BANGUED, Abra -- The
province is joining celebration of the centennial of the Philippine Cinema with
the Abrenian Heritage Film Festival.
The festival
aims to discover, encourage, and support the aspiring filmmakers from the
province to articulate, interpret and express the Abrenian cultural
heritage through filmmaking in short film or documentary.
Open to all
teachers and students of the Dept. of Education in the 27 municipalities of
Abra, the festival gives opportunity to aspiring and talented filmmakers to
showcase their skills and abilities in cinematography.
Entries for
short film should be five minutes and 10 minutes for documentary.
Deadline of
submission of entries will be August 31, 2019 at the Abra Schools Division
Office (SDO). Interested individuals may visit Abra SDO for the mechanics,
entry forms and other information.
The very
first provincial film festival is rheaded by Film Ambassador and multi-awarded
Abrenian filmmaker Dexter Macaraeg’s Sine Abreño and the Film Development
Council of the Philippines (FDCP) in partnership with DepEd Abra and Philippine
Information Agency -Abra Information Center.
Artist
Macaraeg described the Abrenian Heritage Film Festival, his
brainchild, as a venue and platform that will value their outputs in terms
of narrative, characters and technical aspects and how this creatively elements
weaved together into one coherent whole production using the elements of
cinema.
Macaraeg is
the founder of Sine Abreño which is recognized by the FDCP as provincial film
ambassador and accredited by the Department of Trade and Industry.
Macaraeg had
earlier conducted multiple seminar-workshops on filmmaking in schools in the
different towns in the province, and he hopes the participants will be able to
craft their films with competitiveness and creativity.
He also
spearheaded a film symposium in Bangued with over 100 schools teachers participated.
With support from the FDCP, there were sessions on understanding film through
education, creating film synergy in the student body and crash course on
filmmaking for educators.
“This is the
first ever film festival of Abra. This has never been done in the past and it
is their chance to exhibit their short films and documentaries in big screens,”
Macaraeg said. (JDP/CAGT- PIA-CAR, Abra)
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