Director Carl Joseph Papa accepts the best film award for Manang Biring together with Erlinda Villalobos who plays the titular role
The animation was disconcerting in the beginning for sure. Usually animation is used as an introductory and transition device in our films, especially when we are being made to imagine storytelling that works intertextually with other media such as comic books. I had thought—without knowing what the film was going to be about—that this was also only being used as a device for storytelling.