The UP Film Institute, with the Cine Veritas Group*, invites you to be a part of the 2008 Cine Veritas Human Rights Festival on December 9-12, 2008 at the UPFI Cine Adarna, Videotheque and Ishmael Bernal Gallery. This four-day festival aims to promote human rights awareness through various multi-media/-format activities organized by the participating groups. The conduct of this year’s event goes beyond its film festival program. It includes cultural presentations and educational discussions in an effort to broaden viewer’s understanding of human rights and update them with the current state of it in our country. Entrance to all activities and screenings are for free, except for the musical play.
Ang Mga Lorena musical play / press conference @ the Cine Adarna
3:00 pm
Engkwentro Exhibit Opening @ the UPFI lobby
Assembly for the Veritas March
4:00 pm
Veritas March (UP academic oval)
5:30 pm
Festival Opening Ceremony FACT Sheet exhibit opening
7:30 pm
Film screening (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights films) @ the Videotheque
City for Sale (SIPAT, Philippines) Daangbakal (TUDLA Productions, Philippines) Lakbayan (Mayday Productions, Philippines) Kung Balatan ang Bawang (Jewel Maranan/TUDLA Productions, Philippines)
4:30 pm,
6:00 pm
Film Screening: Kurap @ the Videotheque
December 10, Wednesday
10:00 am
Film showing: Puting Ilaw (Aiza Peñafiel, Philippines) Migrant Worker’s Rights Forum @ the Cine Adarna
12 nn - 2:00 pm
Film screening (International People’s Struggle) @ the Cine Adarna The Cu Chi Channels (Mickey Grant; Vietnam Friendship Grant Ltd., Vietnam) Venezuela Boliviariana People and Struggle of the Fourth World War (Marcelo Andrade Arreaza/Calle Y Media, Venezuela)
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Film screenings (International People’s Struggle Batch 2) @ the Videotheque Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (Robert Greenwald/Brave New Films, Iraq)
7:00 pm
Human Rights Forum @ the Ishmael Bernal Gallery
6:30, 8pm = Film Screening: Kurap @ the Videotheque
December 11, Thursday
2pm, 7:30pm
Ang Mga Lorena musical play / press conference @ the Cine Adarna
4:30pm-6pm
film screenings (Political and Civil Rights…) @ the Videotheque
Sa Ngalan Ng Tubo (TUDLA Productions, Philippines) Mendiola (SIPAT, Philippines) PP1017: An Ode to Democracy (KODAO Productions, Philippines) Lunes ng Hapis (Nick Olanka, Philippines)
6:00 pm
film premiere, screenings (STEX productions, Philippines) and forum by STEX @ the Ishmael Bernal Gallery
Rights 1, Rights 2 Magtanggol, Makibaka
Premiere of Detinidong Pulitikal
6:30, 8pm
Film Screening: Kurap @ the Videotheque
December 12, Friday
3:00 pm
Forum @ the Ishmael Bernal Gallery
4:30-6:30pm
film screenings @ the Videotheque with the courtesy of the Embassy of Japan
Cultural Night @ the Ishmael Bernal Gallery and Perfumed Garden
* Cine Veritas Group is composed of the UP Film Institute, UP Diliman Student Council, Southern Tagalog Exposure, Sine Patriyotiko, Artists’ Arrest, Ugnayan ng Nagkakaisang Artista, TUDLA Productions, Art March, KANLUNGAN, SINAGBAYAN, KODAO Productions, Rainbow Rights Project, Mayday Productions, Commission on Human Rights, UP Sining at Lipunan, and People’s Caravan for Truth, Justice.
