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<\/p>\nStudent filmmakers from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde asserted their mastery of \u201cthe longest-running student film festival in the Philippines\u201d by taking the top two prizes and more during the 20th CineMap\u00faa International Student Film Short Film Festival awards night held recently at the Map\u00faa University Gymnasium in Intramuros.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaan Aabot ang Dapithapon?\u201d (Where Do Sunsets Go?), written and directed by Trixie Vertera and Carissa Sierras of DLS-CSB, garnered the Cardinal Gold Film Award, Best Performance of an Actress for veteran singer-actress Celeste Legaspi, Best Production Design for Paurine Shibata, and Best Sound Design for Orion Flynn at CineMap\u00faa 2023\u2019s intercollegiate category.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSaan Aabot ang Dapithapon?\u201d focuses on a grandmother (Legaspi) and her granddaughter (Kat Galang), as they search for a missing spark plug in a garage filled with mementos to bring an old car back to life, and into the streets again. The short film centers around life, death, and finding meaning to it.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPig\u2019s Game,\u201d written and directed by their fellow Benildean CM Bautista, bagged the Cardinal Silver Film Award, Best Performance of an Actor for James Ramada, and Best Screenplay for Bautista and co-writer Tristan Aguilar. The film revolves around a run-of-the-mill theater actor caught up in an audition for a government propaganda material.<\/p>\n
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Moreover, \u201cAlingasngas ng mga Kuliglig\u201d (The Gossips of Cicadidae) written and directed by Vahn Pascual, also from DLS-CSB, got the Cardinal Audience Award and Best Original Music for Karl Arthur Javier and BenildeFilm alumna Nik Rosacay. In the film, a boy who is forced by his father to become the next folk healer of their town, secretly despises his conventional boring life. This until he falls in love with a tikbalang, a Philippine mythological creature which has the head and hooves of a horse.<\/p>\n
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Pascual ruled the previous edition of CineMap\u00faa when his film \u201cSina Alexa, Xander at Ang Universe\u201d got the Cardinal Gold Film Award, Cardinal Best Performance of an Actor for himself, Cardinal Best Film Editing for Corlisse Nicolas, and Cardinal Best Production Design for Melissa Cuarderno and Ralph Mojica. In addition, his other short film \u201cSilang Mga Naligaw sa Limot\u201d received the Special Jury Award.<\/p>\n
Organized by Map\u00faa University\u2019s School of Media Studies, CineMap\u00faa received 2,892 film entries from 108 countries. Fifty entries were selected as finalists, with 15 of them competing in the intercollegiate division, five in the high school category, 10 in the all-Map\u00faans group, and 20 for the World Film section.<\/p>\n
\u201cSi Oddie,\u201d about a rider who embarks on a delivery to a customer who cannot be located, secured the Cardinal Bronze Film Award and Best Direction for Maria Kydylee Torato of UP Visayas. \u201cThat Night the Moon Shined\u201d by Xzyron Dumabok of UPFI brought home Best Cinematography for Moore Minglana, while \u201cPempem at ang Bomba Magasin\u201d by Migs Ruallo of Far Eastern University grabbed Best Editing for Gene Francis Sayson. \u201cSiya na Iba Sainda\u201d (She Who is Different from Them) by Joshua Doce of Bicol State College of Applied Sciences and Technology took the People\u2019s Choice awards for poster and teaser.<\/p>\n
Other short films from Benilde, namely \u201cMakoko sa Baybay\u201d (I am Going to the Beach) by Mike Cabarles and \u201cLilip\u201d (Hem Stitch) by Yanie Cruz, also made it to the list of finalists which were all shown onsite at the newly constructed 150-seater Map\u00faa Cardinal Cinema, Francisco N. Cervantes Hall, and MPO508 at the Makati campus, and the audio-visual and seminar rooms at the Intramuros campus from March 13 to 18. The films were also screened online at www.yfilms.ph from March 22 to April 5.<\/p>\n
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