7 posts tagged “films”
IndieSugbu proudly presents its maiden offering: "IGSOON" (The Sister). It can now be viewed at this link. A follow up teaser trailer of our next short film, "Kilum" is shown right after the end credits.
ENJOY! (Comments are appreciated)
Daghang Salamat,
Clee Andro
email: cineclee (at) gmail (d0t) com
Want to star in a horror indie short film?
AUDITIONS EXTENDED THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 21! (2nd Batch Casting Call).
Where: Alejandro's Café (Back of Cebu Doctor's Hospital, along Don Jose Avila St. Capitol Site, Cebu City)
Time: 2PM
Requirements:
> 1 page personal biography (include acting experiences if you have) + 5 x 7in. recent colored headshot.
> 30 seconds - 1 minute monologue piece of your choice.
Succeeding Saturdays and Sundays are Shooting Dates/Production Creative Meets.
Production Wrap: End of May (Tentative)
THE DISTURBERS
Plot outline:
When a person dies, an evil entity steals and inhabits his soul immediately. In death, their malevolence reunite, refusing to leave our physical realms. One night, this sinister and shivering account was captured on amateur video, in a sleepy, dark lonely highway of Cebu City, Philippines.
Contact details: Clee Villasor | cineclee@gmail.com | +63 928 332 1887
Production blog: http://clee.vox.com
WE NEED...
A CAST: ranging from 10-15 yrs old (boys), 19-30ish (male & female), and 50-60something years old (male & female).
PRODUCTION:
Production Manager
Production Designer
Movie Stills Photographer
Secretariat
Technical crews
I feel tepid... Oh-my-gawd, I am burning. Ok, enough irony.
Because I am fucked up with mad deadlines called, WORK* this week, a better way to unwind, probably, is to view My Own Private I-don't-know-how-to-call-it World Film Festival (this weekend).
Opening film: Joon-ho Bong's The Host (South Korea)
Glenn Standring's Perfect Creature (New Zealand)
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima (USA)
Richard Eyre's Notes On A Scandal (United Kingdom)
Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower (China)
Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (United Kingdom)
Closing Film: Aureaus Solito's Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (Philippines)
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* A.k.a. Orc! Your Daily Hideous called, "The Grind." A monster that hands taxable cash. The equally conniving wallet doesn't help much too. It's going head-over-heels on the word, "Sale."
Say what? WHAT?
WOHOOOOOOOO!
Oh yeah! After chasing almost two decades for the perfect sequel script, Indiana Jones 4 production goes greenlight this June!
Guess who the leading lady is? Cate Blanchett!
Need spoiler preview of the screenplay? Click here.
Jérémy Segay, a member of the selection committee for the Directors’ Fortnight at the festival at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, is in town (Metro Manila) to scout for Filipino movies to be included this May.
I hope there are, or at least, one Cannes-worthy Filipino film out there. Pretty please.
Earlier, about an hour ago, I was running neck and neck with... myself and time just to grab hold of this controversial skin-flick, "Shortbus," from my favorite suking pirata in Fuente Circle. Now, I know nothing of this except that it's something of an orgy delight exploring the humanity of sexuality. And thank God, I am not tempted to read whatever reviews NOW, till I get to feast my eyes on this tonight!
I asked the timid "dvd-girl" there to scan the copy for me, in her suspended tv, if it's a "dvd." Woooops. She can't help it: she QUICKLY presses the FORWARD button like crazy, because the fucking scenes just won't stop really!
Did I just read it? Shit! John Cameron Mitchell! That "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" director is pushing this hot erotic button on me now.
A short history of the decline of the Visayan movie industry. Will there be hopes of its revival?
1902 - cinema came to Cebu when the Cinematografo Electro-Optico Luminoso Walgrah was set up by one Pedro Alario in a warehouse on Magallanes St.
1910 - Cebu's oldest playhouse (Teatro Junquera established in 1895 on Colon Street) came to be more of a cinemahouse than a playhouse.
1911 - Cine Ideal was built, a structure particularly built for movie viewing.
1922 - Cine Auditorium was built, with a capacity for 10,000 people.
