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Pauwi Na
''Pedicab'' ( fil, Pauwi Na) is a 2016 Philippine social realist drama film directed by Paolo Villaluna and produced by Ellen Ramos. The tandem of Villaluna-Ramos also co-wrote and co-edited the film. It was selected in the main competition of the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival where it won the Golden Goblet for Best in Feature Film. Its win makes Pedicab (Pauwi Na) only the 4th full-feature film in the history of Philippine cinema to ever win the top prize in an A-list international film festival. It has an ensemble cast led by Philippine icons Bembol Roco and Cherry Pie Picache. Plot Inspired by a news article featured in the '' Philippine Daily Inquirer'' (“Family pedals way back home to Leyte,” Sept. 7, 2003), ''Pauwi Na'' (PEDICAB) follows Mang Pepe and his family as they pedal on pedicabs (cycle rickshaws) the thousands of miles from Manila to the farmlands. The ailing Mang Pepe ( Bembol Roco), his wife, Remedios ( Cherry Pie Picache), their daughter Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Villaluna
Paolo Villaluna is a Filipino film, television and TV commercial director. Career Villaluna's short films have been screened in film festivals including Yamagata, Clermont-Ferrand, and Rotterdam. ''ILUSYON (Illusion)'' was awarded with CJ Selections at the 2006 Busan International Film Festival. In 2007, his second film ''SELDA (The Inmate)'' was the first Filipino film to be accepted in the main competition of both the Montreal World Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Sid Lucero and Emilio Garcia tied as Best Actors in Thessaloniki for the film. The “Love Trilogy” ended with 2009's ''WALANG HANGGANG PAALAM (Endless Farewell)'' which won the Best World Showcase award in Soho International Film Festival in New York in 2010. In 2009, he made his TV directorial debut with '' STORYLINE'' for the ABS-CBN New Channel. His television work has garnered back-to-back Gawad Tanglaw awards, a Catholic Mass Media award and New York Film Festival medals. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai International Film Festival
The Shanghai International Film Festival (, French: ''Festival international du film de Shanghai''), abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia. "China's biggest film festival" according to the Hollywood Reporter. Next to Tokyo International Film Festival, the SIFF is considered by many to be the second biggest film festival in Asia. The first festival was held from October 7 to 14, 1993. In 2003 there was no festival due to the SARS outbreak. Since its beginning in 1993, Shanghai International Film Festival has grown to become an A-category international film festival. Every June, the 10-day film festival arrives as scheduled, and it has become an important sight in Shanghai's cultural life. The Shanghai Film Festival has screened more than 400 Chinese and foreign films. SIFF organized by Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & TV and Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group. It awards several "Golden Goblet" Awards () for best film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Qing
Xu Qing (; born 22 January 1969), known also as Summer Qing, is a Chinese actress. She was accepted into the acting class of Beijing Film Academy in 1988 and graduated in 1992. Career Xu made her debut in the 1990 film '' Life on a String'', directed by Chen Kaige. In 1992, she was nominated for the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress with her performance in the film ''Ripples Across Stagnant Water''. The same year, she starred in the television series ''At the Foot of The Imperial City'' and gained recognition in China. In 2001, she renewed her career after portraying Ren Yingying in the television series ''Laughing in the Wind'' (2001). In 2003, Xu won the Audience's Choice for Actress award at the China TV Golden Eagle Award for her performance in spy drama ''The Chinese Woman at the Gunpoint of Gestapo''. In 2009, Xu portrayed Soong Ching-ling in the Chinese historical film ''The Founding of a Republic'', which won her Best Supporting Actress awards at the Macau Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabu (director)
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor and film director. Career Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in ''Sorobanzuku''. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 ''World Apartment Horror'', a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of '' Akira'' fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 ''Dangan Runner'', a film that set his early style of "quirky action-comedies propelled by characters who hurtle headlong though squirming narratives steered more by the forces of incidence and coincidence than the actions of the protagonists themselves." Shin'ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu's first five films. '' Blessing Bell'', starring Susumu Terajima (who has played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu's films), was a turn away from his kinetic, parodic, and blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milcho Manchevski
