SM
City Iloilo will launch the Brillante Mendoza Film Festival (BMFF), which will feature the International Award-Winning Film-
MaRosa this coming December 15, 2016, 4 pm, at SM City Iloilo Northpoint. It
will be followed by a film screening of Ma’ Rosa on December 16, 2016 at SM Iloilo
Cinema 6 and 7, 8 am.
The
film is about ROSA, who owns a small community convenient store connected to
their home in the slums of Metropolitan Manila. Together with her husband,
NESTOR, they use their convenient store as cover-up for selling illegal
narcotic, Methamphetamines. Their fate changes when their neighbor sets them up
for a police raid leading to the couple’s arrest - a ploy for extortion. Backed
against the wall, Rosa seeks help from her children, JACKSON, RAQUEL, and
KERWIN as they do the daunting task to buy their parent’s freedom.
“The
idea of this film came up four years ago when I became indirectly involved with
the said incident. It captures my interest to tell this story because it shows
a unique but also disturbing characteristic of a common Filipino family. That
when a family member is backed against the wall for the wrong doings that he or
she made, you will do everything to keep them out of trouble even if it means
violating basic virtuous. In a society where survival of the fittest is a fact
that we have to live with, family becomes amoral,” says Mendoza.
Ma’
Rosa is one of the films that competed in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It
garnered the Best Actress award for Jaclyn Jose and Best Director for the 54th
Gijon Film Festival. The fans of Brillante Mendoza will have a chance to meet
and greet with the renowned Director. They will also have a chance to ask him
about his latest film.
Brillante
Ma. Mendoza started as a production designer in various films and television
advertisements. His debut film, Masahista (The Masseur) won the Golden Leopard
Award at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival, and paved the way for
the rise of alternative cinema in the Philippines.
In
2005, he founded Center Stage Productions (CSP), an independent film production
company. Mendoza continues to make films and documentaries that depict the
lives of the Filipinos and the marginalized sectors of society, cultivating an
audience for alternative cinema in the Philippines. His films are shown in
different schools all over the country. Brillante Mendoza is the first Filipino
director to be honored by France with the title Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts
et Lettres.
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