.MOV International Film, Music, & Literature Festival

It is indeed the Opening.MOV this September 1, 2011. Thursday. 1:30pm to 11pm at The Podium, Activity Center. ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City

Here are the schedules:

1:30pm: 4th SILVERSHORTS 2011: Philippine Short Film Competition (Various Directors, Philippines. 2hrs, 5min)

3:30pm: SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR
(Roy Andersson, Sweden. 1hr, 38min)
In a sour, gray city, filled with pale drunken salarymen and parading flagellants, everything goes wrong, pain is laughed at, businesses fail, traffic seizes up and a girl is made into a human sacrifice to save a corporation. Roy Andersson's "Songs From the Second Floor" is a collision at the intersection of farce and tragedy--the apocalypse as a joke on us.

6pm: Cocktails

7pm: Opening Ceremonies

FOR ALEXIS & NIKA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul [Thailand], John Gianvito [USA], Hannah Slak [Slovenia]. 15min)
With a live score by THE BROCKAS (Roxlee, Lav Diaz, Khavn De La Cruz, John Torres, Norman Wilwayco, Roberto Nicolas, & Arvie Bartolome)

Presentation of the SILVERSHORTS Finalists:
1. JAN PHILIPPE V. CARPIO: Coverage
2. RICHMOND GARCIA: Numbalikdiwa
3. TIMMY HARN: Panty
4. CHUCK HIPOL: Man of the House
5. JON LAZAM: Hindi Sa Atin Ang Buwan [The Moon Is Not Ours]
6. JET LEYCO: Patlang [Blank]
7. GYM LUMBERA: Dahil Sa ‘Yo [Because Of You]
8. MARK MIRABUENOS: Gupit [Cut]
9. LITO TABAY: Undo
10. ALVIN YAPAN: Panibugho [Jealousy]

And the SILVERSHORTS International Jury Members
1. Chris Fujiwara (Japan)
2. Joel Shepard (USA)
3. Vanja Kaludjercic (Croatia)
4. Kong Rithdee (Thailand)
5. Zhang Wenjie (Singapore)
6. Lourd De Veyra (Philippines)

DVD Launch of “CINEMA IS LOVE: Best Of .MOV”

NIKALEXIS.MOV (Various Directors, Philippines. 30min)
– 1 minute shortfilms dedicated to Alexis Tioseco & Nika Bohinc

9pm: Opening Film:
YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER
(Tan Chui Mui, Malaysia. 1hr 27min)
A sensitive film, constructed as ebb and flow. In the first part, old friends look back on their childhood by the light of the moon. In the second part, young people come together in a place in the sun. The director of "Love Conquers All," Rotterdam winner in 2007, shot the film in the Malaysian village where she was born.
The first part of Year Without a Summer is set largely in the moonlight. On the evening when the singer Azam returns to the village he was so eager to flee as a little boy, he goes fishing in a boat with his friend Ali and his friend’s wife Minah.
They bob around in a boat as they tell each other old myths. When Minah shows she can hold her breath for three minutes and Azam does the same later, the camera waits calmly with the others until the time has passed. But for Azam that starts to last a very long time.

4th .MOV International Film, Music, & Literature Festival
September 1 to 6, 2011
The Podium, Ayala Museum, Greenbelt 3 Park, & UP Film Center
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