The 5th Bacollywood Visayan Film Festival Screenings Schedule

Bacollywood Film & Acting Summer Workshops

BACOLLYWOOD COMING SOON

Bacollywood: The Visayan Film Festival 5th Edition will be on May 9-11, 2012 in Bacolod City. The festival will have screenings done in the outdoors and selected art spaces. Films will come from all over the Visayan Islands and films from other countries.

Bacollywood Workshops Screenings & Presentations Schedule

May 4

2:00 PM, Gallery Orange - B

Screening of Cinematography Class Outputs

Cinematography Instructor Anne Monzon

2:00 PM, Gallery Orange - A

Basic Curatorial Workshops: Exhibit Proposals Presentation

Basic Curatorial Class visits Charlie Co's studio

6:00 PM, The Negros Museum

Work-In-Progress Class' "ONCE UPON A TIME, SA ISA KA BANWA" &

Make-up Class' KARA 

May 5

9:00 AM, Gallery Orange

Screening of Film Production Class Outputs

At the set of the Film Production Class Mock Shoot

3:00 PM, Negros Museum

Bacollywood Workshops Graduation

BACOLLYWOOD WORKSHOPS

This summer, Produksyon Tramontina Inc. & The National Commission for Culture and the Arts are bringing Bacollywood Workshops, an intensive workshop in film & acting from April 16 to May 5, 2012.

Formerly known as Right Angle + Negros Summer Workshops, the workshops has brought together a team of professionals to teach, in the belief that by dedicating their time and effort, the artistic and cultural traditions remain vibrant and alive in the Region, and that the seeds of inspiration, discipline and craft be implemented unto the future artists of our country.

This year, BACOLLYWOOD WORKSHOPS offers FILM & ACTING courses taught by the most brilliant set of professionals in the industry:

BASIC ACTING

Instructors: Jubal Gallaga & Jack Triño

Students enrolled in this class are exposed to a full range of techniques designed to impart the basic principles of acting which is ideal for those who have had no previous acting experience.

BASIC THEATRE IMPROVISATIONS

Instructors: Gabby Fernandez, John Arceo & Eero Martinez

Based on the methods developed by Viola Spolin & Paul Sills, this course takes the workshoppers one step further in the craft of acting through group improvisations, scene studies and improvisation-based movements and has produced a host of stand-up comics and dramatic talents.

ADVANCE ACTING – BEING

Instructor: Gabby Fernandez

Based on Eric Morris' school of acting and definitely only for those who are serious students of the craft - psychological and emotional commitment is required from the workshopper.

MAKE - UP FOR FILM

Instructor: Carlos Durana

Thoroughly hands-on, the course covers the whole range of materials and technique from basic make-up to advanced hair and face styling. With special lessons in special-effect and prosthetics makeup for film.

FILM APPRECIATION

Instructor: Peque Gallaga

Film Appreciation aims to train its students in a holistic approach to viewing film. The course aims to give the students the techniques to breaking down a film’s structure and quantifying the elements that make a film good or bad. The course provides the language used in being able to justify whether a film works or doesn’t work. The course serves to ground the student in the idea that a work of art must be judged by the qualities that make it art and not just on subjective opinions; whether someone likes it or not. It goes further by giving them the tools to say why they liked it or why they didn’t.

FILM PRODUCTION

Instructor: Manny Montelibano

Provides an overview of all aspects of video and film production from pre-production all the way to editing. Under professional guidance, workshoppers undergo conceptualization, production management techniques and post-production.

TEENAGE FILM PRODUCTION

Instructor: Manny Montelibano

Provides an overview of all aspects of video and film production from pre-production all the way to editing. Under professional guidance, workshoppers undergo conceptualization, production management techniques and post-production. This course is offered to students ages 12-16.

EDITING FOR INDEPENDENT FILMS

Instructor: Lawrence Fajardo

Basic techniques on the creative post production process designed for independent filmmakers utilizing available softwares.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Instructor: Anne Monzon

Principles and techniques in manipulating the camera in order to tell a story for the screen. This course obliges the workshopper to successfully complete a short video project.

Pre-requisite: Basic knowledge in photography/Film Production

SOUND DESIGN

Instructor: Paolo Lindaya

The purpose of this course is to investigate and understand the role of sound in the film making process. It provides theory and techniques of sound editing in film, video & live performance. The job & craft of the sound designer will be defined & explained with particular focus on how sound impacts & is used to enhance & add to the full effect.

