“Ambulancia” to compete anew in another Greek filmfest
Richard Legaspi's "Ambulancia" has been selected to compete at the
10th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers –
International Film Festival of Patras, which will run from September
21 to 29 at the Lithografeion Theatre at Patras City in Greece.
This was relayed by festival director Chionidis Panagiotis in his
official invitation to Legaspi, a faculty of the University of the
East (UE) College of Fine Arts and a fellow of South Korea's Asian
Film Academy, an educational program that trains aspiring Asian
filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts through workshops, one-on-one
mentoring and a short film production project to raise the bar on
film production to further the future of Asian cinema.
The 10th International Panorama is organized by the non-profit
company International Panorama of Independent Creators in cooperation
with the web magazine for culture, Cineek under the aegis of the
Patras University.
"Ambulancia" tells of a painful twist in an ambulance driver's belief
that a dying patient can be saved by running over stray animals on
the streets. It previously won the grand prize in the Viva – Pinoy
Box Office (PBO) Digitales 2 short film competition and the best
short narrative in the first Quisumbing-Escandor Film Festival for
Health.
Starring Filipino character actor Alan Paule and theater regular Nor
Domingo, the short film competed at the Naoussa International Film
Festival in Greece and was also screened at the AFA 2007 Fellows'
Night in Busan, South Korea, Young Cinema Night of the 9th Cinemanila
International Film Festival, and second CineVita Film Festival.
Meanwhile, "Ambulancia" will be shown at the fourth Cinemalaya
Philippine Independent Film Festival along with Ogi Sugatan's "Ang
Kapalaran ni Virgin Mario" (The Fate of Virgin Mario), Grace
Orbon's "Dead Letter," Anna Isabelle Matutina's "Ika-siyam na
Palapag" (Ninth Floor), Seymour Barros Sanchez's"Lababo" (Kitchen
Sink), John Wong's "Manyika" (Doll), Sanchez's "Pagbugtaw" (Waking
Up), and Matutina's "Walong Linggo" (Eight Sundays).
The special screening, dubbed as "KATORSE: Best of Indie Sine
Shorts '08," is scheduled on July 17, Thursday, 6:15 P.M. at the
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Little Theater.
Tickets to the screenings cost P50 to students and P100 otherwise.
For more information about the short films and the filmmakers, please
visit the group's website at http://katorseshorts.wordpress.com.
