First Philippine Film Festival in UAE Celebrates Pinoy Culture
BY GULF NEWS ON December 1, 2011 CATEGORIZED UNDER FILIPINO ARTISTS, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Comments (0)
The first Philippine Film Festival in the UAE finally rolled out its red carpet on Friday afternoon with Filipino film luminaries attending the two-day event. Organised under the theme “Our Films, Our Culture”, the festival featured four award-winning Filipino movies screened in selected theatres in Dubai.
The film festival, organised by Kitsch Company in partnership with the Movie Workers Welfare Fund (Mowelfund), a Philippine-based organisation of actors and film industry workers founded by former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, opened with a free symposium with Mowelfund executive director Boots Anson-Roa and actor-director Soxie Topacio as speakers.“It took us about a year to make this event happen with a lot of planning and coordination. It took us very long to have a Filipino film festival here in the UAE for many reasons; the local sensitivities that we need to consider when showing our films here is one of the major factors, along with the huge cost of having such an event,” said Johann Obet Conti Ramos, managing partner of Kitsch Company, who also announced that they will be organising the festival annually.
The symposium included a screening of “Botelya”, which casts Anson-Roa with Anita Linda, Caridad Sanchez, Angel Aquino, Alessandra de Rossi, Katrina Halili, and Rosa Rosal. Botelya, a bronze winner at Cannes in 2009, spans three generations of mothers separated by divergent social conditions but united in their selfless and unconditional love to their children.
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