Awards and Nominations: Winner, Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2008 – Best Screenplay (Short Film) Winner, Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2008 – Best Short Film Winner, Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Fest. 2009 – Audience Award Winner, Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Fest. 2009 – Press Award Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Short Film Winner, Pusan Int’l Film Festival 2008 – Sonje Awards
Synopsis: Andong is poor 6-year-old boy with the obsession of getting 20 pesos to help him achieve his dreams.
Serbis, 1h 15min Director: Brillante Mendoza, 2008 Cast: Gina Pareño, Jacklyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Coco Martin, Kristoffer King, Dan Alvaro, Mercedes Cabral, Roxanne Jordan
Awards and Nominations: Winner, Asian Film Awards 2009 – Best Sup. Actress (Gina Pareño) Nominated, Cannes Film Festival 2008 – Golden Palm Nominated, Asian Film Awards 2009 – Best Director Nominated, Asia FIlm Awards 2009 – Best Sup. Actress (Jacklyn Jose) Winner, Bankok Int’l Film Festival 2008 – Golden Kinnaree Awards Nominated, FAP Awards 2009 – Best Production Design Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Cinematography Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Direction Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Picture Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Production Design Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Actress (Jacklyn Jose) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Actress (Gina Pareño) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Editing Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Screenplay Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 -Best Sound Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2009 – Best Sup. Actor (Julio Diaz)
Synopsis: The Pineda family operates a run-down movie house in a city in the province, which shows dated sexy double-feature films. The family has taken up actual residence in the old building as well. The matriarch Nanay Flor, her daughter Nayda, son-in-law Lando and adopted daughter Jewel take turns manning the ticket booth and the canteen. Nanay Flor had filed a bigamy case against her estranged husband and is attending the court hearing today when, after a number of years, the decision will be finally handed down. It is within the context that the story unfolds.
Awards and Nominations: Winner, Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival 2006 – Best Director – Local Winner, Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival 2006 – Best Picture – Local Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Actress (Jonalyn Ablong) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Cinematography Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Direction Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Music Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Picture Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Production Design Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Screenplay Winner, Torino Int’l Festival of Young Cinema 2006 – CinemAwenire Award
Synopsis:2004 Presidential Election. Jonalyn, a 13-year old Aeta, fresh from her elementary graduation rites, teaches middle-aged and elderly Aetas to read and write, enabling them to cast their votes for the upcoming election. To her dismay, her grandfather prefers to hunt wild boar to feed every member of the Aeta community, thus missing his chance to exercise his birth right. Months later, the result of that exercise is put to suspicion because of the alleged rampant cheating. Apologies are said for lapse of judgment yet nothing has come out of it to-date.
para mi comentario personal:
“I have a copy pf this film but I haven’t seen this one yet.”
Awards and Nominations: Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Short Film Winner, Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2006 – Best Director for Short Film
Synopsis:Putot (Visayan for “small”) is the heartfelt story of a young boy growing up at a squatter colony by the sea.
para mi comentario personal:
“They said it’s good.\ but I was not able to catch it. Too bad”
Masahista,1h 16min Director: Brillante Mendoza, 2005 Cast:Coco Martin, Jacklyn Jose, Allan Paule, Katherine Luna, Paolo Rivero, Kristoffer King
Awards and Nominations: Winner, Brisbane Int’l Film Festival 2006 – Interfaith Award Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2006 – Best Sup. Actor (Kristoffer King) Nominated, FAP Awards 2006 – Best Screenplay Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2006 – Best Cinemetography Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2006 – Best Production Design Winner, Locarno Int’l Film Festival 2007 – Golden Leopard – Video Winner, Torino int’l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2006 – Audience Award Winner, Young Critics Circle 2006 – Best Achievement in Film Editing Winner, Young Critics Circle 2006 – Best Film Winner, Young Critics Circle 2006 – Best Supporting Actor (Coco Martin) Winner, Young Critics Circle 2006 – Best Screenplay Winner, Young Critics Circle 2006 – Best Achievement in Cinematography and Visual Design Winner, Young Critics Circle 2006 – Best Achievement in Sound & Aural Orchestration
Synopsis:Masahista is a story about a young masseur named Iliac (played by Coco Martin) who caters to gay clientele. In here, sex is an immediate consequence of massage. One ordinary night, a gay writer (Alan Paule) becomes Iliac’s first customer of the day. But once outside the parlor, his current gf (Katherine Luna), a bar girl who works in Japan, asserts her sexual dominion over him.
Kaleldo,1h 15min Director: Brillante Mendoza, 2006 Cast:Johnny Delgado, Cherry Pie Picache, Angel Aquino, Juliana Palermo, Allan Paule, Criselda Volks, Lauren Novero, Miguel Faustmann, Liza Lorena, Rita Magdalena, Coco Martin
Awards and Nominations: Winner, Durban Int’l Film Festival 2007 – Best Actress (Cherry Pie Picache) Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Actor (Jhonny Delgado) Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Actress (Cherrie Pie Picache) Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Art Direction Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Cinematography Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Director Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Editing Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Picture
Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Story Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Sup. Actor (Allan Paule) Nominated, FAMAS Awards 2007 – Best Theme Song Nominated, FAP Awards 2007 – Best Director Nominated, FAP Awards 2007 – Best Picture Nominated, FAP Awards 2007 – Best Production Design Nominated, FAP Awards 2007 – Best Screenplay Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Actress (Angel Aquino) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Actress (Cherrie Pie Picache) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Cinematography Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Direction Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Editing Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Music Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Picture Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Production Design Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Best Screenplay Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Sound Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Sup. Actor (Lauren Novero) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2007 – Best Sup. Actor (Allan Paule) Winner, Jeonju Film Festival 2007 – Netpac Award
Synopsis:Kaleldo is a Pampango word that means “summer.” The story however isn’t limited to this hot season but stretches a couple of years and covers both wet and dry seasons. It gives a glimpse of the colorful if quaint Holy Week rituals in Pampanga that should be a hit among foreigners in international film festivals.
para mi comentario personal:
“Funny, they said it’s good, but I couldn’t make a comment yet because haven’t seen this one yet.”
9th Floor Director: Anna Isabelle Matutina, 2004 Cast: Rose de Leon, Kris Lacaba, Betchie Escanda, Alvy Cordero
Awards and Nominations In Competition, Creteil Int’l Women’s Film Festival 2006 – France In Competition, Malescorto Int’l Film Festival 2006 – Italy In Competition, 6th Int’l Women’s Film Festival 2006 – Philippines Official Selection, Jakarta Slingshorts 2006 – Indonesia Official Selection, Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival 2005 – Philippines Official Selection, Pelikula at Lipunan Film Festival 2005 – Philippines 3rd Best Short Film, 19th Gawad CCP 2007 – Alternatibong Pelikula at Bidyo – Philippines
Awards and Nominations: Winner, FAMAS Awards 2004 – Best Special Effects Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Music Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Picture Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Production Design Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Actor (Kristoffer King) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Actress (Katherine Luna) Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Cinematography Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Direction Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Editing Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Screenplay Nominated, Gawad Urian Awards 2004 – Best Sound Winner, Young Critics Circle 2204 – Best Film Nominated, Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival 2004 – Lino Brocka Award Winner, Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival 2004 – Best Actress (Katherine Luna) Wnner, Cinefan Festival of Asian & Arab Cinemas 2004 – Best Actress (Katherine Luna)
Synopsis: a moving Filipino drama about the squalor and poverty of inner city life in the Philippines.
