A 41-year-old learning the
ABCs, a woman living her life between Saudi Arabia and the Philippines, and an
alien recounting the lives of Filipino men and women - these stories highlight
the lineup of documentary films for this year’s DocQC category at the QCinema
International Film Festival (QCinema).
For its seventh edition,
QCinema will showcase three documentary films that will run from October 13-22.
These documentaries
include For My Alien Friend by Jet Leyco, A is for
Agustin by Grace Pimentel Simbulan, and Spring by the Sea by
Aleia Garcia.
Jet Leyco’s For My
Alien Friend is about stories of Filipino men and women, and other
living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear
time, and dreams alike – all connected from the lens and experience of a
stranger, an Alien whose language is disconnected and demands an interaction
from the viewer to reconnect these stories to find their own meaning.
A is for Agustin by Grace Pimentel
focuses on the life of 41-year old Agustin Tiburcio, an illiterate indigenous
man in a remote mountainous region in northern Philippines who wants to learn
his ABCs. He gets fed up with being exploited by his employers and decides to
go to school with the goal of making a better life for himself and his family.
Spring by the Sea is a film by Aleia
Garcia, showing alternating Philippines and Saudi Arabia as her home and uses
personal home videos and present footage to tell the story of her family.
The grantees for the
documentary films have been given a post-production grant of P500,000 each
while retaining exclusive rights to their films.
Aside from DocQC, QCinema
has also given grants to filmmakers for its QCShorts and Asian Next Wave
competition category.
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