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Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
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Dark brilliance |
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Cannes Film Festival best director award-winner
Brillante Mendoza
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By Rome Jorge
To know Brillante Mendoza, one must understand
what he is not. And by doing so, one reveals not only the director
but also the industry and the society he both lives with and strives
to be apart from.
He is not an entertainer. Mendoza is not out to
please the eyes with pretty scenes or satiate hearts with feel-good
fantasies. He does not offer eye candy, popcorn fare or even a value
meal. What he dishes is raw, unappetizing truth—a bitter pill to
some, soul food to others and an acquired taste regardless. With the
silver screen as his canvas, he avoids the decorative and instead
paints with dark colors the indelible images with which to tattoo
the conscience. “I’m a social realist,” he admits.
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O T H E R F E A T U R E S
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THE FILIPINO CHAMPION
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DOH to deploy 15 new barrio doctors
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During Dr. Juan Flavier’s stint as Secretary of the health
department, he identified at least 181 impoverished barrios
throughout the country that need health and medical attention.
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New heroes to be honored this September
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Bato Balani Foundation continues with its advocacy of finding
exemplary teachers to inspire thousand others.
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Filipino children paintings win awards in Taiwan exhibition
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Ambassador Donald C.T. Lee, representative of the Taipei Economic
& Cultural Office (TECO) in the Philippines, on behalf of the
ROC (Taiwan) offers his congratulations to the awardees whose
excellent art works merited recognition...
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THE LITERARY LIFE
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THE MATS
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For the Angeles family, Mr. Angeles’ homecoming from his periodic
inspection trips was always an occasion for celebration. But this
homecoming—from a trip to the South—was fated to be more
memorable than any of the others.
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Reuel Molina Aguila named as 2009 Palanca Hall of Fame Awardee
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The 59th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature honored
literary professor and multiawarded book and screenplay writer Reuel
Molina Aguila as this year’s recipient of the Hall of Fame Award.
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From inkblots to journalists
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To promote press excellence and foster camaraderie among campus
journalists all over the country, The Varsitarian, the 81-year-old
official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, will
hold Inkblots 2009: the 11th UST National...
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Look who’s caught reading
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FORMER Pinoy Big Brother teen housemate and MYX VJ Robi Domingo
joins fellow Ateneans and youth role models Nikki Gil and Chris Tiu
as the latest celebrity endorser of the National.
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Let ‘The Hunger Games’ begin
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The Hunger Games trilogy by best-selling author Suzanne Collins is
the hottest new teen series that is taking the world by storm.
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THE
SCRIBE VIBE
By Libay Linsangan Cantor
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When your
writing comes to life on screen
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Scriptwriters must already be used to seeing their works on screen,
whether they write for television or film, especially the veterans
who have been writing for a long time. Of course this is applicable
to those writers whose works actually made it to production. But
then again, that’s another discourse altogether.
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THE GREEN REVOLUTION
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Dreams of the forest
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When we arrived at the Caliraya Lake Watershed to participate in
Haribon’s ROAD to 2020 campaign, my friends and I had one thing in
our minds—plant native trees.
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PROFILE
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Trees are life
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Carmelita Hansel, a professor and director of Research for Mindanao
State University, grew up in a rural area in Guinobatan, Albay, was
already interested in plants at an early age.
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GREEN SPACE
By Reena Francisco
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Green design for
stores, products and menus
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I have been challenged with building and designing small retail
spaces for over 15 years now. Small retail shops have to be
efficiently planned to maximize the steep rental fees in the metro.
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GAME
TIME
By Ed Richelle Uy
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‘Runes of Magic’
casts spell on Pinoy gamers
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Gamers looking for a western-style high-fantasy massively
multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) are in for a treat, as
E-games revealed its newest online game last week. Developed by
Taiwan-based Runewaker Entertainment, Runes...
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