Philippine Film Awards - Cinemanila International Film Festival, Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award, Gawad Urian Awards (Paperback)

Chapters: Cinemanila International Film Festival, Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award, Gawad Urian Awards, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, Film Awards Bodies in the Philippines, Gawad Genio Awards, 2nd Gawad Genio Awards, Gawad Urian Award for Best Picture. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Cinemanila International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Manila, the Philippines. It was founded by Filipino filmmaker Amable "Tikoy" Aguiluz in 1999. The focus of the festival is on the cinema of the Philippines as well as Southeast Asian cinema. In the festival's competitive section, the top award is the Lino Brocka Award, given in honor of the acclaimed Filipino director, Lino Brocka. It is also a cash prize. As of 2007, the cash award was 250,000 Philippine pesos. Another award, the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema, was first given at the 2000 festival, in honor of Filipino director Ishmael Bernal, to young independent Filipino filmmakers. As of 2007, the cash prize for the Ishmael Bernal Award was 70,000 Philippine dollars. The second Cinemanila was held from July 3 to 10, 1999 in Mandaluyong City. It was the first international film festival in the Philippines since the Manila International Film Festival, which had been held in the 1980s. (There is the Metro Manila Film Festival, but it is a national festival screening only Filipino films.) The festival featured a lecture on cinematography by Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The festival has typically been a low-key affair in terms of red-carpet visits by foreign celebrities. However in 2003, the festival honored Hollywood stars with Filipino-American roots, and was graced by Lou Diamond Phillips, Tia Carrere, Dean Devlin a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=12807839