In celebration of independent filmmaker Raymond Red's distinguished achievement of winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival 2000 - the most-coveted prize in the world's most prestigious film festival - the U.P. Film Center is honored to screen:
Ang MAGPAKAILANMAN The film is about a book entitled "Ang Magpakailanman." The elements of the film are an inventor, the book, a church, crime and eternal life. All the characters, objects, places, time and events are all but fictional. Raymond Red's first film produced at the U.P. Film Center's Cinema-as-Art Workshop, 1983 Wolfgang Langsfeld Prize, Best Experimental Film: Manila Short Film Festival, 1984; Best Student Film, Best Experimental Film: Experimental Cinema of the Philippines Short Film Festival, 1984 1983 25 mins. Color Super-8 Decoding Red: Q & A with the director, cast and crew to follow. | Close-Up on the Cannes 2000 | |