Please, don’t!
November 30, 2005 by iamdoods
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Please don’t envy my profile design. I just knew how to do it… hahaha..
Today, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros is being shown in Manila and my friends are bugging me if we could watch it tonight. Well, sorry to them, we will get to see it maybe next week. That’s the luxury we can’t have if we are considered a “probinsya”…
I’ve also read the news a couple of days ago that the movie is now an entry to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah (which of course was founded by the very charismatic Robert Redford). It is being shown in the World Festival Category along with some movies from Bosnia, South Korea, Russia and etc.
Been busy lately veiwing David Cronenberg’s movie, A History of Violence, which was a very tenseous(?) movie. He’s got style and his visuals and storytelling are great. Also, been watching Darren Aronofsky’s movies, his first film Pi, which was shown first in Sundance. This weekend I’m making sure that I’ll get to see his Requiem For A Dream. I’ve been preparing for Darren’s The Fountain, which stars Rachel Weiss, Batman Christian Bale, and Wolverine Hug Jackman.
A lot of Film Festival are happening around the city. The Guerrilla Filmmaking 3 of Alchemy of Vision and Light will begin on December 4 at Gaisano Mall of Davao. Highlight of the event will be the First Mindanao Film Congress. Just check out their site www.alchemyofvisionandlight.com. And I just hope that the films they are making will make me proud as a davaoeño. So let’s just support everyone!
Also there is the Pink Film Festival on December 5-6, 2005, 9am to 8pm at CAP Auditorium which is being organized by GABRIELA Women’s Partylist, PROGAY philippines, IWAG-DAVAO, Family Plannning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP)-Davao Teen Center, Les Circle, IGDD-Davao City Mayor’s Office, Mowell Fund Film Institute, and the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA).
I really don’t like the way film festivals are held here in the Philippines because they still have to undergo the very conservative censorship of the MTRCB, unlike in the other countries where there are no censorship that limits your creativity.
Well, I guess that’s it for now. I’m out.
