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Friday, May 31, 2002

Dare I say it? A Malaysian version of maARTe!!?? And they seem to admire Filipino Cinema too:

Filipino cinema is the most developed in the region on two counts: the biggest output and most relaxed censorship. The country makes over 100 features a year. The sexploitation "bomba" films remain popular and many revolve around the live-sex trade; some of the more acclaimed ones have titles like "Burlesk King", "Manila by Night" and "Midnight Dancers." There is also a social-realist strand that fuses melodrama with political agitation, first brought to world attention by the late, brilliant Lino Brocka. The country's most successful female director, the audacious and ambitious Marilou Diaz-Abaya (whose "Jose Rizal" biopic became the highest-grossing Filipino film in history) is an acknowledged influence on our very own Erma Fatima, currently completing her World War 2 drama "Embun."

Distinct from the commercial cinema of Diaz-Abaya and her peers is the experimental work, mainly generated from the Mowelfund Film Institute helmed by Nick Deocampo. It would be a good coup if the Sarawak fest can get hold of Mowelfund alumnus Raymond Red's wonderful and mysterious short, "Anino", which won an award at Cannes last year.

posted by Erna # 12:30:00 PM

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