Catch the Special US Premiere screening of ANACBANUA (The Child of the Sun) at the FACINE16: 16th Annual Filipino American Cine Festival on November 21, 2009 3pm at the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium. (100 Larkin Street @ Grove Street, Civic Center, San Francisco). Free Admission.

Anacbanua/The child of the sun (Christopher Gozum, dir; Sine Caboloan, prod; 105 min, 2009)

The filmmaker’s love letter to his province, Pangasinan, in text and stunning visuals.

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The yearly festival, which is the longest-running event in the US, is organized by FACINE or Filipino Arts & Cinema, International, a not-for-profit media arts organization based in San Francisco, that aims to promote and develop Filipino American as well as Philippine national cinema.

Christopher Gozum’s Anacbanua/The child of the sun, a personal documentary, almost a poetry-film, that serves as the filmmaker’s love letter to his beloved Pangasinan, won best picture honors at the recent Cinemanila Film Festival in October.
 It will be featured on Saturday, Nov. 21, 3:00 p.m.

Cesar Apolinario’s Puntod/Baby’s tomb, a melodrama that hews closely to Lino Brocka’s slum movies, is a raw and brutal depiction of child neglect in a world of extreme poverty.

On the other hand, Seymour Barros-Sanchez’s Handumanan/Remembrance features a lovely performance by Chin Chin Gutierrez as a romance novelist facing immense changes in her career and personal life.

A wide array of new short works by filmmakers from across the US and the Philippines in different formats – documentary, narrative feature, experimental – on varying subjects, will be presented in different programs.

The US-based artists represented in the festival include Angel Velasco-Shaw, Theophilus Jamal, Peggy Peralta, Eric Tandoc, Florante Pete Ibanez, Mark Villegas, Pio Candelaria and producer Cesar Viana Teague. Philippine-based filmmakers include Ivy Universe Baldoza, CJ Andaluz, Nerve Macaspac and Richard Legazpi.
 The festival is co-presented with the Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Main Library. For information, please contact, Mauro Tumbocon, Director, FACINE at (415) 756-7331 or email: mftworks@hotmail.com

Find below the full schedule of the festival.

Friday, November 20, 1-5 pm

PROGRAM 1
Our stories from the ‘hood
1:00-2:00 p.m.

Legend (Mark Villegas, dir & prod; 5 min, 2009) 
Got Book? Auntie Helen’s Gift of Books (Florante Pete Ibanez, dir; UCLA Department of World Arts & Culture/Center for Ethno Communications, prod; 8:45 min, 2005) – short documentary on Helen Brown, the founder of Pilipino American Reading Room & Library
Sounds of a New Hope (Eric Tandoc, dir; Mass Movement & Sine Patriotiko, prods; 41 min, 2009) – Tandoc follows Filipino American rap artist, Kiwi, through his work with youth both in the US and the Philippines where he uses music to raise political consciousness.

PROGRAM 2
In a weird, crazy world of my neighbors:
 Hilarity ensues when Filipinos celebrate reunion; 
imagination soars through moments of craziness and mayhem.
2:00-3:00 p.m.

The Reunion (Pio Candelaria, dir/prod; 3 min, 2009) 
The San Miguel Family Reunion (Theophilus Jamal & Joel Rosal, dirs; Moja Studio & PhlipFLIX Productions, prods; 14:23 min, 2008)
Alice, Interrupted (Theophilus Jamal, dir; MojaStudio LLC, prod; 10 min, 2009) – A special preview screening
Bunot/Husk (Ivy Universe Baldoza, dir/prod; 7:08 min, 2008)
Nekro (Crisostomo Juan Andaluz, dir; Carl and Carl Productions, prod; 19:01 min, 2008)

PROGRAM 3
Special Premiere US screening
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Handumanan/Remembrance (Seymour Barros-Sanchez, dir; Red Room Productions, prod; 85 min, 2009)

Saturday, November 21, 10 am-5 pm

PROGRAM 4
The Filipino, undaunted
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Gami dad Lnumfig/We, the Oppressed (Nerve Macaspac, Audrey Beltran, dir; 32 min, 2008)
- The indigenous peoples of the Philippines are still a people suffering from neglect and discrimination.
 Kinulayang Kitil/Hand-painted feathers (Richard Legaspi, dir; Red Room Productions, prod; 24 min, 2009)
- A young boy yearns to have his own painted chick believing that it can bring back the life of his father shot in a picketline.
 The Momentary Enemy (Angel Velasco-Shaw, dir/prod; 24:30 min, 2008)
An experimental documentary that explores a century’s worth of war rhetoric and filmic representation from the dawn of last century’s Philippine-American War to Vietnam and the Iraq War. Features interviews with Reynaldo Ileto, Howard Zinn and Ninotchka Rosca.

PROGRAM 5
What of woman, herself empowered
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Life Begins at O’Farrell Street (Peggy Peralta, dir/prod; 3 min, 2005) 
Hello, My Name is Clarisse (Peggy Peralta, dir/prod; 3 min, 2005)
Killeg/Long life (Golda Mae Bao-ag Pay-ong, dir; University of Makati Film Society, prod; 9:52 min, 2008)
Soledad is Gone Forever (Mabel Valdivieso, dir; Cesar Viana Teague/Haiku Films, prod; 14 min, 2006)
 Always Faithful (Sam Wellington, dir/prod; in association with South of Ten, Abyssinian Moon Productions, Palindrome Pictures, prods; Esperanza Catubig, star; 13 min, 2008)

BREAK
12:30-1:00 p.m.

PROGRAM 6
Special US Premiere screening
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Puntod/Baby’s tomb (Cesar Apolinario, dir; Arlyn de la Cruz/ADC Productions, prod; 111 min, 2009)
A daughter of Manila’s slums dreams of having a dignified burial space for her mother, forges deep friendships with an old blind man and other children.

PROGRAM 7
Special US Premiere screening
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Anacbanua/The child of the sun (Christopher Gozum, dir; Sine Caboloan, prod; 105 min, 2009)
The filmmaker’s love letter to his province, Pangasinan, in text and stunning visuals.

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