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12th FIRST International Film Festival call for entries

FIRST is one of the most important independent film festival in China taking place in July 21-20 each year. We have been dedicated in discovering and nurturing new talents in China and across the world since the festival’s inception in 2006. In the recent decade, FIRST presents important debuts in Chinese cinema including The Widowed Witch (dir. Cai Chengjie, Hivos Tiger Award 2018), The Last Laugh (dir. Zhang Tao, ACID Cannes 2017), The Summer Is Gone (dir. Zhang Dalei, Golden Horse Award Best Pictures 2016) etc. Among the interantional competition, FIRST has presented filmmakers including Anocha Suwichakornpong, Klara Kochanska and Guido Hendrikx.

FIRST receives over 1200 submissions each year and among them about 400 are from outside of China. We have two Grand Jury Prize specially for international filmmakers.

For most filmmakers, film schools are places where they start out. As one of the most prestigious film schools worldwide, your school has done a fantastic job in nurturing filmmakers and made a remarkable contribution to the film industry. We are very thrilled to see some groundbreaking works from your students.

Submission are welcome until May 15 2018 through the online entry form at www.firstfilm.org.cn. Look forward to your reply and powerful works from your students! Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about FIR

he film entry for 12th FIRST International Film Festival Xining starts on January 1, 2018.

The film entry for 12th FIRST International Film Festival Xining starts on January 1, 2018.

FIRST International Film Festival Xining seeks the fresh cinema expression and breaking-edge cinematic language. Every July, we celebrate our passion for free spirit and love for cinema. FIRST promotes the emerging talents and presents the brave and creative films.

The submission deadline for the 12th FIRST is May 15, 2018.

The submission is open to features, documentary, animation, experimental films and short films from China and abroad. Please read the Rules and Regulations before submit your film.The 12th FIRST International Film Festival Xining Rules and Regulations.pdf

A film need to meet the following requirement to be considered for competition:

  • ・Completed after January 1, 2017
  • ・Has not been distributed in theater or online in mainland China
  • ・(for narrative features) the film is the 1st, 2nd or 3rd narrative feature of the director

Best Director

Selected among nominated Chinese narrative features to award the filmmaker with outstanding sense of directing and perfect combination of personal experience.

Best Narrative Feature

Selected among nominated Chinese narrative features to award the film that shows creativity in narrative, cinematic language and aesthetic form.

Best Documentary

Selected among nominated Chinese documentaries to award the non-fiction work with document value, humanistic concern and the ability to reflect on the social context while being unbiased. (The Best Documentary Award comes with a prize value of 50,000 RMB)

Best Short Film

Selected among nominated Chinese narrative short films to award the film that presents unlimited possibility with limited time and works with cinematic elements in a creative way.

Best Animation/Experimental Film

Selected among nominated Chinese animation/experimental films to award the film that makes diversified expression via visual elements and carries out unique practice of film aesthetics.

Best Performer

Selected among the leading actor/actress from nominated Chinese narrative features to award the actor/actress’s outstanding performance and the construction of the character.

Best Artistic Originality

Selected among nominated Chinese narrative features and documentaries to award the filmmaker who have major contribution or exploration in the field of screenwriting, cinematography, music, editing and art design.

Grand Jury Prize – Feature Film 

Selected from nominated international feature-length films to award the film with proficient skills, pioneered idea and free cinematic language. The Jury Committee will give out this award depending on the film’s stylization, context and spirit.

Grand Jury Prize – Short Film

Selected from nominated international short films to award the film with proficient skills, pioneered idea and free cinematic language. The Jury Committee will give out this award depending on the film’s stylization, context and spirit.

Spirit of Freedom

This award would be present to Chinese narrative feature film or Chinese documentary with avant-garde aesthetics. The award represents the self-consciousness, culture value and the combination of independent thinking with cinema practice.

For more information please visit: http://www.firstfilm.org.cn

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The UP Film Institute congratulates alumna Lou Mendoza for her  short film,   The Last Tatooed Women in Tanudan (Know Your North) produced under Extra Mile productions for garnering the awards of Short film and Cinematography at the Adobo Design Awards 2018. The documentary also garnered a total of 12 awards. Mendoza directed and produced the film.

