From Kiri Dalena:

THIS WEEK ON CINEKATIPUNAN
August 13 to 18, 2007

ASIALunes; Sinekalikasan; Teng Magansakan + Adjani Arumpac; David Corpus + Jernil Bautista; Animation Mini Festival Series; UP SILIP

Short films from South East Asia will be feature in Cinekatipunan's weekly AsiaLunes program on August 13, Monday. Sinekalikasan, the monthly environmental film screening program, will commemorate the first anniversary of what is deemed as the largest oil spill in recent Philippine history with a screening of Guimaras: Short Films from the Oil Spill series on August 14, Tuesday. On Wednesday (August 15), Cinekatipunan will feature two young filmmakers who trace their roots to Mindanao in Southern Philippines: Adjani Arumpac and Teng Magansakan. On Thursday, August 16, Cinekatipunan picks David Corpus and Jernil Bautista to show their works. Friday's program on August 17 marks the start of the three-week Animation Mini Festival Series at mag:net, in cooperation with the International Festival of Cinema and Technology (IFCT) and Pinoy Animagination. On Saturday, August 18, UP SILIP tackles the theme of social advocacy through animation in its campus-based filmmakers
program.

Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan, Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:00 PM.
While the film screnings are free, viewers are encouraged to make voluntary contributions for the
honoraria of the featured filmmakers. For questions or comments about Cinekatipunan write to
sinag_haraya@yahoo.com, rock@drilon.com, burning.bulan@gmail.com and lisa.ito@gmail.com.

Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly holding of Live Performaces 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 visit www.magnet.com.ph .

August 13 (Monday)
ASIALunes: South East Asian Program
Presented by Mervin Espina

August 14 (Tuesday)
Sinekalikasan: Short films on GUIMARAS OIL SPILL
in cooperation with the Independent Filmmakers Multi Purpose Cooperative

Sinekalikasan environmental film showing commemorates the first anniversary of what has been called as the largest oil spill in recent history with a screening of GUIMARAS: Short films from the Oil Spill, a project spearheaded by the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative, featuring the works of 16 Filipino filmmakers: Drei Boquiren, Jeck Cogama, Khavn de la Cruz, Wilfred Allen Galila, Rox Lee, Raya Martin, Oscar Nava, Seymour Barros Sanchez, Ann Angala-Shy, Victor Louie Villanueva, JP Carpio, Emman de la Cruz, Kidlat de Guia, Milo Alto Paz, Kidlat Tahimik and Paolo Villaluna.

Sinekalikasan is initiated by Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE). It aims to popularize various environmental and peoples struggles through film screenings in different venues, including alternative art spaces and—in the coming months—schools, and urban and rural communities.

August 15 (Wednesday)
Works by Teng Mangansakan / Adjani Arumpac

Adjani Arumpac: WALAI
WALAI seeks narratives in “places...we tend to feel without history.” It traces the past through four Muslim women's experience of what has happened inside their wrecked home—nostalgia and fear, loss and love, and birth and death. Running time: 1 hour

Gutierrez "Teng" Mangansakan II: ARROWS IN THE WIND
Just when everybody was assuming that the situation in Mindanao was starting to normalize after an 'all-out war' between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front three years earlier, a war erupted, again, on February 2003. It was in Barangay Buliok, the MILF's main camp in Pagalungan, Maguindanao. Among those greatly affected by this war were the children of the neighboring village of Inug-ug who were attending school. As a result of the war, the school was burned down. Classes were disrupted. Graduation that year had to be postponed until it was safe for the children to return to school. Arrows in the Wind recounts the bravery of the children of Inug-ug and their determination to rebuild their dreams. (Director, Writer, Producer: Gutierrez Mangansakan II; Editor: Kitty Bermudez; Music: Geejay Arriola; Additional Sound: Santiago Mangada Puno; Production Assistant: Moises Charles Hollite)

About the Director
Gutierrez Mangansakan II is an essayist, cultural activist and documentary filmmaker from Pagalungan, Maguindanao. He majored in Communication Arts at the Ateneo de Davao University and Art Direction at the Mowelfund Film Institute in Manila. Starting with his first film House under the Crescent Moon, which won Grand Prize at the Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 2001 (and was screened at the 2002 Cinemanila International Film Festival), his documentary films delve exclusively on the various facets of the Bangsamoro struggle in Mindanao. He made his second documentary A Boat in Deep Waters in 2003. Arrows in the Wind is his third documentary. He is currently working on Amir, a full-length documentary on MILF founding chair Salamat Hashim. In 2005, he was named Defender of Cultural Heritage by the Fookien Times Philippines Yearbook for his work in nurturing the rich tradition of his Maguindanaon ancestry.

