Tags: Film
By Gail Javier
MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA – Instituto Cervantes de Manila, the cultural arm of the Spanish Embassy, is bringing back the Película Spanish Film Festival.
Now on its ninth year, the festival this time features 23 chosen films from Spain and Latin America. The Película film festival is now the biggest presentation of Spanish cinema in Asia and the Pacific.
“Due to the successes of the first eight seasons, we are especially proud of the reputation the Película film festival has developed over the years as a great local venue to feature and premier award-winning Spanish films,” says Instituto Cervantes director Jose Rodriguez.
“We believe Película has the potential to foster incredible growth in arts and entertainment and attract the best of the best-acclaimed Spanish and Latin American filmmakers to this area.”
Multi-awarded films such as Bolivia, Cachimba, El hombre que salvó el mundo (Garbo, the Spy) and Celda 211 (Cell 211) make their Philippine première at the film festival, which starts September 30 at the Greenbelt 3 Cinemas.
The festival will also feature gems from Latin America’s exciting film scene, with films from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Among these are La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) and Pantaleón y las visitadores (Captain Pantoja and the Special Services) – these two films comprise the Noche Andina (Cinema from Peru).
Película also gives tribute to the Argentinean film industry with the showing of Bolivia, El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in their Eyes) and Luna de Avellaneda (Avellaneda’s Moon).
The Chilean Night will feature El chacotero sentimental (The Sentimental Teaser) and Cachimba along with Mexico’s Otilia Rauda and Desierto Adentro (The Desert Within).
This year’s event also features a series of workshops on scriptwriting and filmmaking by renowned Spanish scriptwriter and film producer Lola Mayo and Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta.
Mayo will screen her films Lo que sé de Lola (What I know about Lola) and La mujer sin piano (Woman without piano) while Lacuesta will present his films Los condenados (The Condemned) and La leyenda del tiempo (The Legend of Time).
Spanish director Miguel Albaladejo will also grace the Greenbelt 3 Cinemas for the Asian premier of his films Rencor, Nacidas para sufrir (Born to Suffer) and El cielo abierto (Ten Days without Love). Albaladejo will also be presenting his film Manolito Gafotas for a special children’s session.
The Spanish-Filipino connection is one of the highlights of Película 2010. On October 10, it will be the première of the Filipino movie Happyland.
The film, directed by Jim Libiran, follows the story of a Spanish missionary priest who starts an unthinkable project in one of Manila’s most impoverished districts – a football tournament in Tondo, Manila.
Película is part of the month-long Fiesta, the Spanish Festival for Culture and the Arts. It is organized by Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines, Spanish Agency International Cooperation for Development (AECID), Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation, Ministerio de Cultura of Spain, Greenbelt and Ayala Malls Cinemas, New World Hotel, Qatar Airways, Jaguar, and Welovepost.
For more information, including complete schedules and film synopses, please call 5261482 or visit www.pelicula.ph. Instituto Cervantes de Manila is located at 855 T.M. Kalaw St., Ermita, Manila.
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