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Oggs Cruz

Cinemalaya Overview: Directors Showcase

Posted by Oggs Cruz on Sunday, July 17, 2011 in Cinemalaya, Film Festivals, Images, Trailers

Introduced last year to entice more seasoned directors to enjoy the pleasures of movie-making without sacrificing their creativity and vision, the Directors Showcase this year features four films whose stories are as varied as the backgrounds of their directors.

Check out the directors and their showcases after the jump:

Dodo Dayao

Cinemalaya Overview: New Breed

Posted by Dodo Dayao on Sunday, July 17, 2011 in Cinemalaya, Film Festivals, Images, Trailers

The interstices of fate and the poetics of dance. The interior lives of upstart filmmakers and drug mules. The often messy and also often wondrous dynamics of birth and family and young love.  Coming of age and coming to grief.

Having a hard time with the text only schedule? You’re not the only one. So since we’re such nice boys men here at Lagarista.com we decided to scan and upload the authentic Cinemalaya schedule brochure they’re giving out at CCP.

Download link after the jump.

Richard Bolisay

2011 Manila Film Financing Forum

Posted by Richard Bolisay on Sunday, July 17, 2011 in Cinemalaya, Features, Film Festivals

“Making Sense and Cents of Emerging Cinema” is the theme of the 2011 Manila Film Financing Forum, organized by the Philippine Independent Filmmakers Multi-purpose Cooperative (IFC) and the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. The event will be held on July 17, 2011, from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. at the Silangan Hall of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Oggs Cruz

Cinemalaya Opening Night

Posted by Oggs Cruz on Saturday, July 16, 2011 in Cinemalaya, Film Festivals, Images, Lagarista.com Exclusive, News

It was the strangest of nights. The Cultural Center of the Philippines, home of the finer arts and hence an edifice that most of Manila avoided, was for that one strange night more jam-packed than a sports bar on a Pacquiao fight morning.

Find out why after the jump.

Don’t know anything about Cinemalaya? The dates? The tickets? The movies? The venues? The schedule?

Don’t worry. We’ve compiled this Cinemalaya F.A.Q out of some real world questions we’ve been getting about the festival. And here are the real world answers.

Cinemalaya na!  Can’t be bothered to scrounge around the net for an updated schedule? Oks lang, kami bahala sa inyo.  All the comepetition and exhibition films, talks and events in one place.

O? Ano pang hinihintay ninyo? Nood na!

Zig Marasigan

Lagarista.com Goes to Cinemalaya 2011!

Posted by Zig Marasigan on Friday, July 15, 2011 in Announcements, Cinemalaya, Film Festivals, News

Cinemalaya breaks opens the champagne (or buko juice, depending on how you see it) later tonight at the CCP. And Lagarsita.com will be posting in-depth coverage for all ten days of the festival.

So thank God we stole were given Media badges ‘cause we’re covering Cinemalaya 2011!

Juan Miguel Sevilla

5 Filipino Movies That Should Be Remade

Posted by Juan Miguel Sevilla on Thursday, July 14, 2011 in Astig, Features, Lagarista.com Exclusive

Remakes are a tricky business. It’s nearly impossible to divorce it from the original.

Here’s five films, though great in themselves, might benefit from a second look. And this time, maybe with a different set of eyes.

Zig Marasigan

Award-winning Filmmaker Don Escudero Passes Away (1956-2011)

Posted by Zig Marasigan on Thursday, July 14, 2011 in News

Award-winning production designer, writer and director, Don Escudero passed away earlier this week, leaving behind over twenty five years of illustrious work.

Lagarista.com bids adieu to one of the finest filmmakers in local cinema.

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