CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVERSHORTS WINNERS!
Open Category WINNER - Jose Marquez Basa
AMPO
Student Category 1st - Renei Dimla
ANOMI
2nd - Juan Manuel Alcarazaren
ULTRA
3rd - Mark Sherwin Maestro
PUBLICO MACATA (PUBLIC POET)
Chosen by our 5 team Jury.MOV
ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO
Rolando B. Tolentino is an associate for fiction of the UP Institute for Creative Writing. He is a faculty member of the UP Film Institute. He is the founding chair of Katha, the fictionists group in Filipino, and is a member of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino and the Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND-UP.) He has authored and co-edited articles and books on Philippine cinema and popular culture.
GERTJAN ZUILHOF
Gertjan Zuilhof (1955) was educated as an art master and finished his studies of Art History in Leiden (the town the young Rembrandt left for Amsterdam). Wrote film criticism for the cinema monthly Skrien and the cultural-politcal weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. Is International Film Festival Rotterdam programmer for Asia and thematic sidebars such as SEA Eyes (2005) and White Light (2006).
JASON SANDERS
Jason Sanders is a writer and researcher for the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. A graduate of New York University, he also writes for Filmmaker Magazine, Cinema Scope, International Documentary and film festivals around the United States, including San Francisco, New York, Miami and Seattle.
OLAF MÖLLER
Olaf Möller is a Cologne-born and -based film critic, writer and curator. He is the European Editor of Film Comment magazine (New York).
PAOLO BERTOLIN
Paolo Bertolin (1976) was the first Italian to be admitted to the Young Film Critics Traineeship Project at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. After spending an academic year at the University of California (Berkeley) and a summer semester at the Korea University of Seoul, he has worked as a film critic and reporter, focusing prevalently on films from East and South-East Asia . He has published many articles in Italian (il manifesto, Cineforum, Panoramiche, Duellanti) and international (The Korea Times, Senses of Cinema, Cinemaya, The Jakarta Post, Positif) newspapers and magazines. He has collaborated, among others, with the Semaine de la Critique of the Cannes Film Festival, the Turin International Film Festival and the Far East Film Festival in Udine (Italy). He is currently a member of the selecting committee of Venice International Film Festival.
About .MOV
.MOV (pronounced “dot-mov”), the first digital filmfest in the Philippines which jumpstarted the digital revolution in the country back in 2002, will have its third edition in Robinsons Galleria Cinema from September 30 to October 7, 2008. Parallel screenings in the cities of Bacolod , and Iloilo will be held from September 24 to October 7.
For group screenings, workshops, tickets and other related inquiries and information, contact dotmov@gmail. com, bien@bannedmoviespilipinas.com, and visit www.movfest. com.
The 3rd .MOV International Digital Film Festival is presented by Filmless Films in cooperation with Robinsons Movieworld, Indiesine, Parco, Geiser Maclang, Mogwai, Click the City, Jam 88.3, Terno Recordings, Dakila, Video 48, FHM, LVN, NU, RX, Green Papaya, MTV, Backdoor Ventures, Absurd Republic, Studio 23, Dupe, Max's, Burger King, Banned Movies Pilipinas.