UE CFAD Short Documentary Wins in New York, Another Premieres in Mumbai

Two documentaries made by UE College of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design (CFAD) students-turned-graduates are competing abroad this month, with one already emerging a winner.

The 13-minute documentary film Yero, directed by CFAD advertising arts graduate John Lanbert D. Rafols, was officially selected as one of the films in competition at the 21 Islands International Short Film Festival in New York, USA. The film narrates the life of two factory workers in a corrugated-iron recycling factory that is hidden from the public world. It reveals the harsh conditions inside the factory, as workers scavengers through metal scraps without safety tools or hazard protections for themselves. Mr. Rafols together with fellow UE CFAD graduates Jay M. Condeno and John Nico S. Nunag, documented the everyday life of these workers to convey their situation.

Yero is the lone representative of the Philippines selected for the third edition of the said festival in New York alongside films from 20 other countries. The festival took place from February 7 to 10, 2019, in the South Bronx, and was curated by filmmaker-media producer Melisa Ramos in partnership with Prime Latino Media, the largest network of Latino multimedia-makers on the East Coast.

On February 12, 2019, it was confirmed that Yero won Best Short Documentary at the NY-based Festival.

Yero had been officially selected in 2018 as part of the 30th Cultural Center of the Philippines: Gawad Alternatibo festival and the 6th Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition in Compostela Valley. The 21 Islands International Short Film Festival is the first international film festival run of Yero and a great opportunity to start the year 2019.

Meanwhile, after the successful festival run of his animated film Maling Akala, UE CFAD graduate Elvin Jay E. Macanlalay has made the documentary How the Beasts Got Hyped, which focuses on the daily routine of “hypebeasts” in Manila. His new, live-action film is vying for the Best Documentary Award at the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival on February 20, 2019, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Yero had been officially selected in 2018 as part of the 30th Cultural Center of the Philippines: Gawad Alternatibo festival and the 6th Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition in Compostela Valley. The 21 Islands International Short Film Festival is the first international film festival run of Yero and a great opportunity to start the year 2019.

Meanwhile, after the successful festival run of his animated film Maling Akala, UE CFAD graduate Elvin Jay E. Macanlalay has made the documentary How the Beasts Got Hyped, which focuses on the daily routine of “hypebeasts” in Manila. His new, live-action film is vying for the Best Documentary Award at the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival on February 20, 2019, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

The film was previously selected as part of the 17th Hyperfest International Student Film Festival in Bucharest, Romania; the Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition or Nabifilmex in Compostela Valley in Davao; and the 30th Gawad CCP Independent Film and Video Festival of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay City, Metro Manila.

Mr. Rafols graduated from the UE CFAD in December 2018, while Mr. Condeno, Mr. Nunag, Mr. Macanlalay, Mr. Marticio and Mr. Sanchez graduated in April 2018. All are Bachelor of Arts, major in Advertising Arts, degree-holders except for Mr. Condeno, who is a Bachelor of Arts, major in Painting graduate.

Their documentary films are their respective final projects in the video production class of mentor Richard Soriano Legaspi, himself a UE CFAD graduate and award-winning writer-director.

Philippine short documentary to premiere in Bucharest

“How the Beast Got Hyped” is a 6-minute documentary that centers on the daily routine of hype-beasts of Manila, which share a mutual interest for street-style fashion. It also exhibits the effects of western aestheticism on how it inspired a ‘culture of aspiration’ and how it became a refuge for the socially unshunned.

The film is officially selected out of hundreds of entries to compete in the 17th Festivalul Studenţesc de Film International – HYPERFEST in Bucharest, Romania this coming November 2 to 11 at Cinema Europa, Municipiul București and Cinema Gloria in Strada Bucovina.

Started in November 2001, by the well know Romanian Actor/Director Geo Saizescu, Hyperfest is one of the most long-lasting international student festivals in Romania. The festival promotes film students from all over the world and facilitates networking between them to support the new generation of filmmakers.

This will be also the international premiere of ‘How the Beast Got Hyped” after being selected in the competition program of Asia’s oldest alternative film festival – the 30th Gawad CCP Independent Film and Video Festival and 6th Edition of Nabifilmex in Nabunturan both in 2018.

The short film was produced by a production team composed of UE CFAD advertising students, Elvin Jay Macanlalay, Bryan Marticio, and Mars Sanchez. The international selection of ‘How the Beast Got Hyped” only validates the storytelling talent of warrior young filmmakers and this is not the first time that a UE CFAD produced film went on to be officially selected either for exhibition or competition program of various international film festivals around the world.

UE CFAD’s “Marangle” wins Best Student Film in La Union

“Marangle” (Farm), an experimental short film directed by UE College of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design (CFAD) alumna Rodmarie Angeline Tabilog, won Best Short Film in the Student Category of the recent Pagwanawanan Film Festival in La Union.

