Cinema One Originals Movie Huling Balyang Ng Buhi (The Woven Stories
Of The Other)Wins Awards in Germany, France and Major Nominations in
2007 Gawad URIAN.

Young Filipino filmmaker Sherad Anthony Sanchez recently won the One
Future Prize award at the Munich Film Festival in Germany for his
digital movie Huling Balyan ng Buhi (translated in English as The
Woven Stories of the Other) for its international release. It also
bagged the Prix Premiere or The First Film Prize Award in the First
Film and Sound Competition at the recent 18th FID Marseille(Festival
International du Film) or the Marseille Documentary Film Festival in
France. It has also recently won nominations for Best Picture and Best
Director at the 30th Gawad Urian to be held this August.

Chosen from over a hundred submitted competitors , Munich Film
Festival Competition's seven jurors from Europe, Asia, USA and South
America shortlisted the entries to twenty-five (25); choosing
carefully the five nominees. Here's where Sherad's Huling Balyan ng
Buhi came forth as one of the finalists.

With the jury's enthusiasm over the young filmmaker's work, Sherad was
invited to next year's competition already to be a jury member;
henceforth making him the first Pinoy to be a jury in the Munich
Filmfest Competition and also the youngest.

Huling Balyan Ng Buhi is one of the 7 winning independent films in
last year's Second Annual Cinema One Originals of Cinema One, the
Philippines' premiere movie cable channel and one of the strongest
channels of CPI (Creative Programs, Inc.), a subsidiary of ABS-CBN.

This brilliant movie from Davao features Marilyn Roque (who plays the
first balyan), Ronald Arguelles (one of the rebels with problematic
ideological identity) and the people of Arakan Valley, North Cotabato.
Gigi from Arakan Valley is a woman rebel who teaches young comrades
the facets of their struggle as they remain to be in waiting after
they were ambushed. In a nearby village, Junjun and his fellow
soldiers take a rest. He attempts to chance upon a girl he longs for,
but instead encounters a balyan/tagbawian (shaman) in a very
disturbing situation. Somewhere, two kids, Abyan and Busaw, trek the
forest back to their mother. Huling Balyan ng Buhi : O Ang Sinalirap
nga Asoy Nila weaves the tales of rebels in waiting, playful soldiers
at rest and a troubled balyan (village healer) in a very ambiguous
predicament. A quandary that will usher them all to one encounter that
can bring to light the questions of transcendence.

With Cinema One set to celebrate and feature select classic Filipino
movies in its 2nd Annual Kool Pinoy Klassiks on August 1 to 5 at the
SM Megamall Cinema 1, Huling Balyan ng Buhi will also be one of the
main feature films. It will also show in the 2007 Cinemalaya
Independent Film Festival on July 27 Friday at 3:30pm and on July 29
Sunday at 12:45pm at CCP.

Huling Balyan ng Buhi (or The Woven Stories of the Other) is produced
in 2006 by CPI under the Cinema One Originals project.