Schedule of screenings: "CINEMAREHIYON: Cinema in the Regions [Binisaya Film Festival]”

CINEMAREHIYON: Cinema in the Regions “Binisaya Film Festival”

University of San Carlos College of Architecture and Fine Arts Theatre

October 5-7, 2012

Friday, 5 October 2012

5p-6.30p – Sabado Sabado

7p-8.3p – Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria

Terya, a simple island girl is about to leave her home to marry a foreigner. Her journey ignites a series of events and introduces certain characters that affect her eventual decision to stay or go. The story takes place in the scenic Olango Island in the midst of the Baliw-Baliw Festival that hold parallel to Terya’s state of mind as she walks towards her destiny.

Jury Prize and Best Musical Score – Cinema One Originals and Junjeu Film Festival (South Korea) Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Director, Best Film – Gawad Urian

9p -10.3p- Di Ingon Nato
“Not like us” or “Di Ingun na’to” is the story of far–flung villagers in a Cebu boondock and how they respond to a zombie infestation. Armed with their old age beliefs and practices, the narrative is a fresh take on the zombie genre and boondock sensibilities.
Best Feature Film – Macabre Film Festival, Mexico

Saturday, 6 October 2012

2p-4pm - Music Video: The Death and Resurrection

2:30 (Screening of local music videos)

4.3p-6p - BINISAYA Short Films in Competition

6.3p – 8p - Walay Tumoy na Punterya

With a detached workmanlike precision, Director Cierlito Tabay dives right into the subculture of the backyard gunmaking industry in Danao, Cebu, eschewing voiceover narration and letting the power of the issue speak for itself. The film effectively depicts a city torn between supporting the craft that it’s been known for (in the process breathing life to its economy) and enforcing the law against loose firearms.

Best Documentary Film – Sining Pambansa Film Festival / Film Development Council of the Philippines

8.30p – 10p – My Paranormal Romance

Merry just wants to focus on her studies to secure her future, discarding romances and relationships as nonsensical distractions. She wants to get in the toughest university in the country, S.H.U (Super Hard University)

But Life throws her a curve-ball in the form of a mystical object that makes Merry a magnet for everything paranormal.

Special Prize (Best Production Design) – Cinema One Originals Film Festival

Sunday, 7 October 2012

9a -10.3a - Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa

The film won Best Picture in this year's Urian Awards, as well as 6 other awards, including Best Actor for Paulo Avelino. A film that mixes dance and poetry by Filipina writers, it tells the story of Marlon (Paulo Avelino) who is enamored by Karen (Jean Garcia), his literature professor. He follows her after class and discovers that she moonlights as a dance teacher and choreographer. To impress her, he asks Dennis (Rocco Nacino), his classmate and Karen’s assistant in the dance studio, to teach him the dances that Karen teaches in her classes before actually enrolling. A unique love triangle, one wherein the point is to share love and not to exclusively own love, ensues.

11a – 12.3p -- The Future of Animation

1p – 2.3p - BINISAYA Short Films in Competition

3p – 4.3p - Regional Short Films in Exhibition

5p – 6.30p - Ang Manok ni San Pedro

Ang Ang Manok ni San Pedro ay isang palabas sa telebisyon sa Pilipinas noong 1977 na ipinalabas sa RPN 9. Isang katangian ng palabas na ito ang pagkakaroon ng nagsasalitang manok na tandang.

7p – 8.30p - Kordero sa Diyos

“Ipa-Binisaya”

 Karong Oktubre 5 – 7, 2012 sa University of San Carlos College of Architecture and Fine Arts (USC-CAFA) Theatre ilunsad ang “CINEMAREHIYON: Cinema in the Regions [Binisaya Film Festival]” kun “Binisaya”.

Kini usa ka flagship nga proyekto sa National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) pinaagi sa NCCinema nga nagsuporta sa pagpasundayag sa mga salida sa mga filmmakers sa nagkalain-lain nga rehiyunal nga film festival.