          

Again congratulations Lou.

 

 

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The UP Film Institute reaped awards at the recently held Parangal Para sa Kolehiyo of UP College of Mass Communication last April 25, 2018 at the UPFI Media Center. Among the ones honored were faculty professors who garnered awards and recognitions, students who won awards at various film festivals, and employees for their many years of service for the college.

For the faculty among the professors who received certificates of recognition are:
Professor Sari  Ll. Dalena

Professor Patrick Campos

Professor Nick Deocampo

Professor Roland Tolentino

Professor Ed Lejano

 

UPFI Director Sari Ll Dalena poses with the awarded students and staff of UPFI Film Institute

 

For the UPFI students among  the undergraduate students who received certificates of recognition are:

Austin Tan

Max Arvin Daniel “Max” Canlas

Steven Paul Evangelio

Rom Trishtan Perez

Don Senoc

Adrian Karl O. Maquilan

Shiela Manacsa

Jeremy Luke B. Bolatag

 

For the UPFI students among  the  graduate students who received certificates of recognition are

Gilbert Baldoza

Alyson Babate

 

For the UPFI  staff who received certificates of recognition are:

Ms. Elaine Balane Alvarez

Ms. Jack Manalo

Janette Aquino Pamaylaon

Daniel Aquino Noriega

Napoleon Angat

 

Again congratulations, UPFI Faculty members, students, and staff!

 

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The UP Film Institute (UPFI) congratulates alumnus Carl Adrienne Santos for his film  Bangkang Papel which won First Place award in the 1st Bayanihan 2018, Bayani sa Panitikan (Bayani) Short film Contest given by National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

Once Again Congratulations Carl Adrienne.

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The UP Film Institute (UPFI) congratulates alumni  Carlo Franciso Manatad for his short film Jodilerks dela Cruz Employee of the Month, which just received Best Director at Dakino Film Fest in Romania, and Special Jury Mention at San Francisco International Film Festival. (SEAFIC). The film which is produced by another UFPI alumni Armi Rae Cacanindin stars Angeli Bayani has premiered winning awards Cannes Critics’ Week Carlo will be in Cannes next month to pitch his feature film project Whether the Weather is Fine (TorinoFilmLab 2017) at Cannes Atelier.

Once again congratulations Carlo and Armi Rae.!!!

 

 

 

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The UP Film Institute congratulates UPFI student Austin Tan (Happy Birthday, Mylene! 2023 Ka Na.) and Alumni Gio Potes (Mark and Lenny) and Kaye Banaag (Duyan ng Alon), for being selected for the Cine Filipino Film Festival 2018.

Again, congratulations Kaye, Mark and Austin!!!

 

 

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The UP Film Institute together with  Film Producers Society, Globe Studios, Epicmedia Productions and Sine Olivia Pilipinas  hosted the premiere of Lav Diaz’s Ang Panahon ng Halimaw (The Season of the Devil)  last April 20 at 5pm. The film made its World Premiere in Main Competition at the 68th Berlinale – Berlin International Film

Lav Diaz is best known for his films A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, (2016) From What Is Before (2014), Norte, the End of History (2013), His films  has been nominated for Golden Bear (for A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery) at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The film The Woman Who Left competed at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and was awarded the Golden Lion

 

The film stars Piolo Pascual, Shaina Magdayao, Pinky Amador, Bituin Escalante, Hazel Orencio, Bart Guingona, Joel Saracho, Angel Aquino, Lilit Reyes, Don Melvin Boongaling, Noel Sto. Domingo and Ian Lomongo.

The event was co-presented by Co-presented by ASTIG.PH When In Manila Pelikula Mania CinemaBravo U.P. Cinema FEU Film Society.

