PHIL.-Violent lives filmed by real gang members (1 viewing) (1) Guest
Favoured: 0
|
|
|
TOPIC: PHIL.-Violent lives filmed by real gang members
|
Always (Moderator)
Moderator
Posts: 1057
|
|
Re:PHIL.-Violent lives filmed by real gang members 1 Year, 1 Month ago
|
Karma: 19
|
PHILIPPINES-
Award-winning science fiction, Pinoy-style
Last updated 06:47pm (Mla time) 08/21/2007
MANILA, Philippines—Youth channel Animax recently unveiled the winners of the Animax Awards, the channel’s inaugural Pan-Asia animation scriptwriting competition. One of the winners is a Filipino!
The winning entry from the Philippines, called “Laminated Woman,” is by Carmelo Juinio. Its story is set in a harsh desert planet where the inhabitants have perfected Lamination—a system of imprisonment without walls which ensures that prisoners remain productive members of society. The system has made both jails and the death penalty unnecessary.
Juinio’s story is also about Dr. John “Jack” Griswold, who works so he can forget about a personal tragedy. Jack doesn’t have any desire to get involved with the planet’s curious politics, but everything changes when he meets a “Lamb” or a laminated person.
“Aside from that nudge in the right direction [from the contest], the inspiration came from various sources,” says Juinio of his story’s beginnings. “The science-fiction notion of having people laminated was inspired mainly by Darth Vader, “The Man in the Iron Mask,” the homunculi of “Fullmetal Alchemist,” an episode of “Dexter’s Laboratory” where Dexter literally laminated himself (like an ID), memories of an old ’80s or ’90s video, “Simply Irresistible” and “Blade Runner.”
The story theme, on the other hand (summarized by the tagline “Sometimes you don’t need words”), was inspired by the writer’s own difficulty in talking to people and his aversion to cell phones.
“I personally don’t own a cell phone,” says Juinio.
Writing the entry took Juinio a little under a month, although the idea was something that had been floating in his head for several years.
“A love story between people who have trouble communicating,” is how he puts it. “The story was to have been part of a much larger cycle, a novel about Laminated People, which I had been too lazy or too terrified to write down. Seeing the impossibility of developing a totally brand new idea within the contest period, I reduced the laminated people to a single laminated woman.”
Grand finals
Juinio, along with four other entries (South East Asia/Malaysia’s “Guardian Invader” by Alvin Lim, India’s “Scarlet Samurai” by Aravind K. Prakash, Hong Kong’s “Serial Burglary” by Kong Khong Chang, and Taiwan’s “The Final Dream Match” by Yu Dong Bing), won US$2,000 for his efforts. These five entries will move on to the grand finals in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2007.
They will compete against the single Korean and six Japanese winners that came from the respective Korean and Japanese versions of the competition. Not only will the grand prize winner win a cash prize of two million yen, the winning script will also be animated by a top Japanese animation studio, A-1 Pictures of Aniplex, and eventually broadcast across Asia on Animax.
Animax is also giving viewers the chance to support their favorite entry among the 12 finalists through a web poll launched last Aug. 7. The synopses of the 12 entries will be posted online at www.animaxawards.com and viewers will have until Sept. 1 to vote for their favorite script.
Visit www.animaxawards.com for more info and win one of 50 Animax prize packs up for grabs (each containing a Gundam figurine and Animax goodies) just by voting for your favorite entry in the Web Poll!
Juinio says that if his entry wins, “It could represent a step forward, no matter how small, toward promoting science fiction in a country better known for fantasies about mythical monsters that go bump in the night.”
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/you/2bu/view_article.php?
article_id=83865
|
|
|
|
 Logged
|
|
|
Evil shall triumph only, when good people do nothing to stop it...
|
|
|
The administrator has disabled public write access.
|
Always (Moderator)
Moderator
Posts: 1057
|
|
Re:PHIL.-Violent lives filmed by real gang members 1 Year, 1 Month ago
|
Karma: 19
|
diamond wrote:
QUOTE:
Yeah. That's true.
Here are the actor-gang members:
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/
view_article.php?article_id=84827
And they've been winning in film festivals in the Philippines.
These gang-actors have won 2 Best Actor awards (Ensemble Acting) in two film festivals.
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/
view_article.php?article_id=83410
http://jimdiamond.multiply.com/journal/item/19/
Film_on_Tondo_Youth_Gangs_Wins_Best_Film_in_Cinemalaya_2007_clicktheci
ty.com
thanks diamond,
hope you can also add more informations about our very own philippine film industry in our forum boards-
we are looking forward to it- 
by the way what happened to the film?
and the participants as well?
regards
linsi<br><br>Post edited by: linsi, at: 2007/08/28 07:38
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
Evil shall triumph only, when good people do nothing to stop it...
|
|
|
The administrator has disabled public write access.
|
diamond (User)
Fresh Boarder
Posts: 3
|
|
Re:PHIL.-Violent lives filmed by real gang members 1 Year, 1 Month ago
|
Karma: 0
|
linsi wrote:
QUOTE:
thanks diamond,
hope you can also add more informations about our very own philippine film industry in our forum boards-
we are looking forward to it-:)
by the way what happened to the film?
and the participants as well?
regards
linsi<br><br>Post edited by: linsi, at: 2007/08/28 07:38
The film, TRIBU, won 3 awards at the Cinemalaya Film Festival in Manila.
I think it will compete at the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea this October.
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
The administrator has disabled public write access.
|
|
|
|
|
Forums 
