The UP Film Institute congratulates alumni Jhayle Meer and Patrick Rodil for making it to the Viddsee Juree Awards 2018. Their respective thesis films “Igme and Gani” and “In the Name of the Father” are shortlisted for the said competition.

The Viddsee Juree Awards is an initiative celebrating the entertainment industry’s picks of Asian short films from all genres: fiction, documentary and animation. Stories are picked from the brightest talents and upcoming filmmakers from the Philippines to be watched and judged by a panel of international judges. Each short film shortlisted for the competition will be watched by millions online.

You are invited to join the sessions and screenings which are all free of charge.

Film Screenings
26 – 28 September 2018

Location:
FDCP Cinematheque Centre Manila
855 Kalaw Ave, Ermita,
Manila, Metro Manila

Film Talk Sessions on Story Development, Postproduction and Short Films
28 September 2018 (Friday)
Location:
De La Salle – College of St. Benilde,
School of Design and Arts Building
SDA Cinema, 12th Floor
950 Pablo Ocampo St., Malate, Manila
“All About Cherie” Talk
29 September 2018 (Saturday)

Viddsee Juree Awards PH Ceremony
29 September 2018 (Saturday)
Location:
FDCP Cinematheque Centre Manila
855 Kalaw Ave, Ermita,
Manila, Metro Manila

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In the 1980s, political films made by alternative film groups and filmmakers arose as exposition of issues and events censored by the then Marcos-controlled mainstream press. Political filmmaking was their counter-action against the organized and massive pro-establishment Marcos propaganda (N. Tiongson, The Politics of Culture, 1984). These key works represent an alternative cinema that was clearly a partisan response of filmmakers engaged in seeking societal changes.

Clearly, these political filmmakers consciously used the film as medium, undeniably, for propaganda-education and contributed to the people’s protest movement that brought about the downfall of the Marcos dictatorship. More than this, these collective efforts aimed to document significant events, if not an entirety, of the Filipino people’s socio-political history countering the Marcos myth and fantasy of greatness (including the so-called Martial Law era as “Golden Age” of Philippine history mouthed nowadays).

Films for screening

Sabangan (originally in Super 8, transferred to U-matic, digitized for access)
27 mins.
Sabangan (1983), a documentary that won 2nd place in the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines (ECP) best documentary category, is about the plight of the Remontados of Tanay in Rizal and the proposed Kaliwa-Kanan Dam, a World Bank-funded project in support of Imelda Marcos, City of Man. The film was made by Jose Cuaresma, Bedette Libres, Freddie Espiritu, Robert Gruta, and L. Fischer.

Arrogance of Power (originally in Super 8, digitized for access)
38 mins.
Arrogance of Power (1983) by AsiaVisions is a short documentary that essays the fascist might of the Marcos regime and how militarization and human rights violations were Institutionalized in Philippine political life.

Daluyong (originally in Super 8, available copy in Betamax tape, digitized for access)
30 mins.
Daluyong (1984) is a documentary, by Joey Clemente and Nil Buan, Jr., on the historic Lakbayan o Lakad ng Bayan para sa Kalayaan held March 1984. It tackles the dissatisfaction of the Filipino people against the Marcos regime.

Lakbayan ’84 (available access copy in Betamax tape, digitized for access)
85 mins.
Lakbayan ’84 (1984) is an AsiaVisions video documentation of Lakbayan o Lakad ng Bayan para sa Kalayaan held from March 1 to March 7, 1984. Lakbayan was the first of its kind, a long protest march of peasants, students, professionals, church people, and cultural workers from Concepcion, Tarlac, north of Luzon, and San Pablo City, Laguna, south of Luzon, to Luneta Grandstand. It called for a boycott of the then-upcoming May 14, 1984 Batasang Pambasa elections believed to be rigged by the Marcoses.

