Luntiang Tabing: Environmental Film Festival

Wednesday, March 4

Cine Adarna
UP Film Center, UP Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

Luntiang Tabing: Environmental Film Festival

Project Bakawan Collaborative Art Festival Presentation with University of the Philippines Film Institute and the UP College of Mass Communication

This is free and open to the general public. We welcome anyone interested in attending.

See you there!

This will be curated by Roland Tolentino

It will be held on March 4-6, 2015 at Cine Adarna, UPFI Film Center, UP Diliman.

The films are focused on environmental concerns.

Schedule of screenings

March 4 Wednesday

Opening Features
Gikan sa Ngitngit nga Kinailadman (From the Dark Depths – Kiri Dalena) – 5 p.m.
A Manobo community with lumad and peasant land rights defenders resisting mining, palm oil plantations and other resource-extractive industries in the Northern Mindanao region endures militarization.

Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage (Yoshinori Niwa) – 7 p.m.
New video art documents a social experiment that relates to the issue of garbage and international relations for the cause of environmental awareness.

March 5 Thursday

International Environmental Shorts – 2:30 p.m.

Project Fukushima (Hikaru Fujii) – 5 p.m.
After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a network for new social forms with various artistic activities has been initiated.

Nick and Chai (Wena Sanchez, Cha Escala) – 7 p.m.
Presented by Quezon City Film Development Commission. A couple from the Philippine province of Leyte copes after losing all their four children and other kin to the strongest typhoon ever recorded in history.

March 6 Friday

Cross Currents: Journey to Asian Environments (Nick Deocampo) – 5 p.m.
Presented by Center for New Cinema. In a survey of five Asian ecological sites, local inhabitants, often without scientific help, are shown to have developed indigenous ways of taking care of their environments.

Mga Anak ng Unos (Lav Diaz) – 7 p.m.
Presented by Sine Olivia Pilipinas. In the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, a state of post-apocalyptic chaos grips the country.

About the Films:

GIKAN SA NGITNGIT NGA KINAILADMAN
An entire Manobo community flees from their sub-village in San Fernando, Bukidnon to escape being killed by a wave of bombings inflicted by the 8th Infantry Batallion’s counter-insurgency operations. They endure fear and hunger for seven days while hiding in the forests of the Pantaron mountain rage.

SELLING THE RIGHT TO NAME A PILE OF GARBAGE
An artistic project conceived by Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa, in which he seeks to identify and negotiate with existing landfills to re/name the new land masses created by the waste of Metro Manila.

PROJECT FUKUSHIMA – The film focuses on the artistic activities undertaken by the survivors of the Tohaku earthquake, the tsunami and the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daichii power plant in March 2011.

NICK AND CHAI is an observational documentary of a couple from Leyte (Philippines) who are trying to recover after they lost all their four children to Super Typhoon Haiyan/ Yolanda.

NUNAL SA TUBIG (Ishmael Bernal) is a story of a community living on an island where fishing is the main source of livelihood and how they are affected by progress.

CROSS CURRENTS: JOURNEY TO ASIAN ENVIRONMENTS focuses on five communities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand and their localized responses to ecological crisis and efforts to achieve ecological balance.

MGA ANAK NG UNOS is a two-hour-and-23-minute documentary following the everyday lives of some Visayan kids in the aftermath of one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded in the history of meteorology, and it is rumored to be part one in an ongoing series of fourteen films.