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“Be passionate and love what you are doing because your work will love you back.
The passion which I put in each of the thousand movies I have produced is the same passion I felt as a movie fan when I was 10, the same passion I had for movies like ‘All Mine to Give,’ and [...]

Diem, a screenwriter/director of SineBuano, discusses on how writing and filming horror films can open doors for independent filmmakers.

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.

“The visual spectacle. I’ve tried using realism in movies before, in the cinematography. But I am most in love with the Chinese style of visual presentation. If in 20 years, after I’ve made a lot more movies, they write one sentence about me in a textbook, I’d be satisfied if they said: ‘Zhang Yimou’s style [...]

“Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring.
The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It’s made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, [...]

I believe in the power of the arts, especially cinema – that it can change or influence people’s perspectives. Cinema is such an encapsulating experience. You go inside the theatre. You are immersed in the story. You follow the characters. You are lost in those frames of images. Oftentimes, you will be carried helplessly by [...]