Varsitarian to kick off pro-life film fest
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MANILA, March 3, 2008—True to its pro-life advocacy, The Varsitarian, the 80-year-old student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, will host the Cinevita 2008 Film Festival from March 5 to 7 at the UST Thomas Aquinas Research Center.
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Themed “Celebrating Life, Truth, and Faith,” the three-day film festival will showcase independent films, documentaries, and shorts movies produced by amateur to distinguished Filipino directors as it centralizes on the aim to uphold cinema as a tool for meaningful expressions of life.
Although all documentaries and local films are open to the public, foreign full-length films are exclusive to lecturers, film critics, and students due to public viewing rights restrictions.
Included in the roster of the featured films this year are Brillante Mendoza’s Foster Child and Tirador, Katsi Flores’ Still Life, Jim Libiran’s Tribu, Jade Catro’s Endo, Ned Trespeces’ Trabaho, Joey Velasco’s Kambas ng Lipunan and a documentary from UST Nursing students.
The film roster also includes the international films such as Lloyd Kramer’s Five People You Meet in Heaven, Vincent Ward’s What Dreams May Come, and Mimi Leder’s Pay it Forward.
Directors Jim Libiran, Brillante Mendoza and Manolito Sulit will grace the event as Philippine Daily Inquirer’s entertainment columnist Nestor Torre will deliver the keynote speech on the fest’s maiden day.
Now on its second year, the Cinevita Film Festival is a non-profit and educational endeavor of the Varsitarian together with the UST Institute of Religion, UST Journalism Society, UST Literary Society, and Concilium Philososphiae. (Kris Bayos)
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