23rd Manila Spanish Film Festival

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00:00Visit Sober Marks, the 21st edition of Pelikula Pelikula, a film festival by Instituto Cervantes de Manila.

00:07Wag palampasin na bakakatong ito na makapanood ng mga dekalidad na pelikula.

00:11Joining us today, we welcome the director of Instituto Cervantes de Manila, Mr. Francisco Lopez Tapia.

00:18Good morning and welcome, Sir Wise and Shine Pilipinas.

00:22Hello, good morning. How are you?

00:24We're good. This is Prof Feet together with Meiji. How are you?

00:29Fine, thank you. Fine.

00:30Hi, good morning, Francisco.

00:31Delighted to be with you.

00:33Good morning. How are you?

00:34Yes. All right. Can you tell us more about this year's festival, Pelikula Pelikula?

00:41Okay. Pelikula Pelikula is a film festival organized, as you said, by Instituto Cervantes

00:45with the support of the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines and the Agency of Spanish Cooperation.

00:50The festival aims to be a showcase of cinema in Spanish, in Southeast Asia, and especially here in the Philippines.

00:59And this year we are celebrating our 23rd edition.

01:02The 23rd edition is having place in Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong.

01:07And we started last Saturday, the 5th of October, and we will be on until next Sunday, the 13th.

01:16We offer three screenings every day, one at 2.30, the other one at 5, and the last one at 7.30 in the evening.

01:22And it's totally free for the Filipino audience.

01:26This year we are showing around 25 productions, yes, 25, from different countries, from Spain, Argentina, Panama, Chile, Brazil, and the Philippines.

01:38We are showing and screening long and short films, recordings of operas and ballets from our prestigious Teatro Real, and also documentaries.

01:48We try to make a selection that really reflects our values and ideals.

01:54So that's why the stories are full of things like resilience, empathy, inclusion, diversity, and cultural richness.

02:02Qualities that we think must be part of our institutional DNA and also represent the very essence of the Spanish cultural diplomacy.

02:11This year we are very happy, I can tell you, with the amount of spectators that we are having.

02:15We are having around 800 spectators every day, so we really think it's a good way to promote and establish dialogue between our culture, the Spanish and the Filipino cultures.

02:26Which is really good because we're after all the values that people should have.

02:31And this film should really help them to become one.

02:34Well, we also heard that two works of Filipino filmmakers are part of this film festival.

02:39So, wow, can you tell us more about this film?

02:42We're actually looking forward since you also mentioned this is going to be free, right?

02:46Go ahead.

02:48Yeah, they are free, as I said.

02:50And next Sunday, Sunday the 13th, we are, as you said, screening two short films from Filipino directors, Kila Romero and Sonny Solveig.

03:01The one from Kila Romero is Transient.

03:03It's a kind of love story through a phone call between a filmmaker and a frustrated poet.

03:11And the second one from Sonny Solveig is called My Amazing Mama, Prime Time Mother.

03:19And it's about a mother who wants to win a very interesting show called My Amazing Mama.

03:28And, you know, it talks about the difficult task of being a good mother.

03:33And all the archetypes that are joined to the idea of being a good mother in a patriarchal society.

03:41So, we are very happy to include these two short films.

03:44Because we also have a lot of, you know, Spanish speakers, natives, which are living here in the Philippines from Spain and from Latin American countries.

03:53So, it's a way also to show them all the productions that have been made here in the Philippines.

04:00And it's a way, as I told you, to establish dialogues between our cultures.

04:05So, we think it's important to have Filipino productions also.

04:08Yes, and not to mention that Philippines and Spain share the tradition, also history, right?

04:15So, you've mentioned some of the highlights of this year's films.

04:19Are there any films that you particularly like or excited about?

04:26Well, next Saturday at 2.30, we are screening Robot Dreams, which is an animation film.

04:32It was about to win last Oscar's Best Animation Film.

04:37It's a really nice one for the whole family.

04:39So, you are more than welcome next Saturday, as I told you, at 2.30.

04:43It's a story about friendship, about love, about second opportunities in life.

04:48And also about loneliness in big cities.

04:51That one would be a good choice.

04:53Then, we have another one on Sunday.

04:59We have The Shorts, also at 2.30.

05:02You are more than welcome also.

05:04And tonight, at 7.30, we have Juan, which is an Argentinian film.

05:10Also very awarded and very, very advisable.

05:14You know what? Just a trivia, Meiji.

05:16In the late 1800s, most of the films that were broadcasted here in the Philippines

05:23are actually Spanish-language kinds of films, particularly of Francisco Naquera, if I'm not mistaken.

05:30And the good thing that we have until this moment is that we still have these kinds of films that we are able to watch.

05:37But aside from the films that, of course, our Filipino people will be able to watch,

05:44can you tell us about any special events or workshops that will be held during the festival?

05:52We try that Pelicula is not only a place where we show films.

05:56We also try to organize, as you said, workshops around the film world.

06:01Last Saturday, we had a workshop with kids.

06:06We had a screenwriter coming from one of the screenwriters of one of the films that we showed,

06:11came to the Philippines, and he was doing some kind of short films with a group of kids, Filipino kids,

06:19from 6 to 14.

06:22So they were working on that.

06:24And we've been also organizing some workshops in universities.

06:28So this screenwriter has been doing also cinema with cinema students.

06:34And yes, we also had the visit of a director of one of the documentaries that we are showing.

06:41And he was having a meeting with the audience and speaking about what's the process of making a documentary about,

06:51and also about their own work.

06:54And there was also a space to make questions to the producers and to the directors and to talk with the audience.

07:03So that's something that we want to promote also in future editions.

07:07And we're going to be working about creating more activities around the film.

07:12So that's a challenge for next year's edition.

07:15Yes, alright.

07:16Please invite everyone to support and watch this year's Manila Spanish Film Festival, Pelicula Pelicula.

07:25Invite everyone, Francisco.

07:28Yes, yes, yes.

07:30We will definitely wait for you in there, Mandaluyan Plaza.

07:35And yeah, it will be like Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

07:38And yes, please come join us and let's share culture.

07:43Alright, thank you so much for your time, director Francisco Lopez Tabia.

07:48Okay.

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