The nine-minute film narrates the life of a farmer who risks everything, including his land, just to have a chance to work abroad and provide a better future for his family.

Tabilog got the support of director of photography Isabelo Bucao, assistant director Rhuva Patiag, writer Gerard Halabaso, production manager Aldric Matthew Manapat, production designer Chelsea Mae Natividad, costume designer Erica Balaan and production staff Cyrill Mustera, Jayson Torres and Kent Santos.

The film was also officially selected as part of the Cinebalu program of the 17th Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival 2017, Sinepiyu Film Festival 2017, Cinesilangan Film Fest and the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ 28th Gawad CCP Independent Film and Video Festival.

Aside from Marangle, another UE entry “Maling Akala: Ang Misteryo ng Unamuno,” an animated film by Elvin Jay Macanlalay and Arvileen Yongzon, was nominated in the same category of the film festival.

Tabilog was extremely delighted upon receiving the news. She is currently attending a one-month internship in Taiwan for filmmaker Richard Soriano Legaspi’s new documentary project. She also screened the film “Marangle” last October 6 at SEAT – South East Asia x Taiwan film colloquium. SEAT is an NGO in Taichung City that promotes the relationship between migrant immigrants and the Taiwan society.

“Marangle” will have a special screening at Brilliant Time Bookstore, Zhonghe Dist., New Taipei City on October 13, 2:30 p.m.

UE CFAD’s “Marangle” wins Best Student Film in La Union

UE CFAD films make it to Pagwanawanan, Nabifilmex festivals

AN experimental video and an animated film from the University of the East College of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design will compete under the student category of the Pagwanawanan Film Festival on September 21 at PUÓN/Alfredo F. Tadiar Library along Ortega Highway in San Fernando, La Union.

Marangle by Angeline Tabilog and Maling Akala: Ang Misteryo ng Unamuno by Elvin Jay Macanlalay and Arvileen Yongzon will vie for the top prize along with three other student films, Halal by Dahren Tagtag (Cebu), Layag by Romsky Chelle Dela Cruz (Pangasinan) and Si Kokak at Ako by Ralph Santos, Vince Basa and Winstone Arradaza (La Union).

The nine-minute film Marangle, which was entirely shot in San Simon, Pampanga, tackles the life of a farmer who risks everything, including his land, just to have an opportunity to work abroad and provide a better future for his family.

A final project for the video production subject under Prof. Richard Legaspi, it competed with other experimental films at Sinepiyu 2017 and was exhibited as part of the Cinebalu program of the 17th Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival in Borneo. It also competed at the 28th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video or Gawad Alternatibo independent film and video festival of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Tabilog got the support of director of photography Isabelo Bucao, assistant director Rhuva Patiag, writer Gerard Halabaso, production manager Aldric Matthew Manapat, production designer Chelsea Mae Natividad, costume designer Erica Balaan and production staff Cyrill Mustera, Jayson Torres and Kent Santos.

Maling Akala, on the other hand, takes on a legendary Philippine mythical creature and a mischievous child as they journey through the woods after a calamity hit their village, Unamuno. Their paths cross and they go on an adventure together. Produced by Piko Productions as a requirement for Prof. Ronwell Bacani’s class, the five-minute animated film was selected as one of the finalists at the Animahenasyon: 11th Philippine Animation Festival, Gawad Alternatibo in 2017 and Recoletos Film Festival last February.

Meanwhile, Maling Akala will also be exhibited as part of the open-air film screenings at Nabifilmex 6 in Compostela Valley along with two UE CFAD documentaries, How the Beasts Got Hyped by Macanlalay, Bryan Marticio and Mars Sanchez and Yero (Corrugated Galvanized Iron) by John Lanbert Rafols, John Nico Nunag and Jay Condeno. They will be shown along with other selected entries at the Nabunturan Municipal Plaza from September 19 to 21.

How the Beasts Got Hyped focuses on the daily routine of hypebeasts, which share a mutual interest for street-style fashion, providing a sense of community for its followers, while Yero shows the life and daily struggles of two factory workers, Armando Bucog and Rowil Galicia, inside a corrugated iron factory. Both documentaries, which were also produced under Legaspi’s video production class like Marangle, previously competed this year at the 30th Gawad Alternatibo.

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UE CFAD films make it to Pagwanawanan, Nabifilmex

 

 

MARANGLE – KotaKinabalu IFF 2017

UE CFAD’s “MARANGLE”, Official Selection CINEBALU – Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival, Malaysia 2017 Borneo’s first and longest-running film festival.

ASWE, Official Selection, 23rd Annual Filipino International Cine Festival!

1:30 pm – TRIP TO HAPPY-FUL: A collection of shorts on finding joy in the now and then:
ASWE [the fine-toothed comb]

A young girl struggles with head lice, school bullying, her self-determination helps her beat the odds.

