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Arkeo entry wins Gold at the Araw Awards
| December 1, 2009
Arkeo entry wins Gold at the Araw Awards
Subic, Olongapo — The 21st Philippine Advertising Congress recently concluded with the announcement of the Araw Awards featuring the most creative campaigns of 2008 and 2009. Arkeo’s very own “Mano Po” (an initiative headed by advertising icon Ompong Remigio of Campaigns & Grey) bags a Gold for Direction for Mario Cornejo and a Bronze for Editing for Lawrence Ang. “Mano Po” is a series of 30s for Safeguard.
Watch the ad here. Read the rest of the winners here.
Short Films for a Cause
| October 23, 2009
The Media Arts Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines is mounting a fundraising activity for the victims of Ondoy and Pepeng. The event is entitled SAGIP SINING: ART TO THE RESCUE and will be on 25 October, 2009 from 10 am to 10 PM. Our very own short film MANSYON joins five other classic Cinemalaya shorts for the screening.
A donation fee of a minimum of P20 will be charged. The venue is Dreamtheater, CCP.
Here’s the full schedule:
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BABY ANGELO premieres in New Delhi
| October 23, 2009
Baby Angelo was selected for the 11th edition of the Osian Cinefan Film Festival in New Delhi, India as part of the InDialogue program.
Catch Baby Angelo at these times and venues:
25 Oct / 20:45 / Alliance Francaise
27 Oct / 16:00 / Siri Fort 2
Click here for the Osian Cinefan website and download the complete schedule.
SAMMY walks into Cinemanila
| October 16, 2009
Lakad ni Sammy (English title: Too Much Walking) premieres at this year’s Cinemanila International Film Festival in Taguig City. Sammy is the companion piece to last year’s short film, Ang Ibang Mga Pamilya (Other Families), presenting two stories about one encounter.
Lakad ni Sammy (Too Much Walking)
In Sammy, a young boy and his grifter father spend a day together, and a chance encounter at the end of the day reveals the truth about the two. Both Lakad ni Sammy and Ang Ibang Mga Pamilya are adapted from the Jose Y. Dalisay short story, Some Families, Very Large. Joel Ruiz directs, the screenplay is written by Ruiz and National Book Award-winning writer Tara Sering. Paulken Bustillo, Randy Punzal and Lui Manansala star.