August 16 (Thursday)
KWERDAS (David Corpuz) and GRAVEYARD SHIFT (Jemil Bautista)

KWERDAS (String)
It is music that both binds and detaches Angel to two of the most important persons in her life:
her mentor who painstakingly teaches her to play the violin despite her disability; and her lover who's been accompanying her in the darkest hours. While we traverse the paths Angel takes, we question ourselves the impact of music that can't be heard.

Written/Directed/Produced by: David Redulfin Corpuz. Cast: Angelica Tolentino, Ann Margaret Bunyi, Bryan Jhonson Lim | Original Music: Achilles Gonzales and Maricor Reyes | Cinematography: Rosendo Concepcion | Editing: David Redulfin Corpuz and Rosendo Concepcion | Casting: David Redulfin Corpuz | Production Design: David Redulfin Corpuz | Art Direction: Stephen Valena and Jomar Mislang | Set Decoration: Jesse Baban | Make-Up: Angelica Tolentino | Poster Design: Michele Lao Baun

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
David Redulfin Corpuz, 21, was a junior taking up Information Technology at an all-boys school, Don Bosco Technical College, when he became interested with filmmaking. He intends to shift course but realized that it might be too late so he decided to stick with BSIT. After earning his degree with honors in 2006, he joined a company to become a programmer, but quit only after a month. He eventually applied to UP Diliman's Master of Arts in Film program and was accepted despite having no background in film production prior to his application. Now an incoming sophomore MA student, he has directed and produced three short films and a music video for the band, Color It Red.

Jernil Bautista: GRAVEYARD SHIFT
University of Makati | TRT 15mins plus obb/cbb
"Mahalaga ang dokumentaryo dahil sumasalamin ito sa mga tunay na kaganapan sa ating kapaligiran. Kasing simple man ng istorya ng magbabalot o ng kartero, o tungkol sa isang batang may malubhang sakit pero nakukuha pang tumingin sa "brighter side of life", o sa masayang pista sa Cebu, lahat ito may isinisigaw na isyu tungkol sa realidad na kinabibilanagan natin. Minsan, masyadong mataas ang tinatanaw natin, samantalang ang kasagutan lang pala sa mga tanong na ipinupukol mo sa langit ay kayang sagutin ng kapwa mo na inaakala mong mangmang at walang kapasidad na maglabas ng opinyong makapagbabago sa buhay at pananaw mo."

Team Profile ng Penny-Wise & pound-Foolish Productions: Graveyard Shift Team

Ako po si Jemil Bautista, isang Senior Broadcast Arts Major sa University of Makati at direktor ng dokumentaryong Graveyard Shift. Kasama ko sa paggawa nito ang mga kaklase kong sina Jay-ar Caber (Soundman), Ariel Alarcon (Videographer), at Ellen Borbolla (Editor). Nagsimula ang adventure ng aming grupo nang sumali kami sa "Ordinary People Workshop". Limang miyembro ang kailangan para makasali rito, apat lang kami. Sakto naman at naghulog ang langit ng isang mayamang nilalang mula sa DLS-CSB sa katauhan ni Raymund Cruz na graduate ng Production Design sa naturang eskwelahan. Siyempre, siya ang ginawa naming producer. Bagamat iba't-iba kami nang katauhan at hilig, nagkakasundo naman kami pagdating sa panonood ng mga pelikula at dokumentaryo. Lubos ang kagalakan namin ng makagawa kami, bilang isang grupo, ng isang dokyu. Siguro, nahanap namin sa isa't-isa ang kalidad ng nilalang na masarap kasama sa mga susunod na produksyong maiisipan naming gawin.

Napili namin si Mang Tolits bilang case study dahil (1) nakilala na namin sya nung gumawa kami ng documentary project sa klase (2) pasok na pasok ang katauhan nya sa hinahanap nang "Ordinary People" Workshop. Sobrang dami ng kwento nang taong ito kaya nakakaaliw talaga. Sa aming palagay, hindi ka puwedeng maging dokumentarista kung control freak ka. Naniniwala kami na ang kahahantungan ng isang dokumentaryo ay nakasalalay sa kwento ng buhay ng tao o pangyayari ng kinukuhaan mo ng bidyo. Kung ipipilit mo ang mga bagay na naisip mong lalabas sa bidyo nung pre-prod nyo, mabibigo ka lang... gumawa ka na lang ng fiction.

