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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Finally, a Pangasinan full-length movie
By Gabriel Cardinoza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
FINALLY, a full-length movie in the Pangasinan language has been produced, thanks to the pioneering work of Christopher Gozum, a multiawarded independent filmmaker, who is the movie’s director, producer, scriptwriter, sound and video editor, and colorist.
Shot entirely in Pangasinan, “Anacbanua (The Child of the Sun),” will have its premier at the 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival on October 15-25.
The one-hour, 44-minute film is among the finalists in the Digital Lokal Section (Philippine digital films) of the competition.
Gozum, who was born and raised in Bayambang town, said he used the Pangasinan language in the film because it is the breadth and soul of every Pangasinense.
“If a [Pangasinense] stops speaking his native tongue right at the very heart of his homeland or even away from home, he will start to smell like a rotten fish. He is also as good as dead because he had lost his soul,” Gozum said in an e-mail interview.
Gozum has been based in Saudi Arabia since 2007 where he works as videographer and editor.
“I believe this type of filmmaking [that] I do – low-budget digital films that speak and assert a distinct ethnolinguistic identity communicated in my native tongue Pangasinan –is my way of reclaiming what had been lost in my consciousness and identity as a [Pangasinense] because of the politics of a so-called ‘Filipino national language’ and a ‘Filipino national culture,’” he said.
Anacbanua, which is about returning to one’s roots and the current condition of language and culture in Pangasinan, is Gozum’s second Pangasinan film.
Last year, he produced “Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui, tan Kaamong ya Makakailiw ed Sika: Gurgurlis ed Banua (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a mother, a sister and a wife who longs for you: Landscape with figures),” a 15-minute experimental film based on a Pangasinan translation of Carlos Bulosan’s 1942 poem, “Landscape with Figures.”
The short film won Gozum the Ishmael Bernal Award for Most Outstanding Young Filipino Filmmaker during the 10th Cinemanila International Film Festival.
Source: Inquirer Northern Luzon (09/30/2009)
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Cinemanila Finalists Announced: Digital Lokal, Young Cinema, SEA Shorts
The 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival announces its finalists for the Digital Lokal Section (Philippine digital feature films in competition), Young Cinema Section (Philippine shorts in competition and exhibition), and SEA Shorts (Southeast Asian shorts in competition and exhibition). They are as follows:
The finalists for this year’s Digital Lokal are:
* “69 1/2” by Ted Manotoc
* “Anacbanua” by Christopher Gozum
* “Ang Beerhouse” by Jon Red
* “Biyaheng Lupa” by Armando “Bing” Lao
* “Dolores” by Lito Casaje
* “Iliw” by Bona Fajardo
For Young Cinema Competition the finalists are:
* “Dalaw” by Janus Victoria
* “Harang” by Mikhail Red
* “Ito ang Gabing Babalikan Kita Pagkatapos ng Tatatlong Taon nang Hindi Maiiyak at Masasaktan” by Antoinette Jadaone
* “Limang Libo” by Ice Idanan
* “Save Me!!!” by Ramon del Prado
* “Stations” by Emmanuel Quindo Palo
* “To Siomai Love” by Remton Siega Zuasola
For Young Cinema Exhibition are:
* “The Artist Is In” by Marcus Adoro
* “Ang Ibig Sabihin ng ‘OK Lang’” by Ryan Nikolai Dino
* “Gemini” by Leo Valencia
* “Gusto Kong Lumipad” by Glenn Ituriaga
* “Irene F**king Jordan” by Paolo Herras
* “Karoler” by Michael Angelo Dagñalan
* “Technophilia” by Rianne Hill Soriano
* “Waiting Shed” by Ely Buendia
For the SEA Shorts Competition the finalists are:
* “Uwan Init Pista sa Langit” (Philippines) by Remton Siega Zuasola and Keith Deligero
* “Focal Point” (Malaysia) by Alizera Khatami & Ali Seifourri
* “Rat” (Malaysia/Taiwan) by Lau Kek Huat
* “Outing” (Singapore) Jow Zhi Wei
* “Sea Horse” (Indonesia) by Shalahuddin Siregar
For the Sea Shorts in Exhibition are:
* “Lakad ni Sammy” (Philippines) by Joel P. Ruiz
* “Love Suicides” (Malaysia) by Edmund Yeo
* “It’s Not Raining Outside” (Indonesia) by Yosep Anggi Noen
Source: Cinemanila 2009
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Anlong: Balangon na Ngaran
Amingaw kon naamper agano
so imbuas na liwawa'd letakan
'langalang a linmimata'y banua
ta bigta ton nanengneng so lakseb
tan say amaligaygay mon pagew
anggano saray musia na dayat
odino danaya'y kaumaan
onibeg ed yumis na limgas mo
bangta nipanon ka ya sinmulming
dia'd kaereman na Caboloan -
parnasu na tumatagaumen
tan umaanlong iran dapul la'y
kailalaman tan kanonotan
anggapo la'y asin na dila ran
manganlong ed tawir a salita
itepel mo pa so manangaron
onkekerew salo na pirdona
ed impanakew to ya bengat la'd
maginlep tan inggetar mon tawen
no inpangarom bilang pinabli
ag manaasinduana'y linawan
yanlong ed sika'y bilay a dili
yalay inge'y balangon na ngaran
ya agislaan na onan lesa
odino daan ya kamarerua
ag paagere'y boblay ed lupam
ag patertere'y ermen ed matam
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Anlong: Soulmate
ambetel la'y tusang a dinmelnet
ed saray andibaeg kon bibil
kalabian labat singa no ngalab
ira'y angob mon ag nasebseban
saray kukum singa 'ra no tarin
inggalip ed inkawes kon baog
bangta agko alikna so sakit
lapu'd tekep na ey-ey mo'y samit
masnag ed saray aspito'y matam
aninag na matakew ya tawen
ed kabinbintalan ton bilunget
naalonga'y nilaksan bitewen
komun no napatundak so oras
ya kaamsing ka ed kaereman
nibagak ya naalmaan ko la
so inkaadan tan inkapalsa
mangaraldalin man ya gunaet
agko panpagaan ira'y duknal
tan lurey na maimon ya bekta
daput no kalamiong kan pinabli
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A Tao 道 Sign
Santiago B. Villafania, Pangasinan poet, is the author of poetry collections Pinabli tan arum ni'ran Anlong (Beloved & Other Poems), Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007). Villafania is one of the 11 Outstanding Pangasinenses conferred with the 2010 ASNA Award for the Arts and Culture (literature) category during the first-ever Agew na Pangasinan and 430th Foundation Day of Pangasinan on April 2010. Read more »