1922 to 1923 - the year Visayan movie making started. A group of Cebuanos collaborated to make, the first Cebuano full-length silent movie.
1938 - the first talking motion picture in Cebuano was produced, called Bertoldo-Balodoy.
1940 - the second movie, Gugmang Talagsaon, was released, co-directed by Fernando Alfon and S. Alvarez Villarino.
WW II - the third movie, Florentino Borromeo's Bulak sa Lunangan was in production when the WW II broke out, and thus, was never finished.
November 1947 - the movie Sa Kabukiran was premiered in Cebu's Liberty Theater. Manuel P. Velez, a well-known Cebuano composer, helped produce the movie. He was the musical director while his daughter, Lilian Velez, was the movie's star.
1949 - Velez linked up with local businessman and organized Star Pictures Production Corporation. The company produced its first film, Buenaventura Rodriguez's Luha Sa Kalipay , which opened in Vision Theater on December 28, 1949. It had a Cebuano cast led by Bert Nombrado and Esterlina (Ester Colina).
1950s - the heyday of the Visayan film industry. Films were made by such outfits as Azucena Pictures, Mutya Productions, Antingan Pictures, VisMin Productions, Vista Films, and Adelpha Pictures. The industry produced such notable screenwriter-directors as Piux Kabahar, Fernando Alfon, Natalio Bacalso, S. Alvarez Villarino, and Leoux Juezan. It was also a time for the rising of such stars as Mat Ranillo Jr., Gloria Sevilla, Esterlina, Bert Nombrado, Mario Palacio, Virgie Solis, Caridad Sanchez, Danilo Nuñez, and comedian Arcadio Roma. There were around 80 Cebuano movies produced between 1947 and 1960, an average of some six new pictures a year.
1950 - Princesa sa Tawi-Tawi, which starred Rudy Robles, was produced with English subtitles with an eye for the foreign market.
1955 - Salingsing sa Kasakit won a Best Picture nomination and a Best Child Actor award for Undo Juezan in the FAMAS competitions. This movie was also dubbed in Tagalog for wider distribution.
1960 - the beginning of the Cebuano movie industry's decline.
1969 - Badlis sa Kinabuhi, a Cebuano film produced by a Tagalog director, Leroy Salvador. It won the Best Actress award for Gloria Sevilla in both the FAMAS and the 16 th Asian Film Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. The film was also chosen as the Best Black and White Film in Jakarta and was entered in the Berlin Film Festival of 1969.
2004 - Panaghoy sa Suba (Call of the River) is produced, directed and starred by Filipino actor Cesar Montano. It features Filipino actors Juliana Palermo, Jackie Woo, Phil Anthony, Caridad Sanchez, Joel Torre, Daria Ramirez, Ronnie Lazaro, Suzette Ranillo, Rommel Montano, Dr. Warfe Engracia, Ramon Villanueva, Chelo Espina, Flora Gasser, Disi Alba and Rebecca Lusterio.
It is an epic story set during the American Occupation (1942) and the Japanese Occupation (1945), shot amidst the virgin splendor of the island province of Bohol, Philippines mostly along and around the Loboc River which plays a significant role in the story. It is a mixture of action, drama, romance, and history.
The film is Cesar Montano's directorial debut with an almost entirely Visayan cast, and perhaps the biggest film ever to be shot in its entirety in the Visayas. The film, intended for both national and international exhibition, boldly used Visayan as the main language.
It was given an "A" rating by the Cinema Evaluation Board or CEB of the Film Development Council of the Philippines and was CM Films' entry to the 2004 Metro Manila Film Festival. The CEB described Cesar Montano's direction as "meticulous but light-handed." It turned "a somewhat rambling and slow screenplay into a poetic, sometimes even magical, current of silent struggle and survival."
The Call of the River is a multiple award-winner. It has bagged Second Best Picture (to Mano Po 3), Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, Gatpuno Villegas Cultural Award at the Metro Manila Film Festival, 2004; and Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress at Gawad Suri Awards, Manila, 2005.
Sources: www.ngkhai.com & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
