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Among the 92 films to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival from January 18-28, 2024 in Salt Lake City and Park City in Utah are four works by Filipinos. These are the documentary “And So It Begins” by Ramona Diaz, and the short films “Dream Creep” by Carlos A.F. Lopez, “Thirstygirl” by Alexadra Qin, …
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“Bold Eagle,” the experimental sex dramedy by director Whammy Alcazaren that won Best Short film at the QCinema International Film Festival 2022, has been selected for Sundance Film Festival 2024’s Midnight Short Film Program. Out of over a record 12,000 entries submitted this year, “Bold Eagle” will be screening alongside 53 other short films in competition. The news was announced on the filmfest’s website on Wednesday, December 13, Manila time.
For a remarkable feature debut commandeered by two riveting lead performances, offering a very intense, haunting cinematic experience, Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak wins the Asian Next Wave award of QCinema. The award, which focuses on emerging filmmakers from Southeast Asia and East Asia with less than three features, made a comeback in this year’s edition of QCinema. …
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A refreshingly diverse program of themes and styles are in store for all viewers in QCinema’s 10th year, which will blaze the big screens in November. This year’s winning short films examine cinema and interrogate space created, recreated, and destroyed through it. Its roster covers a range of concerns — from a reflexive attempt to save …
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