INDIE FILM: Pagdadalaga nI Maximo Oliveros woot!

[Flame alchemist]

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ay, forgot to update,

Gi pasalida ron ang APNMO sa Gaisano Country Mall,

also, Si JR Valentin (kadtong police sa Movie) will be appearing at Extra Challenge Feb 6., tutok na mga ka puso!

[DHated]

Si valentin?? Kadtong polpol na comp-e sauna?

[pnoize]

DHated: Whatever you have against JR Valentin this is definitely not the venue to air them.

[Flame alchemist]

Si valentin?? Kadtong polpol na comp-e sauna?

on my years on the study of psychologylity, basing from your posts of hateness and nonsense,

I am assuming you must be a 2nd string,mediocre loser in real life.

[koto]

Si valentin?? Kadtong polpol na comp-e sauna?

on my years on the study of psychologylity, basing from your posts of hateness and nonsense,

I am assuming you must be a 2nd string,mediocre loser in real life.

"mediocre" :average: adequate or acceptable, but not very good
?....... hahaaa how many hours did u research dis in ur dicktionary hahaa

im planning to watch it again in Gaisano w/ my Sony HDR-FX1 and i need some assistance to help me setup dis equipment, ill provide the transpo anybody..

[vanceloma]

@koto
w-wha? you're bringing a cemra to watch a movie and have setup? what are you getting into...?

or could it be?!! nooo....

[north_star]

yeah, showing bitaw ang movie sa country mall pero kita nko ani two times sa ayala, last year. i have to say it's one of the best movies in 2005.

[Flame alchemist]

Congratulation again to APNMO for winning at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2006
for Best Asian Feature

IFFR website
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/splash.html

List of Winners
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com...stinction.aspx

next up, BERLINALE!!!

[diem]

APNMO has gone to the Sundance.. here's the development of that venture...

MAXIMO OLIVEROS FAILS TO CHARM SUNDANCE

by Isah V. Red
From the Manila Standard
2/6/2006

Quinceañera of Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer about disaffected teeners coming of age in a gentrifying community in Echo Park district of Los Angeles won the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition.

No, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, as Aureus Solito’s film was known at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, wasn’t in the same league as Quinceañera, which also won the World Cinema Audience Award. The movie shot in digital video was in the same group as the French film 13 Tzameti by Gela Babliani about a guy who finds himself at the brink of human decency, a place whose only inhabitants are the underbelly of society, when he by mistake follows instructions intended for someone else.

13 Tzameti easily won the hearts and minds of the jury and chose it to win the World Cinema Jury Prize in the dramatic competition. The World Cinema Audience Award went to Toa Fraser’s No. 2 from New Zealand about Nanna Maria and her family who have forgotten how to party. That’s about to change with Nanna’s resolve to bring the family come to life with the passion and heat of the South Pacific.

Rabid admirers of Solito’s movie about a pre-pubescent gay who falls in love with a hunky policeman might think I am just being nasty in writing this note. No, I’m not. I’m stating a fact.

The movie, which got glowing reviews from local movie reviewers who know little of film history—they can’t even distinguish film from video—also got less than enthusiastic reviews.

Dennis Harvey, writing for Variety, the film business trade magazine, found Solito’s first narrative feature worthy to be screened in other festivals, gay fests particularly. But, he added that “it will nonetheless prove a difficult sell offshore, where the 12-year-old protag’s cross-dressing precocity and his relationship with a hunky policeman may cause more discomfort than amusement.”

Solito and his disciples should not worry, though, as the movie, no matter how menial it appeared to the crowd at Sundance, had already been declared by the self-proclaimed gurus of local cinema as the best picture of 2005. I can almost see the eyebrows of critic Gino Dormiendo and screenwriter at large Iskho F. Lopez rising to the top of Mt. Everest in protest.

[pinkclair]

wa ko kakita ani when it hit the theaters...so sayang!