Sa umaabot nga “Binisaya” naglangkub kini og film competition, film exhibition ug awarding ceremony. Sa film competition atong masaksihan ang mga entries sa short films, documentary ug music video. Abli ang tema, apan gi-awhag nga ang mga submissions maghulagway sa mga naandan natong mga Bisaya.         
                                                                                                    
Ipasundayag usab ang nagkalain-lain nga mga classic ug contemporary Cebuano films sama sa “Manok ni San Pedro”, “My Paranormal Romance” ug “Ang Damgo ni Elueteria”. “Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa”, isip guest-film, motagbaw kanato aron maablihan ang atong pagsabot sa gender-equality.

Ang “Binisaya” karong tuiga una nga “Cinemarehiyon”, sa mubo nga kasinaitan niini. Apan, niadtong Oktubre 30, 2009 sa Turtle’s Nest gi-feature ang “Uwan Init Pista sa Langit”, “Yawyaw” ug “Mga Damgo” isip mga salida sa unang “Binisaya”. Gisundan niadtong December 2 – 3, 2011, isip ika-duha’ng “Binisaya” nga nag-feature og short ug full length films. Ang USC CAFA Theatre nahimong venue niini.

Usa sa mahukmano’ng output sa ika-duha nga “Binisaya” mao ang pagsalida sa “Biyernis Biyernis” (One Day. One City, Seven Stories) usa ka full-length film nga gimugna sa pito ka Cebuano filmmakers. Kini gi-feature sa British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Fast Track og, niadtong Hunyo ning tuiga, gipasalida sa Yerba Buena screening room sa San Francisco, California.

Karong Oktubre 5, ipa-salida ang gi-produce sa mga organizers nga laing full-length film isip featured film sa “Binisaya”.

Lakbay Binisaya

Sa pikas bahin, usa sa importanteng tumong ning maong festival mao ang pagsiguro sa lapad ug lawn nga partisipasyon sa mga manan-away. Kay matud pa ni direktor Lino Brocka, ang mga manan-away o ang katawhan usa sa importanteng hinagiban aron moluntad ang industriya sa pelikula.

Apan moluntad lamang kini, kung ang ilang mga kasinatian, sa bisan unsa nga dimensiyon, mahatagan og visual nga katin-awan aron masabtan. Sa ingon, mapangitaan kini og hinanali ug malungtarong alibyo.
Tipik sa pag-hatag og importansiya sa mga manan-away karong tuiga, gipili nato ang mga estudyante ug kabatan-onan isip mga hurado. Nga kun motan-aw tag mga pelikula sa mga emerging filmmakers, ngano’ng dili kita maka pangita og mga bag-ong film critics?

“Ipa-Binisaya”

Sama sa naandan sa lapad natong mga kaigso-unan nga magpa-binisaya para matambalan ang nagkalain-lai’ng sakit, ang “Binisaya” susama niini, diin ang atong mga kasinati-an ug yangu-ngu, matambalan pinaagi sa pagpasundayag sa mga salida nga naghulagway sa atong mga abunda nga kasinatian nga nagpangita og kabag-uhan.   

Let's Do This Together

The local filmmakers of Cebu will be holding a film festival dubbed as “Binisaya”. “Binisaya” is a film exhibition especially created to present the emerging wave of new Cebuano films to Cebuano audience and at the same time, to create a culture of cinema in Cebu.

  The first “Binisaya” exhibition was held on October 30, 2009 at Turtle’s Nest featuring “Uwan Init Pista sa Langit” “Mga Damgo” and “Yawyaw”. It was then followed on December 2 and 3, 2011 at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture Theater, University of San Carlos and became the first exhibition of Binisaya in a festival featuring short and feature length films from Cebu with guests from Manila and Davao.

“Biyernes Biyernes”, (One Day. One City, Seven Stories) a full-length film made through the collaborative efforts of seven local filmmakers became the featured film. In fact, “Biyernes Biyernes” was featured in BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation’s) Fast Track and was shown at the Yerba Buena screening room in San Francisco , California .