Mahalaga ang panonood ng dokumentaryo dahil sumasalamin ito sa mga tunay na kaganapan sa ating kapaligiran. Kasing simple man ng istorya ng magbabalot o ng kartero, o tungkol sa isang batang may malubhang sakit pero nakukuha pang tumingin sa "brighter side of life", o sa masayang pista sa Cebu, lahat ito may isinisigaw na isyu tungkol sa realidad na kinabibilanagan natin. Minsan, masyadong mataas ang tinatanaw natin, samantalang ang kasagutan lang pala sa mga tanong na ipinupukol mo sa langit ay kayang sagutin ng kapwa mo na inaakala mong mangmang at walang kapasidad na maglabas ng opinyong makapagbabago sa buhay at pananaw mo.

Masayang kunan ang buhay ng mga karaniwang tao sa Pilipinas. Sa harap kasi ng kamera lumalabas ang karakter natin na pala-kwento. Sa sobrang diverse ng ating kultura, lumalabas ang mga opinyong pinagtagpi-tagpi ng iba't-ibang impluwensya sa buhay natin. Madalas, mga pulitiko't prominenteng tao ang laman ng telebisyon o mga bidyo. O di kaya'y mga extra ordinaryong kaganapan sa kapaligiran. Wala o di kaya'y sobrang igsi ng puwesto para sa kaisipan ng mga mamamayan na may malaking ginagampanan sa ating lipunan. Ang aming pangkat ay lubos na naimpluwensyahan ng workshop ni Jean-Michel dahil nga sa nabanggit ko sa itaas.
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Ang mahirap sa pagiging student filmmaker ay ang kakulangan sa tatlong P at isang G; Panahon, Pera, Pagkain(sa post-prod) at Gamit. Sobra ang pressure pag kinapos ka, lalo na sa pagkain. Minsan, natutunaw na lang sa shelf ang mga konsepto at ideya na gusto naming i-shoot. Pero, masayang karanasan yun para sa amin- 'ika nga e "learn the hard way". Asteeg!

Ang pinakamagandang natutunan namin sa buhay ni Mang Tolits ay ang pagiging payak. Tamang trabaho, tamang raket, tamang patawa, tamang petiks- yung tipong sakto lang. Bilang estudyante kasi, masyadong matayog ang mga pangarap namin na halos umabot na sa imposible. Samantalang kung tatanggapin mo lang ang iaatas sa'yo ng nasa itaas at pagbubutihin ang iyong gawain, solb ka na.

August 17 (Friday)
Animation Mini Festival Series
Curated by Marisa Cohen, International Festival of Cinema and Technology (IFCT)
and Teta Tulay of Pinoy Animagination

About the IFCT
Since its inception in 2002, the IFCT has held past festival events in ten cities: Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Toronto, Orlando, Brisbane, New York, Sheffield, Quezon City, Phillipines and Paris using many of the world's most prestigious venues for festival events including the CN Tower, Tribeca Theatre, Universal Citywalk Orlando and Fox Studios in Sydney.

Historically, IFCT has screened nearly every imaginable type of film originating on a WIDE VARIETY OF FORMATS ranging from film to digital video. IFCT has emerged as one of the world's fastest growing film festivals. IFCT has overseen over 500 premieres including animations, features, docs, shorts and experimental film. As a non-profit company, IFCT's goal is to find the best undiscovered and overlooked projects and screen them to industry professionals. IFCT volunteers, drawing on industry connections, send award winning projects to agents and distributors for acquisition consideration. From http://www.ifct.org/newifcthistory.html

About Pinoy Animagination
Pinoy Animagination is a collective of animators and art educators, who are dedicated to the promotion of independent & experimental animation in the Philippines. Works by its members have been screened at Annecy, Hiroshima, Berlin, & other major international film festivals. The group has been in existence since the 1990s & traces its roots from the Mowelfund Film Institute.

August 18 (Saturday)
That's Not All, Folks: When Animation Wields Advocacy
Screening of animated films tackling various social issues
UP Sining at Lipunan

UP SILIP is a university-wide organization based in the University of the Philippines-College of Mass Communication (UP-CMC) which aims to affirm the vital role of art in shaping and changing society. Formed in 8 Mar 2003, the group highlights the power of film as the medium where all art forms meet.