CELEBRATED Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza will head the jury of the Asian Feature Film Competition of the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), which reels off
Leave it to maverick film auteur Brillante “Dante” Mendoza to take the path less traveled in creating a café and dining experience.
The spotlight is on the 2015 French Film Festival which runs June 3-9 at Greenbelt 3 Ayala Malls, and BGC.
Sinag Maynila, the country’s newest independent film festival, showcases quality and thought-provoking movies from young, non-mainstream Filipino filmmakers from March 18-24 at selected SM Cinemas.
Fifty-seven artists from different fields of arts will be honored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through the Ani ng Dangal Awards at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila on Feb 2.
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (Teco) hosted a welcome event for visiting Taiwanese-American filmmaker Ang Lee at the SM Aura Premier.
I am reading Po Bronson’s “What Should I Do with My Life?” It consists of inspirational real-life stories of people, old and young, who have asked themselves the question and taken a second career and shifted to another vocation. Originally published in 2005, the new edition has nine new profiles. The book inspires readers to find their own unique voice, their own identity.
Brillante Mendoza recreates compellingly the horrors of the 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapping in “Captive,” perhaps the most forthright movie made yet on the Muslim Mindanao problem. Freely drawing from Gracia Burnham’s 2003 book, “In the Presence of My Enemies,” which details the 377-day ordeal that the Protestant missionary and her husband Martin suffered at the hands of the Abu Sayyaf, the 2009 Cannes Film Festival best director weaves a fictional account of the infamous abduction that has, however, the tug and horror of the real thing. The result is the most realistic cinematic treatment yet of Muslim terrorism.
You will be captivated by “Captive.” Based on the Dos Palmas kidnappings by the Abu Sayyaf in 2001, Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s film stars French actress Isabelle Huppert as a kidnapped social worker and Filipino actors Ronnie Lazaro, Raymond Bagatsing, Sid Lucero, Mercedes Cabral, Angel Aquino, Maria Isabel Lopez and Mon Confiado, among others.
Time for an honest appraisal. Let’s pause from all this jingoism, put things in their proper places, and call a spade a spade. This: Can
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