...the Mexican filmfest winner

'Thelma' wins at Mexican film fest, to compete in Madrid

 

By JULIEN MERCED C. MATABUENA

April 26, 2012

Manila Bulletin

 

 

'Thelma' is Time Horizon Pictures' first project (Photo courtesy of the 'Thelma' Facebook page)

MANILA, Philippines – The Paul Soriano-helmed indie flick, “Thelma,” was among 10 films that bagged the Bronze Palm Award at the 2012 Mexico International Film Festival.


“Thelma” was part of the festival’s Feature Film Competition. The nine other winning films as listed on the festival’s official website are “Dia de Preto” by Marcial Renato, Marcos Felipe Delfino, and Daniel Mattos; “Guadalupe the Virgin” by Victoria Giordana; “Nijiiro Hotaru” by Kounosuke Uda; “Random 8” by Kathryn Millard; “Salsa Tel Aviv” by Jorje Weller; “Teenagers” by Paul Verhoeven; “The Custom Mary” by Matt Dunnerstick; “The Last Cry” by Reza Ghassemi; and “The Pact” by Matt Toronto.


Time Horizon Pictures that produced the movie wrote on its website that the film won “for demonstrating excellent and outstanding film-making.”


More, also from to the THP website, “Thelma” will be competing at the 2012 Madrid International Film Festival in June, where it scored Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography nominations. In August, it will be screened at the 3rd New York City International Film Festival.


Prior the MIFF win, “Thelma” clinched three awards at the 28th PMPC Star Awards for Movies held in March: Digital Movie Screen Writer of the Year (Froilan Medina and Paul Soriano), Digital Movie Director of the Year (Soriano), and Digital Movie of the Year.


The Maja Salvador-starrer based on the lives of Filipino runners had also been invited to various international film festivals since its release on September 2011, including the 22nd CineQuest Film Festival, the 36th Cleveland International Film Festival, and the 31st Hawaii International Film Festival.