I am woman, hear me roar!
Meow!

Hehe, don’t mind me. I’m a little weird in the head lately. Anyway, in celebration of the worldwide women’s celebration for March, the UP Film Institute is hosting the 17th International Women’s Film Festival. This year’s theme is “Women Refigured—Making Choices, Creating Changes, Crossing Boundaries.”

The film fest is slated from March 5 Monday to March 8 Thursday at the Cine Adarna (UP Film Center). Take note that ADMISSION IS FREE! Here are the details:

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If you are the next Lino Brocka in the making but don’t know sh*t about studio brainstorming, you’d better proceed reading.

FILM STUDIO BRAINSTORMING… The Science & Art
Want to know how a commercial film production outfit develops projects?
Master the principles crucial to make a certified box-office hit movie.
Learn how to integrate into your story concept aspects that affect the production of a script. Know anything from market viability to star system to studio jargons and doctrines.

FILM STUDIO BRAINSTORMING… The Science & Art
Seminar Workshop
March 3 & 10
Fee: P 3,000

Facilitators:
JL Caiña [former Member, ABS-CBN/Star Cinema-Creative Development Group (CDG); former TV Analyst for ABS-CBN]
Melchor Escarcha [Creative Consultant, THUNDERPUNCH Animation and Comics Studio; USA former Member, ABS-CBN/Star Cinema-Creative Development Group (CDG)]

For Registration & Inquiries Contact: +639208793237
Email: irish_patatas_ entertainment@ yahoo.com

REGISTER ON-LINE

Source: E-mail from the U.P. Film Institute

I got this through e-mail from the U.P. Film Institute. If you want to watch something fresh and different, why not check this out?

Communication Department of Colegio de San Juan de Letran will have
It’s annual Pelikuletran where it showcases talents of Senior
Communication Arts students in making short films.

Six short films will be shown on February 26-March 01 at LETRAN GROUNDS, MURALLA ST., INTRAMUROS, MANILA

See trailers and posters

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For movie buffs with a fifty-peso budget such as I, nothing beats Cine Adarna of the UP Film Institute located in the Diliman Campus of the University of the Philippines.

Cine Adarna may not show the latest wide screen offerings, but they do hold local and international film festivals (Cinemalaya and Eigasai among many others), advance screenings of Pinoy indie films (screams, “Papa Ping!“), uncut versions of popular movies (uy, sex na ba? sex na ba? ayan, sex na!), and foreign art house favorites (Voulez vous coucher avec moi?).

Pretty neat, huh? Well, enough about that. Here is Cine Adarna’s Feb sked:

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You might want to watch this. Girls, it features the yummy Ping Medina! *wink-wink*

Image source: Ping Medina