13 posts tagged “movies”
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.
Wow again. Talk about wowness!
Aureaus Solito is trailblazing in worldwide film festivals, at great speed for a fresh filmmaker, having earned the distinction of "an openly gay Palawano islander." This curious label for a Filipino director lands him again in the spotlight.
His second film, "Tuli," a recent groundbreaking work, lands in Sundance's "Spectrum" section this year. It won the The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) festival award in the recently concluded Berlin Film Festival.
Truth is stranger than fiction. The ridiculous and out-and-out idiocy of the Movie & TV Classification Board (MTRCB), in our country, has marked "Tuli" with an X-rating due to its brief lesbian kissing scenes. When will they ever grow up? MTRCB paints a disparaging portrait of how pathetic its "censorship board" (and not a classification board) is. It is a shot to the foot. It calls for a drastic change. Ergo, it must be CENSORED, albeit, indispensable, it must be CUT or even DISSOLVED. Fast!
Read Ruben V. Nepales' ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD: Sundance taps Pinoy filmmaker as speaker in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Okay where do I begin? Give it up to this guy!
Little did I know that the son of a famous, award-winning surgeon here in Cebu City, who would usually come to visit his photographer friend on lazy afternoons (where I do graphic designs for this famous photographer), for a quick respite from his 15-blade (HE IS A SURGEON who dabbles into PHOTOGRAPHY for crying out loud!) and would intensely share ideas with me on Photoshop is ...
Paolo Dy, a Cebuano, who is making headlines now:
Filipino cinematographer enters Spielberg show for filmmakers.
ON THE LOT
From Mark Burnett, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television, ON THE LOT affords aspiring filmmakers the opportunity of a lifetime: a $1-million DreamWorks development deal. Over the season, the 16 filmmakers will produce short films in every genre every week and the viewers will vote on who gets eliminated. The show will premiere with a one-hour auditions episode on Wednesday, May 16.
Watch Mr. Dy's 5-minute, chilling short film, "QWERTY" at http://films.thelot.com/films/19175. The ending is a killer, really! ALL-OUT votes to him, now!
"QWERTY" is well conceptualised. It gives you the utter thrill, what's-with-the-title paradox. Paolo Dy's compact narrative is engaging and one that sends spinal shivers, too, for such a short. The lighting is definitely superb, the acting is flat-out serious and near-perfect. The ending is a real killer, you'll never know it coming. It sure beat the hell out of me.
xxx
SPOILER ALERT! (Do not read below if you haven't seen the film yet)
Paolo reveals his "amazing trick" of the ending (no guys, it isn't CG!):"We shot a photo, cut it up into small pieces, and used a program to convert each piece into an ASCII-art image. Then we printed out each piece and put everything together. 400 pages!" He laughs.
It is a brilliant idea! See for yourself.
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Paolo Dy. Photo Credit: http://community.thelot.com/profiles/profile.aspx?un=paolody
From acclaimed director, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, comes Queen Raquela. This is a searing and enigmatic docu-drama about a prostitute ladyboy's endless search on life and the passions it brings. Raquela, a poor, street smart ladyboy dreams of making it to Paris in search for love and acceptance, but fate sends her, instead, in Iceland -- working in a fish factory. Shot in Cebu City, Paris and Iceland. Watch the trailer.
Balay Dakû - The first Ilonggo full-length independent digital movie.
After several years of living in Metro Manila, Julio, the youngest son of the Gonzalez family, returns for vacation in his home of Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Accompanying him is his Iloilo born and Metro Manila lived wife, Stella.
Upon their arrival in Bacolod, everything seems to be normal and routine. Julio reunites with his widowed mother Inday Carmen, his elder brother Boy, and his old friend Isabela. He introduces Stella to all of them.
As the days and weeks progress, things start to turn sour and frustrating as old and unresolved personal issues, that Julio left behind, start to creep back into their lives. Stella is left to adjust herself to this different environment and people, as they in turn try to adjust to her liberated ways.
Emotional undercurrents swirl. Strains on relationships between the family members slowly start to reveal themselves, and finally come to a boil.
At last, after five times with a bete noire from the Oscars, he got his trophy for "The Departed." It won best picture, best adapted screenplay and best film editing at the 79th Annual Academy Awards held on Sunday; total of four Oscars. (see the full list of Oscar Winners).
It's high time for him, after watching the whole weight of such agonizing wait.
