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The University of the Philippines Film Institute
mounts its own celebration for environmental awareness with a
distinct program of films for the last two weekends of April. The
main highlight will feature a marathon of screenings for Guimaras—Short
Films from the Oil Spill on April 20 and April 21 at 7 p.m.
Featured are the works by
independent filmmakers all tackling the effects of the oil spill on
the environment and the lives of the people on Guimaras Island in
Iloilo.
Among the directors behind the
acclaimed shorts are Drei Boquiren, Jeck Cogama, Khavn de la Cruz,
Wilfred Allen Galila, Rox Lee, Raya Martin, Oscar Nava, Seymour
Sanchez, Ann Shy, Victor Louie Villanueva, JP Carpio, Emman de la
Cruz, Kidlat de Guia, Milo Paz, Kidlat Tahimik and Paolo Villaluna.
The much awaited UP Film
Institute showcase of Guimaras—Short Films from the Oil Spill will
be preceded on April 20 by I Dreamed of Africa from director Hugh
Hudson of Chariots of Fire fame and on April 21 by the legendary
filmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams.
Up next: starting April 26 at 5
p.m., a series of screenings for this year’s Oscar winner for Best
Documentary Feature, An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Davis
Guggenheim, the docu-feature hallmarks Al Gore’s crusade to raise
awareness on the issue of global warming.
Other screenings for the film are
on April 27 at 2 and 7 p.m. and April 28 at 7 p.m. Completing this
year’s cycle for UP Film Institute’s green festivities is
another masterpiece from Kurosawa—a Japanese co-production with
Russia, Dersu Uzala. The film screens only on April 28 at 2 p.m.
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