My Movie World: January 2013

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Saturday, 19 January 2013

Cinemalya 2013 Finalists

The Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival has announced the finalists for this year’s edition. In line with the announcement, Cinemalaya will also hold its traditional casting call/open auditions to be held on January 19 to 20, 2013 (Saturday and Sunday), 9AM to 6PM (with breaks), at the MKP Hall, 4th Floor of the Cultural Center of the Philippines at Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City. The filmmakers will be there to personally conduct the auditions.

Each official entry is entitled to receive a P500,000 seed grant from the Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. Cinemalaya 2013 will be held within a 10-day run showcasing new indie films from July 26 to August 4, 2013 at the CCP theaters, Trinoma, and Greenbelt Cinemas.

Here are the following entries for Cinemalaya 2013

Official Poster of Seduction

Points of View of Direk Sigfreid Barros-Sanchez On Our Local Films

THE CALL CENTER GENERATION: THE ANSWER TO THE INDIE FILM MAKER’S WOES

IF there’s one thing that the recent Metro Manila Film Festival returns has proven for the past seven years, it is the fact that the male populace is not the one who dictates how the money is spent in the household nowadays. Not unlike in the ‘80s and the ‘90s where it’s the father or the older brother who comes home tired from a job and was the one looking for a movie that will titillate his senses --- thus the emergence of ST films and action flicks during that time --- this generation’s money earners are not anymore coming from this demographic. Back in the days, a father would bring his young kid to watch a Fernando Poe, Jr. or a Lito Lapid movie and then afterwards, after treating the family, had an excuse to watch one sexy flick for his personal enjoyment. However, according to a recent study made, those earning P15,000-P20,000 a month these days do not come anymore from the macho workforce but from women and members of the third sex who comprise 70% of the working populace of a booming industry called “call center”. These sectors are the ones who have the buying capacity to dictate what movie to watch, which actor to support, and which artist they should throw their hard earned money at. Thus, in the past seven years, movies that make a killing at the tills are the ones that speak the language of the women and the third sex and a film that has an icon in it that they can hopefully relate their life from like the Vice Gandas, the the Eugene Domingoses, the Ai-Ai delas Alases, the Judy Ann Santoses, and the many films about the other women which were very much in demand at the moviehouses last year. Thus, again, the moneymakers at the Metro Manila Film Festivals in the past seven years have been “Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo,” “Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo,” the “Tanging Ina” trilogy,