Don't miss the Philippine grand premiere of Lav Diaz's 'Ang Panahon ng Halimaw' on April 20, 5pm at the UP Cine Adarna!…

Nai-post ni Ang Panahon ng Halimaw noong Miyerkules, Abril 18, 2018

Cast and Crew for Ang  Panahon ng Halimaw

Pinky Amador answers questions from the audience

Hazel Orencio of Sine Olivia Pilipinas entertains questions from the audience

Lilit Reyes entertains questions from the audience

Baby Ruth Villarama entertains questions from the audience

 

 

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U.P. PROFESSOR EMERITUS FOR FILM CONFERRED EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNICATION AWARD : Philippines Communication Society (PCS) Media and Gender Conference

The 2018 Excellence in Communication Award will be conferred by the Philippines Communication Society (PCS) to the beloved Media Educator, Film Studies Scholar, Communication Innovation Advocate, U.P. Professor Emeritus for Film, and Former Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Open University, Dr. Grace Javier Alfonso.

The awarding ceremony with Dr. Alfonso’s keynote speech is the highlight of the Media and Gender Conference with the theme “Constructing Gender in Multimedia Contexts” on April 30,

2018 (Monday) at the PUP Bulwagang Balagtas at the A. Mabini Main Campus in Manila.  The award is the highest distinction of honor bestowed by the Philippines Communication Society, which in the past, have been conferred to: Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid and Ms. Gina Lopez.

“Dr. Grace Javier Alfonso embodies the rigor and commitment of a true communication scholar,” explains PCS President Dr. Lourdes M. Portus. “She is a vanguard in innovation in communication education, specifically open systems and distance learning.” The award recipient is also a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, director, multimedia artist, and film critic. She teaches film, media, and art in the ASEAN Region online, and as Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs.  She is the Founding Chair of U.P. College of Mass Communication Film and Audiovisual Department, now the U.P. Film Institute.

The 35-inch tall Excellence in Communication Trophy was conceptualized, designed and executed by U.P. Fine Arts Professor and visual artist, Toym Imao, the son of National Artist and TOYM Awardee for Sculpture, Abdulmari A. Imao, Sr.

The PCS Gender and Media conference will also launch the 2017 PCS Review, the annual official publication of the organization, and the third issue of the PCS Post.

Established in 1987, the Philippines Communication Society is an organization of communication scholars, researchers, media executives, public information officers, corporate communication officers and communication professionals engaged in the promotion of communication as a social science discipline. It is the organization representing the communication discipline to the Philippine Social Science Council, and … the annual PCS Review. For more information on the Philippines Communication Society, 2018 PCS Review and the Conference on Gender and Media, contact philcomsoc@gmail.com or visit the Philippines Communication Society Facebook page.

