Filipino films score trophies abroad
By: Regina Mae Parungao
There’s no stopping Filipino films from conquering big festivals abroad.
Louie Ignacio’s short feature “Ngiti Ni Nazareno” bagged the Jury Award at the 2019 Innuendo International Film Festival in Milan, Italy.
Starring child actor Kenken Nuyad, the synopsis of the 15-minute film reads: “Nazareno’s birthday falls on a very special day, as thousands of people move through the streets of Manila. When he comes back to his mother after the festival, with a piece of aluminum foil as a gift, of all things, it is touching and shaking at once.”
SCENES FROM ‘Ngiti Ni Nazareno’ ; ‘Musmos Na Sumibol Sa Gitna Ng Digma’
“Ngiti” was an entry to the 5th Sinag Maynila Film Festival, where it won 3rd place in the short film category. Iar Arondaing’s “Musmos Na Sumibol Sa Gubat ng Digma” took home the Best Cinematography Award for Mac Cosico at the Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz-Film Art 2019 in Portugal.
It was originally released as part of the 2018 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Sound in the full-length feature film category.
The movie is about an old man who recounts the coming-of-age tale of a young Muslim girl named Eshal (Junyka Sigrid Santarin). She is forced to hide in the forest with her infant brother Affan to escape the violence of the inter-familial dispute (locally called “Rido”) that has plagued her family. In the forest, he meets a boy named Farhan (JM Salvado) with whom she develops a friendship as they wait for adults to find them and bring them back to their families.
The film will be screened at the Baikal International Film Festival in Russia this month.
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