Cinemalaya rocks!

Cinemalaya 2008 is now open! Yes! If you missed out on the openning yesternight, no worries, it's a week-long event anyway. :) S and I have already started our Cinemalaya dates with 100 by Chris Martinez, which was simply superb! I say it's this year's Still Life, if you know what I mean. hehe. Well, here's the rest of the competition films along with their schedules. I vow to be able to watch all the full length films since last year, I only missed out on Tukso to complete the list. So, I guess I'll be seeing you at CCP then!

Full Length Films

100 is about a stern, uptight and exacting woman with a terminal illness who tries to accomplish a list of 100 things to do before she dies. Her tasks vary from the simple to the complicated, from the practical to the mundane, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. In the process, she accepts the truth that even if death is something personal, dying never is.

12 July/Sat, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
15 July/Tue, 6:15PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
17 July/Thu, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
17 July/Thu, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
19 July/Sat, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
19 July/Sat, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

Baby Angelo centers on an investigation that ensues when an aborted fetus is found in the dumpster of a run-down apartment complex. The lives of the tenants—a reclusive old man with curious ramblings, a landlord with overzealous thirst for justice and a young couple whose past threatens to unravel their marriage—are suddenly exposed in the hunt for the perpetrator of the baby’s death.

12 July/Sat, 6:15PM,Tanghalang Huseng Batute
13 July/Sun, 3:30PM,Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
15 July/Tue, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
17 July/Thu, 9:00PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

Boses (Voices) is the story of a musician, who regains back his humanity by giving violin lessons to a child of the slums, who, through the instrument, is able to get back his voice from a muted, abused and desensitized existence. This is a story of a wonderful friendship founded on the sublime beauty of music between a violin teacher and his student, a mute seven-year old abused child in a shelter.

13 July/Sun, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
13 July/Sun, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
16 July/Wed, 6:15PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 12:45PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
18 July/Fri, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
19 July/Sat, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)

Brutus tells the tale of two Mangyan children, hired by illegal loggers to smuggle wood from the mountains of Mindoro, as they embark on a dangerous journey to deliver the goods to the lowlands. In the process, they discover a world run by the greed of men, a world governed by ideologies that bring about the armed conflict that plagues the Mindoro highlands, the home of their own people.

13 July/Sun, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
15 July/Tue, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
16 July/Wed, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
19 July/Sat, 6:15PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
20 July/Sun, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)

Concerto is about how, in the last part of World War II, a special piano concert is held in the forests of Davao. In these boondocks, a displaced Filipino family becomes acquainted with a group of Japanese officers, similarly camped nearby. Based on true stories from the director’s family, Ang Concerto celebrates a family whose reverence for life, expressed through their love of music and friendship, can survive even war, and shows how beauty and compassion can grow in even the harshest of situations.

12 July/Sat, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
15 July/Tue, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
16 July/Wed, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
17 July/Thu, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
18 July/Fri, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
19 July/Sat, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)

Huling Pasada follows the creative process of Ruby, a prolific writer, abandoned wife and protective mother. She writes about Mario, a taxi driver and father figure to a street child. As she tries to resolve Mario’s story, she seeks refuge in her own creative output and the line between reality and fiction is blurred. Mario’s past becomes entangled with her own inevitable future.

12 July/Sat, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
13 July/Sun, 6:15PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
15 July/Tue, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
18 July/Fri, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
19 July/Sat, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay, a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject, his own life is affected when he unravels his subject’s hidden life and secret love.

12 July/Sat, 6:15PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
13 July/Sun, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
16 July/Wed, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
17 July/Thu, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
17 July/Thu, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
19 July/Sat, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

My Fake American Accent is a slice-of-life workplace comedy following the lives of technical support call center agents in the span of six months. Speaking with a fake American accent is a prerequisite for the job. This ensemble comedy is an inside look into the maddening, sleep-deprived, caffeine-fuelled lives of those who ply their trade in the call center industry.
13 July/Sun, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
13 July/Sun, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
15 July/Tue, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
18 July/Fri, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
20 July/Sun, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)

Namets by Jay Abello is a colorful celebration of food as well as love, and the love of food above all, which is central to being Negrosanon and being Filipino. It follows the flirtation between Jacko and Cassie, two Negrenses who grew up in Bacolod, and whose lives revolve around food. The film will be shot on location in Negros Occidental and will be primarily in Hiligaynon, the language spoken in that region.

13 July/Sun, 3:30PM (GALA), Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
15 July/Tue, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
16 July/Wed, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
18 July/Fri, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
18 July/Fri, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
19 July/Sat, 12:45PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

Ranchero unfolds in a small provincial jail in the province of Rizal, Philippines. And today is Ricardo’s last day behind bars. He and his close friend Miyong are tasked to cook rations for their inmates. The two friends spent the whole morning talking about Ricardo’s plans when he gets out. After lunch, one of the kitchen knives is missing which called the attention of jail officials. Not only will this delay the ration for the day, but also the freedom Ricardo and Miyong wish for themselves.

12 July/Sat, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
12 July/Sat, 9:00PM (GALA) Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
16 July/Wed, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
17 July/Thu, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
17 July/Thu, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
19 July/Sat, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)

Shorts

Cinemalaya 2008 Shorts Programme A:
Andong by Rommel "Milo" Tolentino is a story about a six-year old boy's obsession, family dynamics, and the real value of a hard-fought twenty pesos.

Ang Ibang Mga Pamilya (The Other Family) by Joel P. Ruiz is about a woman who overcomes the grief of losing her adopted son.

Angan-Angan (Dreams) by Sheron R. Dayoc centers on a mute nine-year-old girl named Satra, whose determination to secure a good education reverberates clearly amid the strictness of her Yakan culture. The Yakan are one of the 13 Moro groups in the Philippines. They mainly reside in Basilan, Mindanao.

Diamante sa Langit (Diamond in the Sky) by Vic Acedillo Jr. is about two brothers' journey to compete in a kite-flying contest. But getting there takes some time. In the end, they face something unexpected and discover something more precious than winning.
God Only Knows by Mark V. Reyes focuses on the disturbing and gut- wrenching tale about the realities of life in the sprawling metropolis of Manila.

12 July/Sat, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
13 July/Sun, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
16 July/Wed, 9:00PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
17 July/Thu, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
17 July/Thu12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
20 July/Sun, 12:45PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

Cinemalaya 2008 Shorts Programme B:
Huling Biktima (The Last Victim) by Vitaliano A. Rave is a film noir style about a detective's last minutes.

My Pet by Anna G. Bigornia is a 7-minute animation about an 8-year-old girl and her relationship with her first pet, a chick, the subject of a class experiment.

Panggaris by Dexter B. Cayanes is about a prostitute whose life changes when her mute sibling learns to talk, uttering only the word "panggaris."

Trails of Water by Sheron R. Dayoc is an experimental film about a young boy's emotions as seen through his make-believe story.

Tutos (Cost) by L.A. Yamsuan tells about the dynamics and complexities of a single father-and-daughter relationship in a postmodern patriarchal Filipino society.

12 July/Sat, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
15 July/Tue, 9:00PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
16 July/Wed, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute
17 July/Thu, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
19 July/Sat, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
20 July/Sun, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

Tickets are priced at P100 each, with 50% discount for students.

C'mon PK girls! Let's support local indie films! I'm sure you'll love it! And yeah, another way you'd surely enjoy cinemalaya: hot boys (with brains) are plenty! hahaha :P