FDCP Announces Accepted Feature Projects for First Cut Lab 2019

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The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has selected a lineup of seven (7) feature projects for the First Cut Lab Feature happening from April 11 to 17, 2019.

The First Cut Lab, an international project development and editing lab, is designed to help filmmakers improve their film projects in development and in the post-production stage.

Accepted feature projects for this year’s First Cut Lab under projects in the development stage include Dancing the Tide by Xeph Suarez, Everybody Leaves by Phyllis Grande, Fan Girl by Antoinette Jadaone, Purple Sun by Carlo Catu, Karaoke News by John Paul Su, Thanatos by E. Del Mundo, Babae at Baril (The Girl and the Gun) by Rae Red, and The Perilous Odyssey to Mount Gulsuk by Jordan dela Cruz. On the other hand, selected feature projects in post-production are Hayop Ka! (You Son of a Bitch!) by Avid Liongoren and John Denver Trending by Arden Rod Condez.

Feature Projects in Development Stage

Dancing the Tide

Director: Xeph Suarez

Producers: Roderick Cabrido and Omar Sortijas

Logline: ASTRI, a 16-year old Sama Badjao transwoman, is forced to leave her long-time boyfriend, TAMBULAH, to marry a woman betrothed to her even before she was born.

Everybody Leaves

Director: Phyllis Grande

Producer: Alemberg Ang

Logline: Set in present Japan, a Japanese-Filipina exchange student spends her last months searching for her father while cleaning the houses of people who died lonely deaths.

Fan Girl

Director: Antoinette Jadaone

Producers: Dan Villegas and Bianca Balbuena

Production Companies: Epicmedia and Project 8 cor. San Joaquin Projects

Logline: An obsessed teenage fan finds herself inside a mansion with her celebrity idol she thought she knew and learns exactly why they say never meet your heroes.

Purple Sun

Director: Carlo Catu

Producer: April Batican and Bianca Balbuena

Logline: Purple Sun is a love story between two Filipino men and a Japanese woman set in the majestic landscape and unique culture of Japan. It is a film about the cross-cultural understanding between Filipinos and Japanese in regards to love, sex, and their way of living.

Karaoke News

Director: John Paul Su

Producer: Manet Dayrit

Logline: When a staged karaoke lounge hostage operation goes awry, an investigative journalist must use creative means to unravel and expose the truth.

Thanatos

Director: E. Del Mundo

Producer: Pamela Reyes

Logline: A troubled teen, Samboy, recruits his best friend to be part of a militia that will massacre 58 people.

Babae at Baril (The Girl and the Gun)

Director: Rae Red

Producer: lana Bernardez

Logline: A local department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog when she finds a gun right on her doorstep one night. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give you.

The Perilous Odyssey to Mount Gulsuk

Director: Jordan dela Cruz

Producers: Alemberg Ang, Arleeen Cuevas, John Badalu, and Siege Ledesma

Production Companies: VY/AC Productions and Cinematografica

Logline: When the life of his pregnant girlfriend is threatened by a mysterious illness, Joseph, a reluctant teenage father-to-be, embarks on a quest to save his beloved. His surreal odyssey begins in the Philippines, transitions to the soul-devouring labor camps of Arabia, and ends at the peak of mythical Mount Gulsuk.

Feature Projects in Post-Production

Hayop Ka! (You Son of a Bitch!)

Director: Avid Liongoren

Producers: Joyce Bernal, Piolo Pascual, Erickson Raymundo, and E. Del Mundo 

Production Company: Rocketsheep Studio

Logline: Nimfa the pretty pussycat is a perfume sales kitty at a department store. Her boyfriend, Roger the macho mongrel, is a janitor. Nimfa meets Inigo the bourgeoisie business dog and chemistry ignites! Will Nimfa and Roger’s love keep them together, or will Inigo’s high society charms tear them apart?

John Denver Trending

Director: Arden Rod Condez

Producers: Sheron Dayoc and Sonny Calvento

Production Companies: What If Films Philippines and Southern Lantern Pictures (With Support from Outpost Visual Frontier and Tinker Bulb Productions)

Logline: A 14-year-old farmboy’s life is upended when a video of him brutally attacking a classmate went viral.

On the other hand, two (2) documentary projects will be selected for the First Cut Lab Docs and will be announced in the next coming days. Grantees of SineSaysay Documentary Lab and Showcase will also participate in the Doc Lab.

Summer Workshop by Kids Act Philippines All Set

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Experience the magic this summer !

Join the Kids Acts Philippines’ SUMMER 2019 MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP featuring “SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.”

