10 March 2017 NEW YORK – A 28-year-old Manila-born Filipino-American filmmaker has been awarded the US$ 10,000 2017 All Access Grant by the prestigious Tribeca Film Institute (TFI).
Dean Colin Marcial’s feature film screenplay, “The Green Guerrillas” chronicles the rise and fall of an eco-terrorist group over an “explosive decade” in the Philippines. The film will receive a year-round support from TFI and will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival from April 19-30 in New York City.
“Writing always feels like shouting into a void,” Marcial says. “It’s nice to know that sometimes it shouts back. I’m incredibly grateful for Tribeca’s support – I actually volunteered there my senior year in high school. To be a grantee ten years later leaves me speechless.”
Marcial is producing the film with Manila-based Tuko Film Productions/Buchi Boy Entertainment/Artikulo Uno Productions the team behind acclaimed films such as “Heneral Luna,” “Sunday Beauty Queen,” and “I’m Drunk, I Love You” and New York-based Tandem Pictures (“The Eyes of My Mother,” “The Sleepwalker”).
Marcial’s previous short film “Manila Death Squad” starring Sid Lucero and Annicka Dolonius is in post-production and was screened as a work-in-progress at the 10th Borscht Film Festival. He is also the co-founder of Calavera USA, an award-winning production company whose credits include “All That I Am,” “Fishtail,” and “Yearbook.” His first film “The God Phone” won Best World Short at the 2012 Little Rock Film Festival.
The Philippine Consulate General in New York through Consul General Theresa Dizon-De Vega congratulated Marcial and expressed its support for his projects as part of its commitment to help promote and elevate awareness of Filipino and Filipino-American filmmakers and films. END
