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Apocalypse Child
''Apocalypse Child'' is a 2015 Philippine independent film directed and co-written by Mario Cornejo, set in the Philippine coastal town of Baler and featuring aspects of local surf culture. It stars Sid Lucero, Annicka Dolonius, Gwen Zamora, RK Bagatsing, Ana Abad Santos, and Archie Alemania, and was co-written by Mario Cornejo and Monster Jimenez. Production Development ''Apocalypse Child'' initially had a different title and a different story, still written by Mario Cornejo and Monster Jimenez. The film's original plot revolved around four middle-aged women who went on to learn about surfing because they fell in love with a young surf instructor. But they changed the plot as soon as they went to Baler, Aurora to do further research and learn more about the history of surfing in the Philippines. Surf culture in the country, according to an a legend, began because of a Hollywood film. '' Apocalypse Now'' shot some of its scenes in Baler in the 1970s and allegedly, the crew left ...
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Monster Jimenez
Maria Coreen T. Jimenez, better known by her screen name, Monster Jimenez, is a Philippine screenwriter, director, producer and editor best known for her work on ''Big Time'' (2005), '' Kano: An American and His Harem'' (2010), '' Apocalypse Child'' (2015), ''Respeto'' (2017), and the Sundance winner Leonor Will Never Die. Jimenez' directorial debut, 2010's ''Kano: An American and His Harem'', won the best Documentary Awards at the 2010 Cinemalaya International Film Festival and the 2011 Gawad Urian Awards, and the Award for Best First Appearance at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic .... Jimenez also serves as the Managing Partner at the independent film production company Arkeofilms, and as the presiding chairpe ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ...
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Philippine New Wave
Philippine New Wave (known as ''Filipino New Wave'' or ''Contemporary Philippine Cinema'') is a filmmaking genre that has been popularly associated with the resurgence of independent, digital and experimental films in the Philippines began in the 21st century, merged into a recent filmmaking period known as the Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema. Origins of the movement Following the first golden age, in the 1950s to 1960s, and the second, from the 1970s to the early 1980s, the dawn of this era saw a dramatic decline of the mainstream film industry in the Philippines in mid-1980s to 1990s.
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Philippine Independent Films
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands t ...
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Films By Monster Jimenez
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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