28 March 2014 - The Philippine documentary film “Phoning from the Philippines” and a feature film “Thy Womb” were screened during the Philippine Movie Night held at the open ground of the Philippine Consulate General on March 20. The screening was part of the 7th Asian Consuls General Club (ACGC) Film Festival 2014, organized by the Asian Consuls General Club (ACGC). The festival started on March 10 and will conclude on March 31, and features 11 movies from Japan, Brunei, Korea, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, India, China, Singapore, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia.
Around 300 people consisting of diplomats (including officers and staff and spouses of the Consulate), foreign nationals and movie lovers from the Filipino community and Philippine curriculum schools in Jeddah. The annual festival provided an opportunity for the Philippine Consulate to showcase recent advances in Philippine independent cinema while promoting its public and cultural diplomacy programs.
In his welcome remarks, Consul General Uriel Norman R. Garibay, welcomed the guests and thanked them for coming. He also thanked the donors for their support and commended the Philippine Consulate staff for preparing the place and coming up with a beautiful setting for the evening’s film showing. Before the screening of “Thy Womb”, Consul General Garibay, with pride, informed the guests about the several acclamations the film had garnered. He mentioned that the film, which is directed by Brillante Mendoza (who was kind enough to provide the Consulate with a free DVD copy), and starred in by Nora Aunor, Bembol Roco and Lovi Poe, a multi awarded stars had been exhibited in several international film festival and had won several awards both internationally and locally.
During the film showing, guests were given a taste of Philippine food products that include San Miguel beer, a non-alcoholic beer, buko juice; chocolate cookies; empanada; buko pandan; and pancit canton. After the film screening, the official video of “The Philippines says Thank You” was shown to the audience as a way of thanking the world for the help 
extended to the victims of the typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).
The night was capped with the raffle of prizes which include baskets of Philippine food products and the guests left the venue delighted and entertained with the films they saw, the food served and some promotional items received. For the depth of symbolisms in story (set in an Islamic community), superb direction and outstanding audio and cinematography, “Thy Womb” was well-acclaimed during the film night. END