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The 1st Annual Filipino International Film Festival LA

Active Vista Film Festival
Nov 26 - Dec 2, 2008 | Indie Sine

The Active Vista Film Festival is organized by DAKILA – Philippine Collective for Modern Heroism through the support of the National Commission on Culture and Arts and the Philippine Independent Filmmakers Cooperative. Active Vista is a film festival that will feature full-length or short films, video documentaries or animation that tackle core values that promote responsible citizenship and various advocacies that contribute to nation building.

Active Vista. Dynamic Views. Active Vista challenges to define a spectrum in the use of film as a powerful tool in shaping the consciousness of a new generation of film goers into the importance of critical thinking as the foundation of responsible citizenship and nation building. The term “active vista” is characterized to encourage dynamism in views as a fundamental requirement in addressing methods and directions of social transformation.

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The 7th Berlinale Talent Campus
a sub-program of Berlin International Film Festival

A six-day creative summit for up-and-coming FILMMAKERS. FEBRUARY 7 – 12, 2009

Featured Films:

Silent Odyssey

The First Feature-Length Documentary Film on Filipino Deaf Culture

A journey into the Deaf world—brings out the Filipino Deaf’s sentiments towards the hearing society, chronicles the significant and pioneering efforts of different institutions and personages in Philippine Deaf history and touches on important and current issues on Deaf education. It introduces the word “audism” (Deaf oppression)—a not-yet-so-popularl y used term in the Filipino Deaf community; takes a glimpse at the 15th World Federation of the Deaf Congress in Spain with the theme “Human Rights Through Sign Language” and the celebration of the entry into force in the Philippines of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Projections: A Collection of New Shorts

A compilation of 11 short films.
July 12, 2008 Saturday, 6:15 pm CCP Little Theater

Below is the full line-up:

Ultimo
Documentary

Director:
Khavn De La Cruz

Synopsis:
Ultimo explores Filipino identity and nationhood through scenes from a poetic documentary of Khavn's meanderings in Spain interspersed with lines from Jose Rizal's Mi Ultimo Adios.

Contest:

NEIL GAIMAN and FULLY BOOKED
present

The 3rd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards

    After two successful years of exploring Filipino Unrealism through prose fiction and comics, the Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards opens its third with a new category: short film.

    All Filipino citizens may send their original entries in the prose fiction, comics, and short film categories to any Fully Booked branch.

    The winning prose and comics entries will be compiled and published by Fully Booked, with a foreword by Neil Gaiman. All winning short films will be screened on awarding day.