Now comes “Binisaya Film Festival 2012” will be the second exhibition of Binisaya in a festival format featuring short and feature length films from Cebu with guests from Manila, Davao and one foreign film this coming October 5, 6 and 7, 2012.

Binisaya 2012 will start its campus tour through “Lakbay Binisaya 2012” in order to ensure a wider audience, it will start in Ateneo de Davao this coming August 13-14, 2012. 

Submissions to the "CINEMAREHIYON: Cinema in the Regions [Binisaya Film Festival]" must be narrative fiction; 10-20 minutes (including opening/closing credits); dialogue should mainly be in Cebuano; with English subtitles; open theme but preferably should tackle Cebuano life, culture, and experience. 

“Binisaya 2012” is supported/partly funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). Part of the proceeds of the said festival will go to the "Promoting Human Rights in the context of HIV/AIDS" prevention activities of Bisdak Pride, Inc. and will also be used to train emerging indie film makers in Cebu through the Binisaya Movement.
The three day event designed to showcase short films, narrative, documentary and music video from participating universities and colleges in Cebu . 

We expect more than 5,000 Cebuano audience (mostly students). Any information related to the event please do not hesitate to inquire us at  (Smart) 09217862022 (Sun)    0923-872-0288. Or email us at dakyur@yahoo.com or rox@binisaya.org .
Thank you very much and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Binisaya film festival to kick off with campus tours in Davao, Cebu

Cinemarehiyon: Binisaya film festival

Cinemarehiyon calls for participants

69 Days after a 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake

Earthquake

I waited for the debris to fall, the glass to break, the electrical wirings to spark, the alarm to bell, or the water sprinkles to shower us – but they did not. 

Looking at the food served, the soft drink in an 80 percent filled glass, jumped. The table moved a millimeter closer to another table. My heartbeat pumped at its own pace driven by the 30-seconds earthquake. 

Mall goers ran outside of the third level of the structure going to the veranda of Ayala mall fronting the Terraces. I couldn’t count them, but I distinguished one guy (and he distinguished me) wearing a La Salle jacket, we looked at each other figuring out our sense of being. Instead of running, he walked, while looking at me sitting comfortably.  

I remained calm while seeing eye-to-eye at the two senior citizens secured by a wheel-chair, two meters away from me. Leaving behind their belongings, no other customers left, and they ran for dear life -- including the waiters and waitresses. 

Many years ago, when I attended an international conference on occupational health and safety, I experienced the structure moved fast, as if it danced its finale. And I almost gasped my last then when we experienced a quake similar in magnitude.

Then a friend arrived and ate his lunch recalling that he, too, ran for his dear life.  

“Chu na mae”

An hour after the earthquake, I proceeded to Parian to visit my old office, the Visayas Human Development Agency, Inc. (a non-government organization which provides legal aid, education and research to the labor force) to meet long-lost friends. 

Passing through Echavez St., a resident was shot to death in his head and died without even affected by the tsunami scare. He was scared for life. 

Few minutes of staying at Parian, people began shouting “tsunami”… “tsunami”… “tsunami”... My heart trembled again – driven by the false alarm; without even noticing the change of pronunciation, was it “tsunami” or “chu na mae”. 

Looking outside in a three-storey structure, I saw a sea of humanity with all vigor, shouting, running, crying, finding comfort in a direction they don’t know where. Then I went downstairs to check the people and tried to comfort some. 

Indeed I saw some women shouting, “kuya…kuya, naay chu na mae”. I assured them that no tsunami will ever hit us. Comforted by my presence (or was it me comforted by their presence?), while people continued to run for safety, we returned to a direction where people feared. 

We proceeded to a homely comfort at the Good Shepherd Welcome House, Inc. (a drop-in center for prostituted women and children run by the Religious of the Good Shepherd where I currently served as a member of its Advocacy Team) almost seventy meters away from my old-office – without getting wet or washed away by “chu na mae.” 

Then, I realized I forgot to bring my whistle.