Schedule of forum and film screenings with Q&A:

September 14, Friday

1:00 -2:30pm
Sabangan
Q&A: Jose Cuaresma, Bedette Libres, filmmakers

3:00 -4:30pm
Arrogance of Power
Q&A: Maloy Tiongson, widow of Lito Tiongson, one of the founders of AsiaVisions

September 15, Saturday

11:00am-12:00nn
Daluyong
Q&A: Joey Clemente, filmmaker

1:00 -2:30pm
Forum
Political filmmaking in a period of social unrest:
Political films in the 1980s under the Marcos regime
Speaker: Rose Roque, assistant professor, Department of Arts and Communication, UP Manila
With special screening of Beyond the Mainstream to start the talk

3:00 -5:0pm
Lakbayan ’84
Q&A: Jose Cuaresma, one of the founding members of AsiaVisions and part of the crew who covered Lakbayan in March 1984

Additional screening:

September 19, Wednesday

4:30-6:30pm
Edjop (documentary on Edgar Jopson by Alternative Horizons/AlterHorizons)

Organized by the UP Film Institute with UP Archons

Special acknowledgement to IBON Foundation, UP School of Library and Information Studies (UP SLIS), and Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA)
*Daluyong: Political Filmmaking in a Period of Social Unrest is curated by Rose Roque, UP Manila Philippine Arts assistant professor.

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This concept paper is prepared by Ms Rosemarie Roque

Ms Roque is an individual associate member of the South-East Asia Pacific Audio-Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA). She is also a member of the Cinema and Moving Image Research Assembly (CAMIRA), an international scholars’ association composed of critics, academics, curators and other practitioners in the domain of cinema and moving image arts. She is also an active member of the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA). She currently serves as its representative to the National Committee on Archives (NCA) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) (2017-2019), where she holds the position of assistant secretary of the Executive Committee.

She earned her BA Communication Research and MA Araling Pilipino degrees from UP Diliman. She is currently enrolled in PhD Media Studies under the College of Mass Communication, also in UP Diliman.

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UPFI Film Center 

September 2018

Jaguar

Sept 1 Sat 1 p.m.

Batch ‘81

Sept 1 Sat 4 p.m.

Citizen Jake

Sept 1 Sat 6:30 p.m.

Kontrobersyal

Sept 3 Mon 1 p.m.

Batang West Side *

Sept 3 Mon 4 p.m.

Signal Rock

Sept 4 Tue & 5 Wed 2:30, 5 & 7 p.m.

Indietaktakan sa PeYups with Kip Oebanda and Benedict Mique

Sept 6 Thurs 1:30 p.m.

Lilet

Sept 6 Thurs 5 p.m.

Lagarista

Sept 7 Fri 2:30 p.m.

Cut

Sept 7 Fri 5 p.m.

Ang Pirata

Sept 7 Fri 7 p.m.

Citizen Jake

Sept 10 Mon 1:30 & 6:30 p.m.

Batch ‘81

Sept 10 Mon 4 p.m.

Cut

Sept 10 Mon 5 p.m.

Rekorder

Sept 10 Mon 7 p.m.

Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon *

Sept 11 Tue 4 p.m.

Ang Pirata

Sept 11 Tue 7 p.m.

Banaue

Sept 12 Wed 2:30, 5 & 7:30 p.m.

Indietaktakan sa PeYups with Eman de la Cruz and Affie Africa

Sept 13 Thurs 1:30 p.m.

(FREE admission)

Kamera Obskura

Sept 13 Thurs 5 p.m.

Mga Rebeldeng May Kaso

Sept 13 Thurs 7 p.m.

Daluyong: Political Filmmaking in a Period of Social Unrest

Day 1 with Special Features, Presentations and Forum Presided by Prof Rose Roque of UP Manila

Sept 14 Fri 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

(FREE admission)

Nunal sa Tubig

Sept 14 Fri 7 p.m.

