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The special screening of the Chris Martinez film 100 at the MY
Cinema in Greenbelt served as a send-off to the stars who will
represent the film and the country in the Marrakech International
Film festival in Morocco.
Lead stars Mylene Dizon and Eugene Domingo are
leaving for Morocco tomorrow with the film director and hopefully
they’ll come home with good news next week. Both Mylene and Eugene
have won acting awards for the film, which also bagged the $20,000
Audience Award when it competed at the Busan International Film
festival in Korea last month.
Mylene, who is four months pregnant with her
second child, is excited. “ I wasn’t able to attend the Busan
filmfest so I’m making sure that I go this time. My doctors have
given me the go signal to travel and I’m sure it will be an
enriching experience.”
On the other hand, Eugene feels good that making
quality independent films bring her to different places. “Working
on indie films do not pay as much as we normally get, but the
tradeoffs are priceless. Actors are treated very well and
compensation is always given on time. I’ve been to Korea and now,
I’m going to Morocco. Life is fair indeed.”
The film, which was recently graded A by the
Cinema Evaluation Board, will have its commercial run starting
December 3, distributed by
Star Cinema.
-- Michael Sj Lim
Geoff Eigenmann and Maja Salvador in a special
love story
After winning the Catholic Mass Media Award for best
drama anthology, Charo Santos-Concio’s Maalaala Mo Kaya has again,
come up with a wonderful story that will feature two of the most
promising young actors of ASB-CBN: Geoff Eigenmann and Maja
Salvador. The special episode will air tomorrow night.
The team-up is obviously part of a bigger plan
for the comeback of these two stars after being given good breaks in
the past. Maja’s career seems to be going downhill after a
much-hyped entry in showbiz last year. She even landed endorsement
deals but even these didn’t help her momentum. Undeniably a good
actress, Maja is in dire need of a project that will redefine her.
Her last outing on film with Ryan Agoncillo was a major flop — we
couldn’t even remember the title.
Meanwhile, Geoff is one of the best looking that
the Eigenmann clan has produced but after his leading man stint in
the TV drama series Hiram, his career took a dive, too. People say
that he is too chubby to be a matinee idol but the last time we saw
him, Geoff has already lost considerable weight. “I do boxing
regularly, “ we remember him telling us. Some production people
say that he has a tendency to be bulol when delivering his lines and
we think that he is aware of this, and is trying his best to correct
his speaking skills.
We learned that this episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya
is a heart-wrenching episode under the direction of Henry Quitain,
Geoff will portray a role of a man who is never serious in his
romantic relationships, and then meets and falls in love Maja, which
will give way to change.
-- Ed Pangilinan
The very first Internet teleradyo
Technology is something we cannot stop from
evolving.
Radio station NU107, home of rock music in the
country, has recently team-up with tech-savvy Fliptunes.net to bring
the first-ever teleradyo on the internet.
This project came about when Fliptunes president
Ronald Aniceto mentioned that most of the songs downloaded by our
kababayans overseas are with reference to what they see on Filipino
TV channels abroad. “It certainly does not update them on current
hits from other genres available from their homeland,” he
explains.
Of the thousands of tracks available for online
purchase by overseas Filipinos, only around 40 percent are used due
mainly to familiarity. “We are hoping that marketing local music
on the internet will make a difference in giving consumers a wider
choice and improve movements of other available good music, which
the Philippines has a lot of, “ Aniceto adds.
NU107 station manager Cris Hermosisima says of
the venture: “These are exciting times for radio. We are proud to
be the carrier of Filipino music abroad and the better part is that
our kababayans will get to appreciate our radio shows visually this
time. It also widens our reach to local listeners who spends a lot
of time on their laptops.”
-- Johanna M. Sampan
Miss Masbate makes waves
Anna Karina Jardin, the 19-year-old Turismo
Pilipina 2008 aspirant from Masbate, took center stage recently at
the talent and cultural segment of the pageant with an extraordinary
rendition of a Yakan courtship dance. She hails from San Jacinto,
Masbate and is a foreign service student and a folk dance
enthusiast.
Dancing to live musical accompaniment, the
doe-eyed beauty performed a difficult routine with flair and grace
that charmed the audience at the Amoranto Stadium Jardin, along with
63 other aspirants from all over the Philippines, paraded in their
regional costumes with 10 of them joining the talent portion.
In 2006, Jardin represented the Philippines at
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organizations, “Mon Dialogo” symposium in Rome, Italy. Recently,
she also attended the World Youth Day in Australia as a member of
the Philippine delegation. The Turismo Pilipina pageant finals is
scheduled tonight, November 14 at the AFP Theater in Camp Aguinaldo,
Quezon City.
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