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BATANG WEST TRIANGLE SCREENINGS: ISHMAEL BERNAL’S PAGDATING NG DULO

Ishmael Bernal’s first feature film Pagdating sa Dulo will be screened on October 8, 2009 (Thursday) at Fully Booked High Street. 8-10:30pm. Preceding it will be Cesar Hernando’s short film Kagat ng Dilim starring Piolo Pascual. GO!

Pagdating sa Dulo

(1971) Black & White, 35mm

90 Minutes

Written & Directed by Ishmael Bernal; Cinematography by Delfin Carretas; Editing by Teofilo de Leon; Music by Francisco Buencamino & George Sison; Sound by Luis Reyes; Cast Rita Gomez, Vic Vargas, Eddie Garcia, Rosemarie Gil, Ronaldo Valdez, Elvira Manahan, Zeneida Amador, Subas Herrero, Joonee Gamboa, Ernoie Zarate, Ellen Esguerra, Ramon Moral, Edwin Tecson, Narlina Robles, Leticia de Guzman, Delia Javier, Roy Alvarez.

A taxi dancer (Rita Gomez) and a taxi driver (Vic Vargas) are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a serious film director (Eddie Garcia) and a commercial film director (Joonee Gamboa) with their producers (Zeneida Amador and Subas Herrero). The obsession of success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which suppress and eventually destroy them as persons and as lovers.

Pagdating sa Dulo is the first film by National Artist Ishmael Bernal who eventually made 51 full-length films. He also made several documentaries for Ibon Foundation. Pagdating sa Dulo won Famas award for best screenplay.

Kagat ng Dilim

(2006), Color, 35mm

14 minutes

Produced, Written, & Directed by Cesar Hernando; Photographed by Rody Lacap; Editing by Jess Navarro & Raymond Red; Music by Malek Lopez; Art Direction by Danny Red; Cast Piolo Pascual Roeder Camañag, Jess Evardone, Mike Lloren, Dido de la Paz, Richard Cunanan, Katrina Garcia, Ruben de Jesus, and Yul Servo….. Hernando’s Hideaway Production.

Based on a true account about a group of Huk guerrillas in Sierra Madre mountains that fall prey, one by one, to an invisible enemy. The Huks who are killed are found to have bite marks on their necks leading to talk that they were slain by aswang (vampire).

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