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| May 26, 2004 (Manila) - eKsperim[E]nto Film and Video Festival proudly announces this year’s members of the Board of Jury headed by Canadian Film Curator, Todd Eacrett who is also the festival director of the Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video. He is joined by curator Deborah De Boer of Canada and filmmaker Vladimir Paskaljevi of Serbia and Montenegro. Acclaimed director Jeffrey Jeturian gets the Filipino slot this year while award-winning installation artist and curator, Alfredo Juan Aquilizan, also from the Philippines, is specifically brought in to head the New Media Category Jury. As always, our festival invites a young blood to be part of the jury and the slot went to single-named filmmaker, Edwin of Indonesia. eKsperim[E]nto has been consistently praised for its respectable and diverse set of jury every year. It has been the first international festival in the country to establish a formalized international jury system, thereby giving importance to its selected jury members. It is also the only festival that has, by far, invited formidable underground filmmakers from all over the world including countries like Japan, Zimbabwe, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Australia, Serbia and Montenegro, Indonesia and ethnic minorities from the United States of America. The debut of the New Media category, another first from eKsperim[E]nto, shall be juried by an all-Filipino set of artists because all entries are mounted in Manila. All the other categories shall be judged by the six-member International Jury. Jury discussions are done online via an exclusive e-group specifically created for online deliberations. Winners of this year’s festival In Competition entries shall be announced on June 15, 2004. The awards night was postponed due to the holding of the Philippine National Elections last May 10, 2004 (Votes are still being tallied as of release of this announcement). Below are the biographies of this year’s distinguished members of the Board of International Jury. eKsperim[E]nto is currently on tour in key provincial sites in cities like Iloilo, Cebu, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod and Dumaguete. |
| 2004 International Board of Jury Announced |
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TODD EACRETT [Canada] Chairman of the Board of International Jury Todd Eacrett is the co-founder and Festival Director of the Antimatter Festival of Underground Film and Video, an international festival of experimental and hybrid media in Victoria, Canada. He is a graphic designer, photographer and filmmaker with a specific interest in the collusion of art, arcane processes and obsolete technologies. DEBORAH DE BOER [Canada] Deborah de Boer is a writer, curator, and the Director of Rogue Art in Victoria, Canada where she has organized and curated over 150 exhibitions of contemporary art since 1991. She is the co-founder, with Todd Eacrett, of the Antimatter Festival of Underground Film and Video, now in its seventh year, for which she has served as curator since its inception in 1998. VLADIMIR PASKALJEVI [Serbia and Montenegro] Vladimir Paskaljevi is an award-winning filmmaker, editor and scriptwriter. A graduate of the Belgrade Film School, his early short film “Dolphins are Mammals” toured numerous film festivals and was awarded the Critics Prize in Montreal and an Audience Award in Capalbio, Italy. He has since directed many short films and is currently directing a documentary series about Gypsies for RTS Television. JEFFREY JETURIAN [Philippines] Jeffrey Jeturian, fresh from the box office and critical success of his latest film ‘Bridal Shower’, is one of the Philippines’ youngest directors. His first film ‘Sana Pag-ibig Na’ (Enter Love) quickly catapulted him as a major filmmaker reaping acclaim from local critics and award-giving bodies. His follow-up films ‘Pila-Balde’ (Fetch a Pail of Water) and ‘Tuhog’ (Larger Than Life) were widely praised by critics here and abroad, giving him his first Gawad Urian (an award by the country’s top critics) Best Director Award and the Gold Award at the 2000 Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, Texas. His films have toured festivals in Sweden, Singapore, USA, Slovak Republic, Italy and many others. ALFREDO JUAN AQUILIZAN [Philippines] Alfredo Juan Aquilizan is one of Philippines’ acclaimed installation artists. He is a Fine Arts graduate of the Philippine Women’s University and has Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Norwich School of Arts and Design of the Anglia Polytechnic University in England. He has been recipient of many awards including the International Awards for the Arts; Freeman Foundation Asian Artists Award; the Art Association of the Philippines Award; and, the Philippine Art Award. Also a curator, he has exhibited in various prominent art exhibitions including the 2003 Venice Biennale; 2002 Busan Biennale; 2000 Septa Biennal de la Havana; 1999 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennal of Contemporary Art; and the 6th Havana Biennale. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities (College of Arts and Letters) at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna, and, a Visual Arts Instructor at the Philippine High School for the Arts in Makiling. EDWIN [Indonesia] Edwin was born in Surabaya, Indonesia. His background in Graphic Design gave him a stronger influence in his visual forays into filmmaking. He is still studying Film Directing at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts. His works, now touring in many film festivals, include “Urban Space” and “A Very Slow Breakfast”. |
