I ACTUALLY HAVE FILMS: Raya Martin Screenings This Week

I ACTUALLY HAVE FILMS:
Raya Martin Screenings This Week

ACTUAL FILM #1: ANG ISLA SA DULO NG MUNDO (2004/Digital/ 109 mins)
Raya Martin
Thursday, 7 December
Mag:net Katipunan, 5:30 PM

Best Documentary, .mov International Digital Film Festival 2005

"Flying in from the city, a young director sets his foot on Itbayat island at the northernmost tip of the Phillippines. His camera loosely trails islanders' simple and carefree days." -Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

"22-year old Raya Martin is at the forefront of a resurgent cinematic movement in the Philippines. On the strength of his atmospheric short film "Bakasyon" (The Visit), his feature-length documentary on the Itbayat tribe of Batanes "Ang Isla Sa Dulo ng Mundo" (The Island at the End of the World), and his graduate thesis "Infancia En Las Islas De Filipinas, Sin Fecha." (Childhood In the Philippine Islands, Undated.), he was selected to participate in the 11th edition of the Cannes Cinefondation residency for first and second time filmmakers." -Alexis Tioseco, http://sea-images.asef.org/

Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan, Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM. All films, unless otherwise indicated, have English subtitles. While the film screenings are free, viewers are encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the honoraria of the filmmakers. Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly holding of Live Performances by well-known and emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or email magnetcafekatips@yahoo.com.ph or visit www.magnet.com.ph.

ACTUAL FILM #2: MAICLING PELICULA NAÑG YSAÑG INDIO NACIONAL (O ANG MAHABANG KALUNGKUTAN NG KATAGALUGAN) (2006/35 mm/ 96 mins)
Raya Martin
Saturday, 9 December
UP Film Center, 7 PM
With live music by the UP Guitar Quartet

Best Film, 42nd Pesaro Film Festival 2006

Set in the 1890s brewing revolution of Filipinos against Spain, "Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg indio nacional" is a collection of silent film actualities revolving around an indio, the common man during the colonial times.

"There is no doubt this is the work of a great filmmaker." –Emmanuel Burdeau, Editor-in-chief, Cahiers du Cinéma

"Raya Martin bases his work - without plagiarism - on the earliest forms of filmmaking. In fact, he reinvents silent film." –Gertjan Zuillhof, International Film Festival Rotterdam

"The ninety-six minute film can be described as a conceit in the guise of a dream doubling as a memory told to us as a mystery." –Noel Vera, Cinemaya

"Raya Martin's beautiful paean to the common man, or 'indio,' of the period is a fascinating work that intermittently rewards patience and confirms Martin's place as a talent to watch." –Jay Weissberg, Variety Magazine

"Indio fills in an historical gap. It does so with constant invention and poetic beauty." –Mark Peranson, Cinema Scope
Tickets at Php 50

(Feature film to be preceded by a new short film preview)
Sponsored by the UP Cinema Arts Society. The Cine Veritas Human Rights Film Festival 2006 is a UP Film Institute undertaking with the Office of the UP Diliman Chancellor and the UP Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts as main partners.

University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools)
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmena Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)