The workshop will be held from April 10 and shall run up to June 1 (Mondays, Wednesday and Friday). This is open for 3-7 years old (Kinder Theater), 8-10 years old (Children’s Theater), 11-13 years old (Junior Theater); 14 years old and up (Teen Theater) and the Camp Art Scholars.

Venue: Activity Center, Ayala Malls Circuit City.

Fee is P 10,000/ inclusive of workshop materials, costume rental and recital fee.

Kids Acts Philippines is the premier children's theater company in the Philippines, founded by two award-winning Filipino Directors - Luigi Nacario, Best Stage Director in a Musical by Aliw Awards and Best Writer and Lyricist for a Filipino Musical by BroadwayWorld Philippines; and Eugene Belbis, Best Musical Director by Aliw Awards.

KAPI, as what it is popularly known, was named as Best Theater Company by BroadwayWorld Philippines in 2013.

For seventeen years, it has created and produced a number of adapted and original children's musicals performed by an all-kids cast, a pioneer in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Aside from creating and developing new musicals, Kids Acts Philippines, through its TheCampArt Performing School, provides workshops and trainings on acting, music, and singing to students as an after-school activity during school year and to kid dependents of top corporations and companies during summer.

KAPI is being regarded as one of the best and largest workshop providers in the country following an international syllabus for theater education integrated by its own acting approach called S.A.F.E. Acting Technique.

Noted actors and celebrities who are trained by Kids Acts Philippines are Julia Montes (ABS-CBN's “Mara Clara”), Kyline Alcantara (ABS-CBN's “Analisa,” and GMA's “Kambal Karibal” and “Inagaw na Bituin”), Janine Berdin (Champion in ABS-CBN's “It’s Showtime's Tawag ng Tanghalan") and Noel Comia Jr. (Aliw Awards' Hall of Famer as Best Child Performer and a contender of ABS-CBN's “Your Face Sound Familiar Kids” and “The Voice Kids”).

KAPI trains children to become artists underpinning with theater discipline until their stars shine on Stage, TV, and Film.

ENROLL NOW!!! LIMITED SLOTS ONLY!

Contact (+632) 507-3396 / +63 915 447 8959 / +63 919 433 8565 / kidsactsphilippines@yahoo.com.ph.

FEU's President's Committee on Culture Presents the FEU Bamboo Band in A Toast to Broadway on May 4

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Far Eastern University President’s Committee on Culture presents the FEU Bamboo Band in a concert entitled, “A Toast to Broadway” on Saturday, May 4 at 6:00 p.m. in the historic FEU Auditorium. Known as the cultural center of the country in the 1950’s, the FEU Auditorium celebrates its 70th Anniversary throughout 2019.
The FEU Bamboo Band is composed of students from the different institutes of Far Eastern University under the artistic direction of Norberto Cads, who is celebrating his 10th anniversary with FEU. Mr. Cads has extensive knowledge on bamboo music and has participated in numerous international expositions and festivals together with the Banda Kawayan Pilipinas.  He trains his members in various genres of music. The culmination of a whole academic year’s worth of rehearsals taught the members masterpieces from iconic Broadway musicals.
“A Toast to Broadway” features classics from Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia!, Wicked, and Les Miserables on bamboo instruments. The concert celebrates these enchanting hits from Broadway Musicals but also highlights the talented members of the group who are all non music majors. The concert will reinforce to the audience that theatrical music is accessible to everyone, is enjoyable and can be performed on bamboo instruments.
The concert will be further electrified by two exceptional artists namely Mr. Raymond Gorospe and Ms. Banaue Miclat Janssen. Mr. Raymond Gorospe is a host, commercial model, and 2015 WCOPA (World Championships of Performing Arts) multi medallist including Silver Medals for the Gospel and Broadway Vocals Categories. Ms. Banaue Miclat Janssen is a professional performer who has won two Aliw Awards for Best Performance for a New Concept Production, most recently for her performance in Ginugunita Kita in the FEU Auditorium, the Best Actress Award from the Metropolitan Opera Getty Awards for her role in “Salome”, and a Best Actress citation for New York University’s First Run Film Festival for “Giving Care”. She is a professor in the University of the Philippines Diliman’s  Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts. She is the current Artistic Director of Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (DUP) and the UP Playwrights’ Theatre (UPPT).
“A Toast to Broadway” is a free concert that also celebrates the ninety first year of Far Eastern University. Tickets may be downloaded from www.Ticket2Me.net.
For more information about the concert, FEU’s Cultural Groups and other upcoming performances, please visit and like the FEU President’s Committee on Culture Facebook Page, www.facebook.com/FEUPCC or download the FEU Cultural App.
You may also call the PCC Center from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday, at (632) 849-4145