Filipino Filmmaker Garners Award in Paris
PARIS 08 November 2018 – Filipino filmmaker Arjanmar Rebeta garnered the “Trouble with New Technologies Award” during the 16th International Festival of Signs of the Night held at the Cite Universitaire de Paris in Paris, France from 04 to 14 October 2018.
Entitled “Palabas (A Country in Moving Pictures)”, the story is about an aging Caucasian who chats with his young Filipina lover, only to witness the harsh social ills and injustices around the life of the Filipina. The film runs for 16 minutes and was shot entirely with a mobile phone.
The film garnered several awards such as the Best Mobile Film during the 18th season of the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival in India and Second Prize Winner during the 30th Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video under the Short Feature category.
Started in 2003, the International Festival of Signs of the Night gathers films from different countries that reflect new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experimentation.
The festival features films and audio-visual works that test new audio-visual languages and showcases current problems and situations of present the present society. END
Official poster and certificate of award. (Paris PE photo)
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