Daluyong: Political Filmmaking in a Period of Social Unrest

Day 2 with Special Features, Presentations and Forum Presided by Prof Rose Roque of UP Manila

Sept 15 Sat 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

(FREE admission)

Dekada 70

Sept 15 Sat 7 p.m.

Kamera Obskura

Sept 17 Mon 5 p.m.

Citizen Jake

Sept 17 Mon 7:30 p.m.

Respeto

Sept 18 Tue 1 p.m.

Mga Rebeldeng May Kaso

Sept 18 Tue 5 p.m.

Nunal sa Tubig

Sept 18 Tue 7:30 p.m.

Ang Pirata

Sept 19 Wed 2:30 & 7 p.m.

Ang Panahon ng Halimaw ^

Sept 19 Wed 5 p.m.

Ang Bagong Maestra

Sept 20 Thurs 5 p.m.

Ginoong Maria

Sept 21 Fri 7 p.m.

Hindi Kita Malimot

Sept 25 Tue 1 p.m.

Daluyong

Sept 26 Wed 1 p.m.

Indietaktakan at PeYups

with Filmmakers of Cinemalaya 2018 Shorts

Sept 27 Thurs 1:30 p.m.

(FREE admission)

Batch ‘81

Sept 27 Thurs 5 p.m. (to be confirmed)

Citizen Jake

Sept 27 Thurs 7:30 p.m.

Rekorder

Sept 28 Fri 2:30 & 7 p.m.

Ang Panahon ng Halimaw ^

Sept 28 Fri 5 p.m.

Nunal sa Tubig

Sept 29 Sat 2:30 p.m.

Eskapo

Sept 29 Sat 5 & 7 p.m.

Tickets:  P150 / P200 * / P250 ^

(available at the cinema entrance 1 hour before the screenings)

Schedules are subject to change without prior notice. For more info: 981.9500 loc. 4286;

visit www.filminstitute.edu.ph and like fb.com/upfifilmcenter on Facebook.

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The UP Film Institute (UPFI) is currently seeking applicants for the:
College Librarian IV (SG-22) position

Minimum Qualifications:

Terms of Reference:

• Handle the acquisition, collection, and maintenance of audio-visual and film materials such as film negatives, newsreels, 16mm films, scripts, magnetic clips, film stills, film ephemerals;
• Supervise the exchange or circulation as well as the classification, cataloguing, indexing of audio-visual and film materials;
• Undertake specific programs to retrieve cinematic works by Filipino directors;
• Supervise the preservation/archiving and storage of audio-visual and film materials housed in the UPFI vault;
• Attend to the needs of film researchers;
• Establish, develop, and sustain network and linkages with local and foreign audio-visual and film institutions such as foundations, film companies, and private collections pertaining to film matters;
• Preserve and maintain personal memorabilia of filmmakers and scholars donated specifically to UPFI;
• Perform other duties that may be assigned by the Unit Head and Faculty Coordinators

Interested applicants should:

1. Download and fully accomplish the New RSS Form revised 2018 at http://hrdo.upd.edu.ph/NEWRSSFORMrevised2018.xlsx and send it to updhrdorecruitment@gmail.com
2. Submit on or before the set deadline October 3, 2018 to the Recruitment & Selection Section of UP HRDO located at the Mezzanine floor, Quezon Hall, UP Diliman the following documents:
   1. Letter of application (stating the position, college/unit and that you certify all the attached documents are true and correct);
   2. Fully accomplished PDS
   3. Performance rating in the present position for one (1) year (if applicable);
   4. Photocopy of certificate of eligibility/rating/license;
   5. Photocopy of Transcript of Records;
   6. Photocopy of training certificates; and
   7. Photocopy of employment certificates
3. For further information, please click on the UP HRDO link below: http://hrdo.upd.edu.ph/job%20openings/AUG_2018_BOVP_411.pdf

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Bore no more Thursdays sa UPFI!

