Manila Dyke Nights (original) (raw)

Lunduyan ng Sining
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As Reel as Queer

A night of Filipino Lesbian Films and Music

November 26, Monday, Mag:net Katipunan
Happy starts 9 pm, Screening starts 9:30
Electrifying Music follows

Featuring:

“Hindi ako Tomboy”
(short film, 2 mins.) by Amrei Dizon

“Babae”
(short film, 20 mins.) by Sigrid Bernardo
Cinemalaya 2005 Winner for Best Direction

"Pandora"
(short film) by Tara BoschSantelices & Joee Mejias

"Sakdal Laya"
(35mm short film, 15 mins.) by Tey Clamor
Philippine official entry to the 2007
Student Oscars competition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences (AMPAS), the award-giving body of the Oscar awards

Music from:
Konvoy
Saffron Speedway
Blush
Mat
Ria Munoz
Engkantada

Join our motion. P150 gets you in with a free beer. We hope to see you there :)

"Hindi Ako Tomboy"
by Amrei Dizon

A 90-second 16mm film about a woman's quest, denial and acceptance of her sexual identity.

Amrei Dizon is a video editor, multimedia artist and managing partner of Vitalstrats Creative Solutions. She has edited a number of short and full-length films including Cinemalaya's Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo by Nick Olanka and was nominated as best editor for Ed Lejano's SEROKS a Cinemaone Original Film. She took up BFA Viscom in UP Diliman. The 16mm film, "Hindi Ako Tomboy" is an output from her Cinematography workshop at Mowelfund Film Institure in 2005.

"Pandora"
by Stormy

Any crisis, be it a failed relationship or a loved one’s death, leads one to question his own identity & Weltanschauung. What went wrong along the way? Would the world be my refuge, or my own version of hell? Pandora is a surreal, disjointed study of looking at the ways people cope with these questions. One can shut himself off from everything else, or one can lose himself among everything the world can offer, in an effort to repair his fragmented identity. In the end, the choice is a gamble; anything can open the floodgates to more pain & emptiness. Pandora says: ask & you shall receive; but what it is you’ll receive, you are never sure.

Pandora was part of a series of 4 youth-directed short films called Cyclorama, which dealt with the self's seach for identity & unanswered questions.

Stormy is the collaborative effort between Tara BoschSantelices & Joee Mejias. With Joee's background in production design & Tara's in political science, their works merge both surreal & challenging aesthetics & intelligent social/ideological commentary using different media, such as video,graphics, sketches, short stories,& music. They are inspired by such material as vintage science fiction, the surrealist & expressionist movements, Neo-Gramscian & queer theories, & industrial/electron ic music.

"Sakdal Laya"
by Tey Clamor

Directed by Tey Clamor, this experimental film frames visual images of women in a patriarchal society, heightened by vignettes of violence and sexual abuse. The film is the country's official entry to the 2007 Student Oscars competition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the award-giving body of the Oscar awards.

Tey Clamor is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts, Major in Film and Audio Visual Communication at the University of The Philippines – Film Institute. She made a few short films that garnered some outstanding feedback from different student film festivals, here and abroad. She was invited as a participant to the 2006 Berlinale Talent Campus, in Germany. Sakdal Laya, her thesis film was in competition at last year’s Cinemanila and Beijing International Film Festival.

Currently, she is an apprentice to director/cinematogr apher Nap Jamir and to Commercial Director Henry Frejas. She is now in pre production on “Paslit Puslit” (Young Thief), her first endeavor to full length films as a director and scriptwriter.

"Babae"
by Sigrid Bernardo

BABAE (WOMAN) is a coming of age story of two women who grew up together in the city slum community beside railroad tracks. They become best friends during childhood, shared dreams during teenage years and eventually started a family during adulthood when a child accidentally entered their lives. Real Stories of Women and a Man were added to give this color to this black and white film A mixture of Drama, Comedy, Musical and Fantasy that will surely touch the Pinoy Heart in You.

Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo is a Theater Actress and a First Time Independent Filmmaker. She has worked with Dulaang UP, Tanghalang Pilipino, CCP and other Major Theater Companies. She is one of the Actress in Lav Diaz 10 hour film Ebolusyon ng Pamilyang Pilipino and recently directed her first controversial play Sister Outlaw by Lanie Montreal at the Virgin Labfest. Babae marks her directorial debut.