BASIC CURATORIAL WORKSHOP

Instructor: Lisa Chikiamco

This workshop focuses on conceptualizing exhibitions through different methods. Participants will take part in creative exercises where they must come up with the concept of their shows and their selection of artists/artworks appropriate to the situation. Focus is driven by research and writing while feedback and discussion with the fellow participants help sharpen the critical eye. Participants will learn of different curatorial models and, asides from presenting mini-curatorial proposals, participants will also need to write and present one major curatorial proposal for the workshop for evaluation.

Enrollment for limited slots is on-going from March 16 to April 16, 2012 at Gallery Orange, Lopues Mandalagan Annex Building, Bacolod City. Please contact Arielle Uychiat at 0916-2173010 for inquiries.

Enrollment fees:

P 2,500 - Students

P 3,000 - Non-students

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Star-studded Cinema Rehiyon festival in Bacolod

By: Lester G. Babiera
Philippine Daily Inquirer

11:58 pm | Sunday, February 26th, 2012

STAFF and delegates of Cinema Rehiyon 2012

For its fourth year, Cinema Rehiyon, the non-competition film festival organized by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) during the Philippine Arts Festival (also known as the National Arts Month every February), included video installations along with the regular fare of full-length films and short films by regional filmmakers.

Since Bacolod City was the host, the festival was called “Bacollywood.” A total of 68 films were shown.

DIRECTOR Peque Gallaga with filmmakers from Bacolod

Among video installations shown were those by Martha Atienza, Kiri Dalena and Kaloy Olavides.

An art exhibit of seven video installations titled “Killing Time” was showcased at the Negros Museum.

Atienza’s “Gilubong ang Akong Pusod sa Dagat” was shown at Gallery Orange of artist Charlie Co.

The installation was viewed through a three-channel video projection that took its audience above and below sea level.

The movie tackles the relationship between Filipinos and the sea. The documentary includes Filipino seamen working in international ships and ports.

MIKE Rapatan, head of NCCA cinema committee

“Cinema Rehiyon started with film and has now embraced video art,” said Bacollywood Cinema Rehiyon festival director Manny Montelibano. “It started in the movie house and is now in alternative public venues in the barangays through Cine de Barrio.”

This year, the venue for viewing some of the featured films were not only confined to the movie house (Robinsons Bacolod) but also included public areas such as art galleries and barangays.

Cine de Barrio, for example, transformed several barangay centers in Bacolod as film-screening venues.

VIDEO installation of “Gilubong ang Akong Pusod sa Dagat,” by Martha Atienza

Forums

Veteran directors Celso Ad Castillo and Peque Gallaga were the featured speakers in the special program on film masters.

Gallaga, who worked on mainstream and independent films, said independent films give filmmakers full artistic control.

“On indie films, you tell your own story without anybody taking control of what will it look like,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Castillo reminded filmmakers they should know their viewers and said that a film is worthless if an audience does not see it.

SAN FRANCISCO Film Fest programmer looking at Maria Tanaguchi’s “Infinity Island”

“Films should be watched by the people. They are not made to be kept and hidden, they are meant to be shown,” he said.

Actors John Arceo, Rez Cortez, Cherrie Gil, Mark Gil, Ronnie Lazaro, Joel Torre and Epi Quizon also graced the festival and took part in a forum about actors in cinema.

Torre said most actors find irresponsible directors their pet peeves.

“We, as professional actors, do our homework (before going to a scene). We except that the directors also come prepared,” he said.

Quizon advised the directors who are new in their craft not to be intimidated with veteran actors.

“[Directors] must always take control especially when directing these kind of actors,” he said. “If you’ll not step up and give in to your intimidation, the actors will surely take control of your film.”

FESTIVAL director Manny Montelibano

Oldest Filipino movie

In Bacolod’s Art District, the silent film “Brides of Sulu” was shown. It was accompanied by a live audio performance by Bacolod musicians.

The 1934 movie was recently discovered and it tells the exotic story of forbidden love, similar to Flaherty and Murnau’s South Sea silent movie, “Tabu.”

According to Teddy Co, Cinema Rehiyon’s curator for Luzon, “Brides of Sulu” “may probably be the oldest existing Filipino film.”

RONNIE Lazaro

MARK Gil

EPI Quizon

CHERRIE Gil

Rez Cortez

JOEL Torre