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| (Manila, Philippines) – eKsperim[E]nto Film and Video Festival, the Philippines’ first and only festival of international non-mainstream films, videos and new media, announces its list of complete winners for its 4th edition (2004). Heading the list of winners are USA’s Skip by Ann Steuernagel and Spain’s Revolucion directed by Martin Rosete and, in one of the rare moments in eKsperim[E]nto’s history and the very first time at that, the short films bagged the Grand Jury Prizes and the Audience Awards for their respective categories. Skip, the top winner in the experimental category, is an interesting experimental film composed of found footage of children at various stages of cognitive and physical development attempting to overcome an array of obstacles. Revolucion, winning in the short fiction film category, features a romantic protagonist who decides to break the usual order of things and starts a revolution as a result of boredom, stress and monotonous life. The other Grand Jury Prizes are: Contamination by Carl Stevenson of UK, besting the short animation category; De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde’s Ako 1 by Ryan Vergara of the Philippines, winning in the Student Autobiographical Video category; Silliman University’s Pagkatapos ng Ulan by F.L. Brillantes, emerging on top in the Student Video category; and, Silent Movie for Deaf People by Michael Brynntrup of Germany, an online flashfilm, standing out in the New Media category. The Best Filipino film of the festival went to Herbert Navasca’s Timbang Lata, considered Philippines’ strongest contender in the International Competition category. The film is a rather surreal look at a segment in the life of a struggling gay guy. Timbang Lata bested a wide selection of works by young and under-represented Filipino filmmakers. The Grand Jury Prize winners were selected by an international jury headed by Todd Eacrett, the Festival Director of the Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video in Victoria, Canada. The other members of the jury included Deborah De Boer of Canada, curator of Rogue Art Gallery and the Antimatter Festival; Vladimir Paskaljevic, filmmaker and author, from Serbia and Montenegro; acclaimed director Jeffrey Jeturian of the Philippines; single-named filmmaker, Edwin, of Indonesia; and, Installation artist, Alfredo Juan Aquilizan of the Philippines who headed the New Media category jury. eKsperim[E]nto is the only festival in the country accepting and screening non-mainstream films from all over the world in multi-media formats. It is also the only international festival in the Philippines to incorporate video installations, hyper-narrative videos, CD-ROMs, new media, abstract PC animation and other forms of expanded cinema in their festival programs. The festival’s 2004 provincial tours is still ongoing and it will be touring the Visayas area this September as it invades Iloilo and Dumaguete cities. Central Philippine University, one of Iloilo’s best universities, play host and exclusive venue for this year’s tour in Iloilo City slated on September 8, 9 and 10, 2004, while Silliman University, the largest university in Dumaguete City and an active sponsor of the festival, will once again be the official venue of eKsperim[E]nto in Dumaguete City scheduled on September 15, 16 & 17, 2004. Silliman University will be celebrating not only its second year of hosting the annual festival but the victory of Brillantes in the Student Video category besting all five works from Metro Manila schools. Brillantes’ video is the only provincial work selected from among hundreds of submissions – another first in the festival’s category. The festival winners passed two selection processes as 424 films from all over the world were trimmed down to not more than fifteen films per category. This year saw more than 100% increase in the submissions of films to the festival including curated international programs. eKsperim[E]nto has the most number of declared short film submissions in any film festival in the Philippines ever! Bottomline, this year’s festival is history in the making. eKsperim[E]nto has received submissions from countries like Uganda, Russia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Switzerland, Iran, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany, Mexico, United States of America, Spain and Canada. eKsperim[E]nto has established itself as a festival that gives recognition to non-mainstream films that are, later on, collecting awards from other film festivals around the world. eKsperim[E]nto was proud to be the first ever festival in the world to award Just a Little Bit Of Love by Peter Foott of Ireland, our Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Short Fiction Film last year (2003). The same film, after winning at eKsperim[E]nto, went on collecting awards and citations including a nomination for the prestigious BBC’s Film Talent of the Year Award. |
| eKsperim[E]nto Filmfest bares winners and announces its Visayas tours |
| Here is the complete list of winners for this year’s eKsperim[E]nto Film & Video Festival: SPECIAL AWARDS FOR FEATURED FILMMAKERS Special Award, Filmmaker in Focus: Jonah A. Lim (Philippines) Special Award, International Filmmaker Spotlight: Garine Torossian (Canada) Special Award, Discovery Filmmaker: Manny Montelibano (Philippines) Special Award, Student Discovery Animator: Mark Ylagan (Philippines) |
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| JURIED AWARDS Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Short Film: Skip by Ann Steuernagel (USA) Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Fiction Film: Revolucion by Martin Rosete (Spain) Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short: Contamination by Carl Stevenson (UK) Grand Jury Prize for Best New Media Work: Stummfilm fur Gehorlose (Silent Movie for Deaf People) by Michael Brynntrup (Germany) Grand Jury Prize for Best Student Autobiographical Video: Ako 1 by Ryan Vergara (Philippines) De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde Grand Jury Prize for Best Student Video: Pagkatapos ng Ulan (After the Rain) by F. L. Brillantes (Philippines) Silliman University |
| CRITICS’ PRIZES Critics’ Prize: Erotography for the Fastidious Connoisseur by Etienne Desrosiers (Canada) Best Filipino Film of the Festival: Timbang Lata (Tin Pail) by Herbert Navasca AUDIENCE AWARDS Audience Award for Experimental Film: Skip by Ann Steuernagel (USA) Audience Award for Short Fiction Film: Revolucion by Martin Rosete (Spain) Audience Award for Animated Short: Hello by Jonathan Nix (Australia) Audience Awards for Out of Competition Films: Stages of Life by Patrick Boivin (Canada); Resolving Power by Francois Miron (Canada); Plaid: Itsu by Pleix (France) Audience Award for GBLT Film: The Milkman by Ken Takahashi (Canada) CITATIONS Special Citation for Short Documentary: Armor of God by Brett Ingram and Jimmy Havercamp (USA) Festival Citations to: The Champagne Club by Joao Machado (Brazil / USA) Maxima’s Miracle by Van Paul Ruven (The Netherlands) Imitations of Life by Mike Hoolboom (Canada) Argent Liquide by Shaun Andrews (Canada) Revolucion by Martin Rosete (Spain) Timbang Lata by Herbert Navasca (Philippiens) Achtung – Respect (Concentration Chair) by Michael Brynntrup (Germany) The Milkman by Ken Takahashi (Canada) Stages of Life by Patrick Boivin (Canada) Sui Generis by Alexander Nothis (USA) Tempo Suspenso (Explosao Introspectiva) by Rodrigo Areias (Portugal) |
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