SINE CABOLOAN
The independent cinema of the Pangasinan province, PhilippinesScreening Schedule
ANACBANUA (The Child of the Sun), first feature film in the Pangasinan language. Winner of the Digital Lokal Lino Brocka Grand Prize and Best Director Award, 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival 2009.
Upcoming Screenings:
*CINEMALAYA 6: THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2010. July 12, 2010, Monday,
9pm at the CCP Tanghalang Manuel Conde (Dream Theater)
*10th Anniversary of the ULUPAN NA PANSIANSIYAY SALITAN PANGASINAN (August 4, 2010, Wednesday, 1pm and 3pm, Pangasinan State University – Lingayen campus AVR, simultaneous at PSU Bayambang
and PSU San Carlos campuses, Pangasinan, Philippines)
*Colegio San Jose de Alaminos AVR, August 31,2010 Tuesday 10am, Alaminos City, Pangasinan
*8th edition flEXiff 2002-2022, The Newington Armory Sydney Olympic Park NSW Australia.
September 25-26,2010 at 10am to 4pm
*12th Mumbai Film Festival (India), October 22, 2010 Friday 12:45 noon at PVR Cinemas,Juhu / October 23, 2010 Saturday 8PM at Metro Big Cinemas
*8th World Film Festival of Bangkok(Thailand). November 9, 2010 11AM Paragon Cineplex 13 & November 12, 2010 9PM Paragon Cineplex 14
*8th Chennai International Film Festival, December 16, 2010 at 12:30 PM Thursday, Woodlands Symphony Theatre, Chennai City, India
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SURREAL RANDOM MMS TEXTS PARA ED INA, AGUI, TAN KAAMONG YA MAKAKAILIW ED SIKA: GURGURLIS ED BANUA
(Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, A Sister, and a Wife Who Longs for You: Landscape with Figures). A short experimental film using a Pangasinan-language translation of Carlos Bulosan’s poem “Landscape with Figures.” Winner of the Ishmael Bernal Award for Most Outstanding Young Filipino Filmmaker, 10th Cinemanila International Film Festival 2008.
Upcoming Screenings:
*6th Annual South East Asia Cinemas Conference
(July 2010 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
*Filipino Short Films Screening at the Himiko Cafe Art Gallery
(July 16, 2010 Friday in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
*12th International Panorama of Independent Film & Video Makers, October 4, 2010 4pm
at Inteal, #4 Saint Nicholas St., Patras City, Greece
*FACINE 17: the 17th Filipino American Cine Festival, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St.@ Grove St., San Francisco, California, USA. November 20, 2010, Saturday, 10:30-1PM.
*12th Cinemanila International Film Festival Celebrates Ten Years of Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema, 7:30PM December 7, 2010, Cinema B Movieworld Robinsons Galleria, Quezon City,Philippines.
*2011 Human Frames at The Substation Theatre in #45 Armenian St.,Singapore (February 17-18, 8-10pm & February 19-20, 2-8pm).
*“GURGURLIS ED BANUA/LANDSCAPE WITH MEMORIES”, an experimental performance project directed by Indonesia-based Filipino theater director Dennis Gupa. The performance features the prize-winning Pangasinan video art SURREAL RANDOM MMS TEXTS PARA ED INA, AGUI, TAN KAAMONG YA MAKAKAILIW ED SIKA: GURGURLIS ED BANUA. The performance also features the traditional theater forms and the traditional music of Bandung, experimental gamelan music, movement pieces, the poetry of Pangasinan-American labor activist and writer Carlos Bulosan, and the migrant Filipino narratives gathered and developed at Bandung. Show dates: March 24-25, 2011 at the STSI Studio Theater in Bandung, Indonesia.
LAWAS KAN PINABLI (Forever Loved), a new feature-length experimental documentary film (2012).
A neophyte migrant Filipino worker from the Pangasinan province in the northern Philippines arrives at a bustling city in the Middle East searching for his missing wife who first came to the Arab country three years ago. While searching for his wife at the temporary homes, workplaces, and watering holes of fellow Filipino expatriates, he meets eight Filipino migrant workers who share their story of living and survival in a foreign land. Along the journey he meets another lonely foreign worker, a beautiful Malaysian woman whom he has an affair.
Combining fiction and documentary specifically interviews of eight Filipino migrant workers along with voice-over narration of various texts translated in the Pangasinan language – selected passages from the Holy Bible, selected poetry about exile, and selected lines from classical noh plays, the film creates an intimate portrait of the Filipino diaspora in the Middle East. The film’s title “Lawas Kan Pinabli” is based from a popular folk love song in the Pangasinan province with the same title.
Upcoming Screenings:
*February 4, 2012 at the Cinema Is Incomplete. 117-C Anonas Ext.,Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, Philippines.
*February 11, 2012 Saturday 10AM at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ BACOLLYWOOD: CINEMAREHIYON 4. Robinsons Bacolod MovieWorld Cinema 6, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Free Admission.
*February 2012 at the CSI Mall in Dagupan City, Pangasinan, Philippines.
*May 2012 at the Cinema Is Incomplete. 117-C Anonas Ext.,Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, Philippines.
*Filipino film festival at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.#701 Mission Street (at 3rd Street) San Francisco, CA 94103-3138, USA.415.978.ARTS (2787)