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STORED IN MEMORY
The 10th Annual SIGCIS Conference St. Louis, Missouri, USA | October 14, 2018
The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS]
welcomes submissions to their annual conference
Proposal Due Date: June 30, 2018
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington
THEME
Much of a computer’s work is made possible not by users’ direct actions, but by off -screen manipulations of its memory: storage, allocation, saving, deletion, registration, collection,partitioning, defragmentation, and so on. These processes have been crucial to the computer’s mass popularization during the 20th century and into the 21st—from the first stored program computer,to the rise of the consumer software industry, to the unpredictable and often troubling emergence of
the Internet of Things, predictive analytics, and data harvesting.
Yet encoding in computer memory is never obvious, given, or inert; choices about how to store and structure data inevitably inform the meaning that can be made with computing machines. In other words, all exercises in memory are
also exercises in obfuscation, exclusion, and forgetting. Similarly, historians, theorists, and archivists of information
technologies depend on the often imperceptible operations of memory: from the delicacy of human past experiences taken down in oral history, to presences and gaps “captured” in the archive. This problem of what is remembered, and what is forgotten, is the disciplinary condition that renders history as much art as it is science.
In honor of the 10th annual SIGCIS conference, STORED IN MEMORY invites scholars, museum
and archive professionals, IT practitioners, artists and independent researchers across the disciplinary
spectrum to submit abstracts related to the historical conditions of computing. We are especially
interested in (but not limited to) work that relates to the theme of “memory,” broadly and
imaginatively construed. Areas of engagement may include:
•How have computing technologies transformed people’s engagement with their past, present,
or future?
•What role does computing play in the formation and development of political systems,
governance infrastructures, and institutional memory?
•How are people’s histories and identities
—race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and so on
—recorded and represented through information tec
hnologies?
•Where do computer encodings fit in the longer history of tools and practices with which communities represent the world? What epistemological realities does computer memory afford?
•What place does the history of memory (computer, human, sociopolitical, and so on) have in
the history of computing?
•How have databases served to memorialize and monumentalize certain formations of knowledge, and what is forgotten in these processes?
•How has the historiography of computing and information changed over the years, and where could it take us next? (Retrospectives welcome)
•What challenges and methods are emerging in the preservation of computing history through archives, museums, oral histories, and digital-born collections?
SIGCIS is especially welcoming of new directions in scholarship. We maintain an inclusiveatmosphere for scholarly inquiry, supporting both disciplinary interventions from beyond the traditional history of technology, and with respect to promoting diversity in STEM. We welcome submissions from: the histories of technology, computing, information, and science; science and technology studies; oral history and archival studies;digital humanities;critical studies of big data
and machine learning; studies of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality; disability studies and the medical humanities; film, media, and game studies;software and code studies; network and internet histories; music, sound studies, and art history; and all other applicable domains.
The annual SIGCIS Conference takes place on the final day of the annual meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT].
Information about the annual SHOT conference can be found at: https://bit.ly/2E6qgko
SUBMISSION FORMATS
SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15
-20 minute papers, 3
-4 paper panel proposals, works
-in-progress (see below), and non
-traditional proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations,
hands-on workshops, etc.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
The Works-in-Progress (WiP) session will be a workshop wherein participants discuss their work in small group sessions. We invite works-in-progress—articles, chapters, dissertation prospectuses—of 10,000 words or less (longer works must be selectively edited to meet this length).
We especially encourage submissions from graduate students, early career scholars, and scholars who are new to
SIGCIS. Authors who submit a WiP will also commit to reading (in advance) two other WiPs,
discussing them in a small group setting, and providing written feedback on one of those WiPs.
Scholars who would like to participate in this session without submitting their own WiP are
welcome; we ask that they commit to reading (in advance) at least two of the WiPs.

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Indie Bravo!

‘Sunday Beauty Queen’ goes to Harvard

/ 12:30 AM April 17, 2018
Director Baby Ruth Villarama (third from left) and the “Sunday Beauty Queens” (from left): Mylyn Jacobo, Leo Selomenio and Hazel Perdido
Over a year after its premiere, “Sunday Beauty Queen” is still going places.

Harvard is the latest stop of Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary on Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong.

The docu, which won best picture at the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival, will have a special screening on the Harvard campus in Longwood, Boston, Massachusetts, on April 21 at 2 p.m.

The free showing serves as a prelude to the Filipino Festival, which will be held in Malden, Massachusetts, on June 23.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that any of my films or even an extension of myself would reach an Ivy League school like Harvard,” Villarama, who will attend the event, told the Inquirer. “I just hope that, through this special screening, future leaders and decision makers studying at Harvard would form a deeper understanding of the plight of our migrant workers, as well as of the value of their work in different parts of the world. I also hope to hear some suggestions on the best courses of action to take, in order to improve the government’s services to our OFWs (overseas Filipino workers).”

Organizer Kristine Bautista said that she had chosen Harvard as venue because of the institution’s track record in “promoting diversity and cross-cultural understanding.”

Harvard’s Kimberly Truong, director of Inclusion Programs (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), remarked: “We’re excited to watch this film as it would help us gain a better insight into the lives of Filipino domestic workers, through their own voices and narratives. It would help us open up conversations on socioeconomic inequities within our global society.”

Bautista commended the docu for showcasing the courage and resilience of Filipino women. “Despite being away from their homeland, they’ve managed to cope with the challenges of daily life so they can support and provide for their families.” —BAYANI SAN DIEGO JR.

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