Women Filmmakers' Night at Magnet Cafe Katipunan

CineKatipunan invites you to the

Women Filmmakers’ Night

On Saturday, January 12, ’07, 5:30 in the afternoon

At Magnet Café, Agcor Bldg. Katipunan Ave. Q.C.

The following films will be featured:

Kunyang by Vivian N. Limpin & Ma. Kathrina S. Loreños

Mga Bagay Na May Pakpak by Katrin Escay and Moshe Ladanga

Para Sa Kabataan by Felinda Bagas

Vivian N. Limpin is a writer, photographer, theater lights designer, filmmaker, animator, painter, komiks creator, and performance artist.

Ma. Kathrina S. Loreños is a filmmaker, animator and cinematographer. She has received recognition for her other short video works.

Kunyang is a lyrical documentary on the lives of women migrant workers in Hong Kong, as told by them. They talk of their dreams, aspirations, hopes, struggles and fears. We hear different women voices talking of the same experience of wanting and working for a better life. The film cuts across issues of migration, family, economy, womanhood, politics, society and identity. The weaving of several vignettes and images makes us realize that the face of the domestic worker in Hong Kong is that of a Filipina.

Para Sa Kabataan tells the story of a school boy from a poor province and an injured a rebel with an important assignment to carry out. An unlikely camaraderie - kindled by their common knowledge of a poem by Jose Rizal – forms between the two. They soon find out, however, that one’s task goes against the other’s, that one’s hopes is against the other’s ideologies.

And only one of them will survive in the crossfire.

Felinda Bagas studied film and audio visual communication at the University of the Philippines and is presently a scriptwriter for television. Among her recent projects are “It Might Be You” (Star Awards Best TV Series for 2004) and “Vietnam Rose”. Her first short film, “She”, was screened locally and internationally and won honorable mention at the 12^th Gawad CCP for Alternative Films in 1999. “Para Sa Kabataan” (For The Children) is her first short film in eight years.

Mga Bagay na May Pakpak is an experimental work which presents two different films at a time. The parallel construction suggests an introspection of the process of filmmaking and film-viewing, of how meanings are constructed, reconstructed and deconstructed by a simple change in structure and the manner of presenting images.

Also a graduate of film at the UPFI, Katrin Maria Escay is an award-winning filmmaker. Her works are known to be explorative and consistent with her beyond-the-brick ideas and which had gained her several recognitions from Gawad CCP and Animagination. Katrin currently pursues further studies in film in London.

Moshe Ladanga, also a graduate from the UPFI, is famous for his excellent cinematography. His cinematography has been recognized locally and internationally. His animation “Itong Mga Pakpak” was featured in the 1998 Animation Fiesta in Singapore. Moshe also continues his film education in London.