From August 23 to September 30, from our very own Film 159 class comes Indietaktakans at PeYups, an Afternoon of Talk Exciting/Pithy with Da Experts!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. FREE ADMISSION.

Line-up ng Indietaktakans:

23 August, 1:30PM – 4:00PM

“States of Independencia”

with producer Arleen Cuevas

Venue: ROOM B3 of the UPFI Media Center Bldg.

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30 August, 1:30PM – 4:00PM

“TRENTA: Mounting 3 Decades of Indie Memories”

with the folks behind the TRENTA exhibit

Venue: ROOM B3 of the UPFI Media Center Bldg.

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06 September, 1:30PM – 4:00PM

“Martial Law: Fucked, Fried & Fricassed”

with Cinemalaya 2018 filmmakers Kip Oebanda (LIWAY) and Benedict Mique (ML)

Venue: UPFI Film Center Videotheque

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13 September, 1:30PM – 4:00PM

“Cinemalaya: Then/Now”

with Emman Dela Cruz and Affie of The Lookout.

Venue: UPFI Film Center Videotheque

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20 September, 1:30PM – 4:00PM

“Best in the Short Form”

with Cinemalaya 2018 Shorts filmmakers and artists

Venue: UPFI Film Center Videotheque

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These talks are moderated by Prof Ed Cabagnot. Kitakits sa PeYups peeps! ?

For more details, go to its Facebook event page: http://bit.ly/IndietaktakanAtPeYups

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The UP Film Institute presents Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino’s best with Signal Rock directed by Chito S. Roño and written by Rodolfo Vera.

The film received the Critics’ Choice Award and Special Jury Award for Outstanding Acting for Christian M. Bables. It also stars Daria Ramirez, Nanding Josef, Mon Confiado, Elora Españo, Keana Reeves, Arnold Cruz Reyes, Francis Magundayao, Archie Adamos, Sue Prado, Jomari Angeles, Ces M. Quesada and Kokoy De Santos.

More information about the movie may be found at https://www.facebook.com/signalrockmovie/

Watch the award-winning film at UPFI Film Center-Cine Adarna on September 4 & 5, 2:30PM, 5:00PM, and 7:30PM. Admission fee is Php150. Tickets are available at the cinema entrance one (1) hour before each screening.

For more information, contact Sinag or Jack at 9818500 local 4286, 9263640 and 9262722, or visit the UPFI Film Center FB page: https://www.facebook.com/upfifilmcenter/

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UPFI Film Center
August 2018

ToFarm Film Festival
August 1 Wed
1:30 p.m. Pauwi Na
4 p.m. Kamunggai
6:30 p.m. Paglipay

August 2 Thurs
1:30 p.m. What Home Feels Like
4 p.m. Baklad
6:30 p.m. Pitong Kabang Palay

School Opening Special with Slashed-Price Admission
August 3 Fri
2:30 p.m. June
5 p.m. Backstabbing for Beginners
7 p.m. Cinco de Mayo

August 4 Sat
2:30 p.m. June
5 p.m. Cinco de Mayo
7 p.m. Backstabbing for Beginners

Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino Campus Tour
Free forum with filmmakers of Special Features selection @UPFI Film Studio
August 6 Mon 4 p.m.

Heroic Filipinos
In observance of National Heroes and History Month
August 6 Mon
5 p.m. Ang Misyon: A Marawi Siege Story
7:30 p.m. Ang Babae sa Likod ng Manbabatok

August 7 Tue
Ang Misyon: A Marawi Siege Story
1:30, 4 & 6:30 p.m.

AWOL (@Videotheque)
2:30, 5 & 7 p.m.

August 8 Wed (@Videotheque)
4 p.m. Lapu-lapu
6:30 p.m. Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok

August 9 Thur (@Videotheque)
Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok
1, 2:30 & 4 p.m.

Nowhere Yet Everywhere: Untold Stories of the 66th Infantry Regiment
5:30 & 7:30 p.m.

