OSCAR 2010's Best Documentary Feature Screens This Sunday At Cinemanila

In the 1960's, Richard O'Barry was the world’s leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, O'Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, that all came to a tragic end.The Cove ells the amazing true story of how Psihoyos, O'Barry and an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate a hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The mysteries they uncovered were only the tip of the iceberg.

This Sunday At Cinemanila: Highlights

CINEMANILA 2010 GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER EASTERN PLAYS (Directed by Kamen Kalev. Bulgaria, Sweden / 2009 / 89 mins.)

MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! (Directed by Mark Hartley. Australia / 2010 / 84 mins.)

PHILIPPINE PREMIERE OF INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED FILM A PROPHET (Directed by Jacquies Audiard. France, Italy / 2009 / 150 mins. Grand Prix , 61st Cannes Film Festival 2009)

CLOSING FILM: AMIGO (Directed by John Sayles. USA / 2010 / 128 mins.)

12th Cinemanila International Film Festival 2010 Winners

International Competition

Best Actor: Ensemble Cast of Sketches of Kaitan City (Japan)
Best Actress: Yoon Yeo-jeong in The Housemaid (South Korea)
Best Director: Im Sang-soo for The Housemaid
Grand Jury Prize: Eastern Plays by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria, Sweden)
Lino Brocka Grand Prize: Sketches of Kaitan City by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan)

Park Chan-Woon's Thirst Screens Today at Cinemanila

December 4, Saturday | Cinema A (35 mm)

10:05 PM Thirst | Park Chan Wook (South Korea, 2009)

With the hope of saving even one life, he volunteers to participate in a risky experiment in Africa and ends up contracting the deadly Eve virus. With the transfusion of a mysterious blood, Sang-hyun then comes back to life as a vampire.

Second Screening of Im-Sang Soo's The Housemaid Today at the 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival 2010

December 4, Saturday | Cinema A (35 mm)

6:00 PM The Housemaid | Im Sang-soo (South Korea, 2010)

In this erotic thriller, the housemaid of an upper-class family becomes entangled in a dangerous tryst.

The 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival Official Line-up

Opening Film
Pinoy Sunday | Wi Ding Ho (Taiwan / Philippines, 2010)

Closing film
Amigo | John Sayles (USA, 2010)

Cinemanila Celebrates 10 Years of Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema

The global spotlight shines on ten young local filmmakers as Cinemanila International Film Festival 2010 celebrates ten years of the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema.

Comedy Icon Dolphy To Receive Cinemanila's Lifetime Achievement Award

Fresh from being decorated with the Grand Collar of the Order of the Golden Heart by no less than President Benigno Aquino III, Rodolfo Vera-Quizon, 83, or most popularly known as Dolphy the King of Philippine comedy, will receive yet another prestigious honor to recognize his invaluable contribution to the country’s entertainment industry.

NETPAC Award-Winning Films To Be Screened At The Cinemanila International Film Festival 2010

To highlight the unparalleled importance of Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) in the development of international cinema, the 2010 Cinemanila International Film Festival has included in its line-up of events the screening of past winners of the NETPAC Award.

Cinemanila Presents: Mabuhay, Mr. Kim! Focus On Korean Cinema

The worldwide phenomenon that is Korean cinema wouldn’t be possible without a man who with the vision and determination to make it happen – Kim Dong Ho, the founding director of Asia’s biggest film festival and one of the world’s most prestigious, the Pusan International Film Festival.

Pinoy Sunday is 12th Cinemanila Opening Film

Malaysian born filmmaker living in Taipei makes a film about Pinoys living in Taiwan. Directed by Cannes winner Wi Ding Ho. Starring Bayani Agbayani, Epi Quizon, Alessandra de Rossi, Meryll Soriano.

Pinoy Sunday, winner of the Industry Award for Narrative Feature at the 2010 Taipei International Film Festival and directed by Cannes winner Wi Ding Ho, will be the opening film of the 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival, which will run from December 1 to 5, 2010 in Quezon City, Philippines.

Cinemanila Hosts The Philippine Premiere Of 'Return To Manila: Filipino Cinema'

The 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival will feature French documentarian and film critic Hubert Niogret’s ‘RETURN TO MANILA: Filipino Cinema’ to the Filipino audience on December 2, 2010, 8:00 p.m at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, 209 Nicanor Garcia Avenue, Makati City.

Film About Pinoy OFWs in Taiwan Earns Malaysian Filmmaker Best New Director Award

Wi Ding Ho, director of Pinoy Sunday, has just won the Best New Director Award at the The Golden Horse Film Festival Awards Ceremony last November 20 In Taipei. The Golden Horse Film Festival is the most prestigious and longest-running film festival of Chinese language films in the world. The film is considered the Asia's equivalent of the Oscar Awards - film luminaries like John Woo, Ang Lee, Maggie Cheung, Wong Kar Wai, and others have graced the glitzy film festival in the past.

John Sayle's AMIGO is Cinemanila's Closing Film

The internationally celebrated opus of renowned filmmaker John Sayles, ‘Amigo’ (2010) has been chosen as the closing feature presentation of the 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival on December 5, 2010. The film, which was shot entirely in the Philippines and has already traveled in a number of international film festivals, tells the story of a group of Philippine villagers dealing with the US invasion in 1900 while still recovering from the successful rebellion against Spain.