No sooner had Cinemalaya ‘08 ended when Rhona slapped two projects on my lap. Time to get back to work, she said. After 7 months of non-employment, I’m back.
Just wasn’t physically prepared for Tuesday’s shoot as I was still exhausted.
So Baby Angelo won an award Sunday, for Production Design; quite the shocker since we really weren’t expecting to get anything. I think my speech was something like uh, Cristina would probably want to thank Shobe. Later on I heard that the jury were impressed with how the film looked, hence the award. Great! Also I was thrilled that Ranchero and Huling Pasada won one award apiece. I feel like our three films belonged in the same category: love it or hate it– but definitely different. I thought that was a nice gesture on the part of the jury. If my deductions are correct, some jurors sought to recognize films that lost out on the bigger awards.
Here’s to being different.
On another note, got an invitation today from the Pusan IFF for Baby Angelo. Nice to know that festival programmer Kim Ji-Seok, also a juror in Cinemalaya, was a fan.
Tags: Baby Angelo, Cinemalaya, Filmmaking, Huling Pasada, Ranchero