IAM4ME
Independent Advocacy Movies for Millennial Empowerment Digital Intelligence Summit
August 10 Fri
8 a.m. Movie: Kamangha-manghang Bakasyon ni Juan
9:30 Summit: Game Addiction, Digital Intelligence for Children, Bullying
10 a.m. Movie: Ang Tweet ni Florante kay Laura
11:30 a.m. Summit: Digital Buwan ng Wika
12 p.m. Short movie: HIV 101 Mother to Child Transmission
12:45 p.m. Short presentation by DICT Tech4Ed Project
1 p.m. Short Film: Prinsipe Charming
2 p.m. Movie: Flying Kiss
3:30 p.m. Summit: HIV 101 for Young Key Population
4 p.m. Movie: Ang Timeline ng Buhay ni B

August 11 Sat
8 a.m. Movie: Kamangha-manghang Bakasyon ni Juan
10 a.m. Summit: Game Addiction, Digital Intelligence for Children, Bullying
10:30 a.m. Movie: Ang Tweet ni Florante kay Laura
12:00 nn Summit: Digital Buwan ng Wika
12:30 p.m. Movie: Ang Tweet ni Florante kay Laura
2 p.m. Summit: Digital Creativity
2:30 p.m. Summit: Digital Etiquette
3 p.m. Movie: Ang Timeline ng Buhay ni B
4:30 p.m. Summit: Digital Influencers
6 p.m. YAEEHADEMIC Awards Ceremony

Heroic Filipinos
In observance of National Heroes and History Month
August 13 Mon (@Videotheque)
4 p.m. Lamberto V. Avellana Historical Documentary Shorts: Survivor; Battle Among the Clouds; Appointment at Mt. Manunggal
5:30 p.m. Balikbayan #1

August 14 Tue
1:30 p.m. Nowhere Yet Everywhere: Untold Stories of the 66th Infantry Regiment
4 p.m. Fallen Not Forgotten
6:30 p.m. Nowhere Yet Everywhere: Untold Stories of the 66th Infantry Regiment

21st EigaSai Japanese Film Festival
August 15 Wed
12:30 p.m. Chihayafuru Part 1
2:45 p.m. Tori Girl
5 p.m. When the Curtain Rises
7:15 p.m. Seven Samurai

August 16 Thu
12:30 p.m. Chihayafuru Part 2
2:45 p.m. Tora-san of Goto
5 p.m. Honnouji Hotel
7:15 p.m. Of Love & Law

August 17 Fri
12:30 p.m. Survival Family
2:45 p.m. ReLIFE
5 p.m. Memoirs of a Murderer
7:15 p.m. Seven Samurai

August 18 Sat
12:30 p.m. Rudolf the Black Cat
2:45 p.m. Let’s Go, JETS! From Small Town Girls to U.S. Champions?!
5 p.m. Chihayafuru Part 3
7:15 p.m. When the Curtain Rises

Sine ni FPJ
On the occasion of Da King’s birth anniversary
August 20 Mon (@Videotheque)
1:30 Daigdig Ko’y Ikaw
4 p.m. Pilipinas kong Mahal
6:30 p.m. Perlas ng Silangan

Heroic Filipinos
In observance of National Heroes and History Month
August 22 Wed (@Videotheque)
1:30 p.m. Kapitan Kulas
4 p.m. Fallen Not Forgotten
6:30 p.m. Nowhere Yet Everywhere: Untold Stories of the 66th Infantry Regiment

Fallen Not Forgotten (@Videotheque)
August 24 Fri 7 p.m.

Juan Balucas at ang Bayabas
August 25 Sat 4 p.m.

August 27 Mon (@Videotheque)
1:30 p.m. Waywaya
4 & 6:30 p.m.Balikbayan #1

For Their Love of Movies
Special Features for the 100th Birth Anniversary of the Filipino Film
Stardoom (@Videotheque)
August 30 Thur 1 p.m.