Directed by Russel Renz Sobrino, written by Josephine Santos (18 min, in Kapampangan with English subtitles, Philippines, 2015) Narrative short.

Tickets for TRIP TO HAPPY-FUL available here

5th CINESILANGAN 2016

UE CFAD Graduate Chosen as Trainee in Asian Film Workshop-Lecture

UE College of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design (CFAD) graduate Camille R. Teves was recently selected as one of two Philippine trainees in the 3rd ASEAN-ROK Film Leaders Incubator (FLY2014) workshop-lecture. The workshop-lecture will start on November 10, 2014 and will run for two weeks in Yangon, Myanmar.

Ms. Teves earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in Advertising Arts degree from the UE CFAD in April 2014. As a UE student, she was also a member of the student organization Buklod Sining. She served as the organization’s Communications Officer in school year 2011-2012 and its Vice President in SY 2012-2013.

Organized by the Asian Film Commissions Network (AFCNet; www.afcnet.org), the Fly Project seeks to “ensure that brilliant young filmmakers will have access to mentors and facilities wherever they live.” The project’s organizers hope that these young filmmakers will be the future of Asian cinema and “become keystones for the advancement of the Asian film industry.”

Ms. Teves is among FLY2014’s 22 trainee-participants, comprised by two participants from each of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries and South Korea.

WINNERS OF 24th CCP ALTERNATIVE FILM & VIDEO TILT NAMED

THE winners of the 24th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video were announced in awarding rites held on November 23, 2012 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Tanghalang Manuel Conde.

 

In the Experimental category, the 1st Prize went to PIKIT SA ALAS-TRES (Sleeping Uncertainties at 3) by Mark Sherwin M. Maestro (UP-Diliman), 2nd prize to UN – by Inshallah P. Montero (De La Salle College of St. Benilde) and 3rd prize to PILIPINAS by Alyssa Suico (UP Film Institute). Honorable mentions went to DESTINASYON by Catherine Luna Capistrano (University of the East – Caloocan) and SA GABI NAHIHIMLAY, NASAAN KA AKING MADALING-ARAW? (On Night’s Sleep, Where are you my Daylight?) by Mark Sherwin Marquez Maestro (UP-Diliman).

 

In the Animation category, the 1st Prize was awarded to MARIANING by Niko Salazar (De La Salle College of St. Benilde) and 2nd Prize to OLI IMPAN by Omar P. Aguilar (Ateneo de Naga University). Two films in this category garnered the 3rd Prize— BULADOR DE CASA (Indoor Kite) by Victor Ian M. Covarrubias (Ateneo de Zamboanga University) and KALEH AT MBAKI by Dennis E. Sebastian (Independent).  Honorable mentions went to BROWNOUT ANIMATION by Christine Joyce Silva (Independent), TULAK-BALA (To Push Away Calamity) by Mary Grace S. Antonio (Ateneo de Zamboanga University) and THE WILLOW by Phoebe Semfuego (Ateneo de Naga University)

 

In the Documentary category, no 1st Prize was awarded.  HAPI LIBING (Happy Living) by Steve Cardona (Independent – Lipa City, Batangas) received 2nd Prize while WALANG HANGGANG BUHAY NI LEONARDO CO by Nannette Matilac (Independent – DocuCinema Media Collective, Inc.) got 3rd Prize.  Honorable mentions went to BALITOK (Gold) by Sheryl Rose Andes (UP Film Institute), PAMUKOT (CAUGHT IN A NET) by Godson Escopete (Independent – TUDLA Productions Group, Inc.) and THE QUIAPO PERSPECTIVE by Inshallah P. Montero (De La Salle College of St. Benilde).  A special citation was given to MISYON SA BUNDOK APO by Jophel Botero Ybiosa (Independent – RCP Productions).

 

In the Short Feature category, the 1st Prize was awarded to SARANGHAE MY TUTOR by Victor Villanueva (Independent – Dreamline Productions) and 2nd Prize to IMIK by Anna Isabelle Matutina (Independent – Digital Cheese).  AU REVOIR PHILIP by Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo (Independent) and MANI by Hubert Tibi (Independent – Shotlist Productions) shared the 3rd Prize.

 

Omar Aguilar’s OLI IMPAN and Villanueva’s SARANGHAE MY TUTOR were named Best Regional Entries while Covarrubias’ BULADOR DE CASA was named the Best Work by/for/on children.

 

The 24th Gawad CCP Para Sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video was held November 20-23, 2012 at the CCP.  A competition for works for both Film and Video formats, it is held in four categories of Short Feature/Narrative, Experimental, Documentary and Animation.

http://culturalcenter.gov.ph/press-room/winners-of-24th-ccp-alternative-film-video-tilt-named/