LGBT Films @ Cinekatipunan | Mag:net Cafe

CineKatipunan @ Mag:net Café
Thursday, 14 December
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Night
5:30 - 6:30 PM

Mark dela Cruz: MISTERYO NG HAPIS
(2006/Narrative/ 15 mins)

A father waiting for forgiveness…
A son asking for acceptance…
… And a past that binds them two.

Filming your own life is a very hard thing to do. It
takes a lot of courage and determination in doing such
a film. For me, I see it as reel versus real: inside
the reel is the reality of life. And I am very much
afraid on the question of how will I be able to
convince my audience that what is inside the reel is
actually real. Sometimes there could be painful past
that can never be easily forgotten due to the big scar
it had left. And only time knows when it would totally
heal. Packed with much courage and determination, here
it is… an emotional story about a person going on a
dilemma in trying to heal his never forgotten past.
Forgiveness and Acceptance. Matriarchy and Patriarchy.
Sorrows and Joys.

Official entry to the 8th Cinemanila International
Film Festival - Short film Competition
Official selection in the Jakarta Slingshort Film
Festival in Jakarta
Official entry in the PBO DIGITALES Short film
Competition
2nd Place in PBO DIGITALES Short film Competition
Viewers Choice award in PBO DIGITALES Short filom
Competition

Mark dela Cruz is a theater actor, writer and an
independent film maker. He studied Film and Audio
Visual Communication at the University of the
Philippines Film Institute. His experimental short
film “Garapon,” about the insanity of choice of a
woman over abortion, won the first prize in the
experimental category at the UP Film and Video
Festival in 2004. His latest short film is “Misteryo
ng Hapis / Sorrowful Mystery,” and was done in one of
the Filipinos native dialect which is Kapampangan. He
is now into pre production in his next short film
entitled “Misteryo ng Lualhati / Glorious Mystery.” He
is working right now as an assistant director to US
Based American director Redd Ochoa who is making his
independent film "Baliw" that stars Joel Torre, Jaime
Fabregas, and Ryan Eigenmann.

Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo: BABAE
(2004/Digital/ Narrative/ 20 mins)

BABAE is a coming of age story of two women who grew
up together in the city slum community beside railroad
tracks. They become best friends during childhood,
shared dreams during teenage years and eventually
started a family during adulthood when a child
accidentally entered their lives. Real Stories of
Women and a Man were added to give this color to this
black and white film A mixture of Drama, Comedy,
Musical and Fantasy that will surely touch the Pinoy
Heart in You.

Best Direction, Short film category, Cinemalaya
Independent Film Festival 2005.

Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo received her Certificate
course in Theater Arts at the University of the
Philippines, Diliman QC. She did many films,
commercials, and theater works as a director,
promotion manager and an actor. She took up advanced
directing in UP Diliman and had work for a year as a
storyteller for "Adarna" books, and Japan Foundation.
She is a member of Dulaang UP, Tanghalang Pilipino and
other prestigious theater companies in Metro Manila.

Reposted from
http://www.culturalcenter.gov.ph/cinemalaya-babae.htm

Paolo Villaluna: PALUGID
(2000/16 mm/Documentary/ 18 mins)

A striking sequence of shiny white urinals in a public
toilet opens the film. The filmmaker’s monologue tells
the personal story of his first sexual experience with
a stranger at 14, and the loneliness of looking for
sex in the margins of society as a gay man. Shot on
16mm, the film uses optical effects and a gliding
camera to convey emotional images of rushing clouds in
the wind and passing night traffic.

Best Short Film, 24th Gawad Urian; 2nd Prize for
Documentary (Film) at the 2000 Gawad CCP Para sa
Alternatibong Pelikula at Video; Audience Award
EKsperimento International Film Festival; 1st runner
up in the 2001 Kodak International Short Film
Competition.

Paolo Villaluna started his roots in theater, acting
and directing several theater productions before
joining Mowelfund's Animation workshop in 1996 and
Documentary Workshop in 2000. He has worked as
assistant director in Nick Deocampo's "Mother Ignacia"
(1998,) "Pedrong Palad" (2000,) "Edades" (2004) and
National Artist Eddie Romero's "Faces of Love" (2006.)
His first documentary, "Palugid" (Margin) won the Best
Short Film plum in the 24th Gawad Urian, Prize for
Documentary at the 2000 Gawad CCP Para sa
Alternatibong Pelikula at Video, the Audience at
eKsperimento International Film Festival and the 1st
runner up in the 2001 Kodak International Short Film
Competition and has been screened/competed in several
international competitions.

Ms. You Porny: BEHIND THE APPEARANCE
(Cambodia/2006/ Digital/Document ary/7 mins)

Pich Sokchea, 39 years old, is a man, but his
appearance and attitude are that of a woman, and he
carries the identification card with the gender of a
female. Sokchea has long hair, painted nails, wears
women’s clothes and walks like a girl. Because of his
behavior and appearance, Sokchea finds difficulty in
getting a job in Cambodian society. Most Cambodians
discriminate on gays especially like Sokchea.

Ms. You Porny is a female year IV student at
Department of Media and Communication (DMC) at the
Cambodia Communication Institute in Cambodia and will
graduate with a Bachelor’s degree of media management
in May 2006. During her Media management course at DMC
she learned certain subjects such as Research
Methodology, Online Media Research, Interview
Technique, TV and radio script writing. She used to
work for media campaigns at the Women Media Center,
and has worked for Support Children and Young People
Organization (SCY) as a producer and reporter in the
field of Tele magazine that produces stories and
documentaries sponsored by the UNICEF.

(Behind the Appearance synopsis and screening copy
along with Ms. You Porny’s profile courtesy of Libay
Linsangan Cantor)

To be followed by ANG LADLAD Program (6:30-8PM). Free
Admission. Visit www.magnet.com.ph for the complete
December schedule.