"TAMBOLISTA"

This year's Jecheon International Music and Film Festival (JIMFF) exhibited a Filipino film from the Cinema One Originals, Adolf Alix's "Tambolista" ("Drumbeat") featuring Jiro Manio, Sid Lucero, Coco Martin, Anita Linda, Fonz Deza, Ricky Davao, and Susan Africa. The festival ran from Aug. 14 to 19, 2008 at its cozy and scenic host city, Jecheon, located in Chungcheongbuk province in central Korea. Jecheon is most famous for the Cheongpung-ho (Cheongpung Lake), a lake that captivates tourists with natural beauty that is reminiscent of traditional Korean landscape paintings.

The "Music Shorts on Track" section of the festival also featured the short film entitled "Three Boys" starring Marc Abaya, Ping Medina, and Yan Yuzon. This Philippine-Hong Kong production was directed by Leung Ming-Kai and produced by Marie Jamora.

Launched in 2005, JIMFF has become an international celebration of film set in the beautiful landscapes of Jecheon City – with remarkable music shared and enjoyed by people of varying musical tastes. For this year's festival, it opened a number of theaters, special spaces, film camera and music poster exhibits, street performances, street mimes, dance parties, concerts, a robot-themed park, a special moving concert on a truck, and various events for film professionals, filmmakers, composers, and musicians all over the world. It catered to the audience's thirst for musicals, music-inspired features, and music documentaries.

There were various programs for cinephiles including a hand-printing installation ceremony (an event where the hand-printed copperplate of the awardee of last year's Jecheon Film Music Award was installed at the fountain of the Street of Culture), the Jecheon Special Talk (a free talk between audiences and the masters of film and film music), and Cinema Music Live (a cine-music ensemble composed of weekend concerts and street screenings). There were a number of musical performances staged outdoors along the shores of Cheongpung Lake while highlighting music films in each specialized program. The festival also conducted the Jecheon Film Music Academy, an educational program for young and promising filmmakers, musicians, and composers specializing in film music. The festival also inaugurated the international competition section "World Music Film Today" which presented various music films all over the world. Other sections highlighted the varying aspects of "music" cinema and the retrospectives of musicals of yesteryears.

SOURCE:
Pinoy Films at Korean Film Fest
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By: Rianne Hill Soriano YEHEY! Contributors
1 September 2008 8:40 AM