Milcho Manchevski ( mk, Милчо Манчевски, )"Milcho Manchevski: Full Biography" ''maccinema.com''. Kinoteka na Makedonija. Retrieved April 29, 2017. is a New York-based Macedonian film director, photographer and artist. Work Milcho Manchevski's acclaimed '' Before the Rain'' is considered "one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema" (Annette Insdorf) and "one of the most important films of the decade" (Ann Kibbey). '' |
Li Qiang (screenwriter)
Li Qiang (; born 1968) is a Chinese screenwriter. Filmography External links * Living people Screenwriters from Henan 1968 births Writers from Anyang People's Republic of China writers {{screen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Baoping
Cao Baoping () is a Chinese film director. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's "midrange" cinema industry. Some industry watchers, like ''Variety'', have situated directors like Cao between the older fifth generation directors, such as Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou, who have achieved major international and box-office success, and the more "underground" sixth generation directors, like Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai. Directorial career Cao Baoping graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989, and spent most of the 1990s teaching screenwriting at his alma mater. Cao would go on to expand into directing television and television films, co-directing the television film ''Absolute Emotion'' in 2001. His solo debut as director was 2006's '' Trouble Makers'', a satirical black comedy about a village taking revenge on a gang of hoodlums. Due to its rough content, ''Trouble Makers'' faced a host of problems from censors and spent six years in gestation before finally bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Alix Jr
Adolfo may refer to: * Adolfo, São Paulo, a Brazilian municipality * Adolfo (designer), Cuban-born American fashion designer * Adolfo or Adolf Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ..., a given name See also * {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' (''PDI''), or simply the ''Inquirer'', is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines. Founded in 1985, it is often regarded as the Philippines' newspaper of record. The newspaper is the most awarded broadsheet in the Philippines and the multimedia group, called The Inquirer Group, reaches 54 million people across several platforms. History The ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' was founded on December 9, 1985, by publisher Eugenia Apóstol, columnist Max Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte during the last days of the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, becoming one of the first private newspapers to be established under the Marcos regime. The ''Inquirer'' succeeded the weekly ''Philippine Inquirer'', created in 1985 by Apostol to cover the trial of 25 soldiers accused of complicity in the assassination of opposition leader Ninoy Aquino at Manila International Airport on August 21, 1983. Apostol also published the '' Mr. & Ms. Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bembol Roco
Rafael Aranda Roco, Jr. (born November 20, 1953), popularly known as Bembol Roco, is a Filipino actor whose work ranges from films to television. He is famous for his critically acclaimed role as Julio Madiaga in '' Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag'' ("Manila in the Claws of Light"). Though he acts in his country's films, he also had an important role in the 1982 Australian-U.S. film '' The Year of Living Dangerously''. He also portrayed villain roles in Philippine action movies due to his signature bald head as well as various supporting roles. Bem starred in ''Sine Novela: Tinik sa Dibdib''. He has twin sons named Felix and Dominic. Roco appeared in a minor role in 2010's '' Dagim'', a Cinema One Original film directed by Joaquin Pedro Valdes, about the strange goings-on in a remote mountain province. He is well known to be most collaborative works with the late Lino Brocka, where he is a part of a group of actors called "Brocka babies", and directors such as Ishmael Bern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always utilizes a form of descriptive or critical realism.James G. Todd Jr, ''Social realism'' in: Grove Art Online The term is sometimes more narrowly used for an art movement that flourished between the two World Wars as a reaction to the hardships and problems suffered by common people after the Great Crash. In order to make their art more accessible to a wider audience, artists turned to realist portrayals of anonymous workers as well as celebrities as heroic symbols of strength in the face of adversity. The goal of the artists in doing so was political as they wished to expose the deteriorating conditions of the poor and working clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
