Descend into Horror, Rise as a Filmmaker
by Diem ~ August 26th, 2008Diem, a screenwriter/director of SineBuano, discusses on how writing and filming horror films can open doors for independent filmmakers.
Filipino Cinema: Old Wordwork and Stale Stories
by SineBuano ~ August 20th, 2008
In mainstream Filipino cinema, (as well as mainstream Filipino television), things have not changed much in the last couple of decades.
One might even propose that nothing has changed much in the last forty years.
Sound Matters
by SineBuano ~ August 18th, 2008
Martin Scorsese once said that, “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
That could be taken in the context that Cinema is made of two parts: Sight and Sound. Both are important and Cinema cannot be true Cinema if either parts or both are lacking.
SineBuano recommends “Astig”
by CardinalB ~ August 11th, 2008“Astig” - Spin off from the independent film “Confessional”
I bumped into this short film in You tube; because the success and critical acclaim of filmmaker Jerrold Tarog for his work in The Confessional, (which I haven’t seen yet).
ASTIG is a spin-off, so they say, of one of the characters of the Confessional movie.
It’s amazing to see how Cebuano actor Jai Rabin metamorphoses into the story’s swaggering tourist and taxi passenger.
It’s very predictable but that’s the point; the story is a mere look into ethnocentrism… and I’m assuming that’s also one of the themes in “Confessional.”