Chris Martinez’s 100, a story of a dying woman’s increasing to-do list before entering the pearly gates won Best Direction and Best Screenplay. 100 also won Best Actress for Mylene Dizon, Best Supporting Actress for Eugene Domingo, and the Audience Choice Award for Full Length Film.
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Martinez, former creative director at Basic Advertising, earned accolades for directing technique and depiction.
100 is a collaboration of a number of advertising personalities. Marlon Rivera, Publicis president, was co-executive producer. Straightshooters, an advertising film production outfit owned by Tony Gloria, shot the film in a record 14 days. Brian Cua of Hit Production created the musical score.
Not just with production and logistics, other advertising honchos helped in many other ways. Lawrence Tan, PhD Media Network general manager, lent his condo as location. The cast had veteran McCann Erickson executive and character actress Tessie Tomas.
Director and writer Martinez credited Rivera for his guidance and belief in the project; as well as Madonna Tarrayo, Straightshooters managing director, for “forcing” him to join the Cinemalaya competition.
The Cinemalaya 2008 jury is comprised of film critic and writer Lito B. Zulueta; film actor Cesar Montano; Ansgar Vogt, Berlin International Film Festival programmer; Kim Ji-Seok, co-founder and program director of the Pusan International Film Festival and Max Tessier, Asian and Japanese cinema expert and artistic consultant for international film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival.
On this its fourth year, the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition is gaining ground, and how. Held from July 11 to 20, the shows ran out of tickets, and the CCP was jampacked with alternative performances—performance artists and music bands—at the lobby. An all-digital film festival whose only objective then, until now, is to offer a venue for fresh, visionary and artistic cinema for Filipinos by Filipinos, Cinemalaya is Cinemagaling!
Cinemalaya 2008 winners include:
Full Length category
Best Film – Jay by Francis Xavier E. Pasion
Best Actor – Baron Geisler for Jay
Best Editing – Kate Serraon, Chuck Gutierrez and Francis Pasion for Jay
Best Supporting Actor – Yul Servo for Brutus
Best Original Musical Score – Joey Ayala for Brutus
Best Cinematography -Jay Abello for Brutus and Dan Villegas for Huling Pasada
Best Sound – Toto Sorioso-Sound Engineer and Lito Cruz-Soundman for Ranchero
Best Production Design – Cristina Honrado for Baby Angelo
Special Jury Prize – Tara Illenberger for Brutus
Short Feature category
Best Film – MiloTolentino for Andong
Best Director-Mark V. Reyes for God Only Knows
Best Screenplay – Milo Tolentino for Andong.
Special Jury Prize- Anna G. Bigornia for My Pet
Audience Choice Award also – God Only Knows
Special Jury Citation – Sheron R. Dayoc for Angan-Angan