Heroic Filipinos
In observance of National Heroes and History Month
Curiosity, Adventure and Love (@Videotheque)
August 30 Thur 4 p.m.

Korean Arthouse Feature with UP Korea Research Center
Secret Reunion (@Videotheque)
August 30 Thur 6:30 p.m.

For Their Love of Movies
Special Features for the 100th Birth Anniversary of the Filipino Film
Bona (@Videotheque)
August 31 Fri 1 p.m.

Heroic Filipinos
In observance of National Heroes and History Month
August 31 Fri
2 & 5 p.m. Honor: The Legacy of Jose Abad Santos
7 p.m. Curiosity, Adventure and Love(@Videotheque)

For Their Love of Movies
Special Features for the 100th Birth Anniversary of the Filipino Film
Jaguar (@Videotheque)
Sept. 1 Sat 1 p.m.

Martial Law Never Again
Sept. 1 Sat
4. p.m. Batch 81
6:30 p.m. Citizen Jake

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The UP Film Institute welcomes Prof. Patrick F. Campos as its new Director as well as Profs. Yason Banal and Nick Deocampo as Film, Theater and Extension Services Coordinator and Academic Programs & Research Coordinator, respectively. They succeed Profs. Sari Dalena, Ed Lejano, and Melissa dela Merced, who have ably and fruitfully served the institute in the last three years.

Prof. Campos is a film scholar, critic, and curator and a media literacy advocate. He is concurrently the director of the Office of Research and Publication of the UP College of Mass Communication and a member of the cinema committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino. He serves as the editor of two leading Philippine academic journals, Humanities Diliman and Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society, and is author of The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century and other books and essays on media and cinema in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Prof. Banal is a prolific artist whose conceptual and critical practice traverse forms and disciplines, having been exhibited widely including the Tate, Frieze Art Fair, IFA Berlin, Yerba Buena, Vargas Museum, Christie’s, Singapore Biennale and Shanghai Biennale. He has curated video exhibitions for Osage Art Foundation, Andy Warhol Museum and the Asia Pacific Triennial, while his own video works have been screened at Gertrude Contemporary, Center for Contemporary Art and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art among others. Recent exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Daegu Art Factory and currently at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Prof. Deocampo is a documentary filmmaker, historian, and curator. His films include Oliver, The Sex Warriors and the Samurai, and Private Wars as well as a series of film educational documentaries. He is completing a five-volume history of Philippine cinema, of which three have been published, namely Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema, and Eiga: Cinema in the Philippines during World War II. He recently curated the exhibit, Hidden Cinema: The Virtual Experience of Philippine Cinema’s Centenary, at the Ayala Museum.

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The UP Film Institute together with the Viva Entertainment and Reality Media hosted the exclusive premiere screening of Erik Matti’s Buy Bust on July 25 The film is Matti latest opus after Sekluyson (2016) Honor Thy Father (2015) The film had its international premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival in June.

The full-house audience was welcomed by director Erik. The internationally acclaimed filmmaker expressed his wish to show the film to a wide selection of audience.

He further stated  “More and more people are having a difficult time going to the theater, they’d rather stream content, they’d rather download, they’d rather concentrate on social media, they’d rather decide on it individually rather then be forced to specifically go to the theaters, go out of their way and experience it in the cinemas. Ito we are hoping people will say ‘Watch it on the big screen’, because that’s how we wanted it to be seen.”

Audience eagerly line up outside Cine  Adarna hours before the screening of the film.

Director Erik Matti introduces the film prior to the screening.

Director Erik Matti together with cast and crew of the film during the Q&A after the film.
Buy Bust will be screened nationwide on August 1 and will be the opening film at this year’s Cinemalaya on August 3.
Once again congratulations to Erik Matti and the whole team of Buy Bust. _________________________________________________________
Check the gallery to see the photos during the screening.

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