THE 15th edition of the Cinemalaya Film Festival presents a kaleidoscope of cinema from the Asian region through Visions of Asia, a major component of the country’s largest independent film festival. Four award-winning NETPAC films and three Asian indie films will convey Asian sensibilities to film enthusiasts, which will be screened on August 3 to 10, at various CCP venues. Advertisements
FOR its 15th year, Cinemalaya makes a striking move when it decides to open the film festival with Lav Diaz’s “Ang Hupa (The Halt)” on August 2, 6pm at CCP Main Theater lobby. For the first time in the film festival’s history, Cinemalaya will screen a four-hour-and-thirty-minute film to kickstart the most anticipated cinematic event in the country. Known for defying filmmaking traditions, Filipino director Diaz has been a hardcore believer of slow cinema movement, having written and produced numerous films with longest narratives. Also, Diaz films have been known for being politically charged, with themes depicting the harsh social and political realities happening in the country. He is the creative brain behind some of the best independent films in recent years, including “Batang West Side,” “Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis,” “Ang Babaeng Humayo,” “Norte, the End of History,” among others. This screening is a homecoming of sort for Diaz’s “Ang Hupa” after making its world premiere at the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight, the non-competition section of Cannes Film Festival, in France early this year. The film …
A thesis exhibition of the graduating visual arts class from the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) billed as Tagu-Tagpuan is on view at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (Little Theater Lobby). The display, which opened last May 23, will run until June 30, 2019.
CINEMALAYA Foundation Inc. received the prestigious Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture and Community for its valuable efforts “to shed a new light on the country’s film industry, which had been viewed as dead following a huge decline in production.” Based on the Nikkei citation, “the name Cinemalaya is a portmanteau of Filipino words reflecting the founders’ belief that cinema, ‘cine,’ could enliven consciousness, ‘malay,’ by telling stories in a free and independent manner, ‘malaya.’”
THE sixth season of CCP Met Opera in HD culminates with “Norma,” Vincenzo Bellini’s two-act opera, to be screened on June 11, at 6:30 p.m., at Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3. Known for its bel canto genre, the opera tells the story about Norma, a Druid high priestess who broke her chastity vows and had two children with Pollione, a Roman proconsul.
INSPIRED by the successful outcome of TERNOCON 2018, the first ever Terno Making Convention and Contest held last year at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the CCP and Bench/Suyen Corporation join efforts again to pursue its mission of preserving and promoting the Philippine national dress with TERNOCON 2020 on January 26.
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) will hold the regional launch of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (2nd edition) on May 24, 2019, 5pm, at the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art (ILOMOCA).
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines will host the first Asia Choral Grand Prix on July 21, 2019. The Asia Choral Grand Prix is a competition of the top prize winners of the following international choral festivals in Asia: the Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival (Philippines), the Bali International Choir Festival (Indonesia), and the Singapore International Choral Festival (Singapore).
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines presents a reworking of the Dead Whale for its 2019 Earth Day Outdoor Installation beginning April 25, 2019 at the CCP Front Lawn, aimed at urging more people to talk about what can be done regarding plastic pollution.
“BAKA NAMAN HINDI”, the Filipino adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s play “La Puce L’Oreille” (“A Flea in Her Ear”) returns onstage at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) from April 25 to 28, 2019 (3pm and 8pm).
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines celebrated the 15th anniversary of Pasinaya themed as “Karapatan, Kalayaan at Kultura” last February 1-3, 2019.
COINCIDING with the 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the CCP Outreach Program kicks off its Ruby Year this 2019 with a performance series at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater) featuring four regional collaborative productions.
