2010 Ilonggo Short Film Competition Winners
The 2010 Ilonggo Short Film competition Awarding was held at Amigo Plaza mall. Finally, the awarding ceremony did come to a reality on October 28 when its original date should have been October 8. Technically, this would be the “First Ilonggo Short Film” competition. The “Semana Santa sa Iloilo” Short film competition earlier this year left a lot of participants hanging in limbo. Thankfully, the “Ilonggo short film” did push through the awarding. To sum it up, the promotion of this competition was good but for me it fell short. I had to follow up every week about the date of the awarding and screening. If I wasn’t a participant, it won’t even occur to me that there’s an awarding ceremony going on.
There’s no screening of non-winning entries since the dvds didn’t arrive on time. Even if it did, there’s no time to screen it all since the program started at 6pm. What they should have done is screen it the day before or screened it at around 2pm.
As participant to the Ilonggo short film, I was very much dismayed that the “Certificates of participation” weren’t given out on the awarding ceremony itself. It was announced to just “Pick up” the certificates at the TMX office. I was hoping for the privilege of receiving the certificate of participation and shake hands with the jury. Yes, it’s strange that I’m whining about a piece of paper. For me, that is a big deal. It’s a gesture of appreciation that even if you didn’t win, they recognize your participation.
There’s plans of holding another Ilonggo short film contest next year. But they need to change the mechanics of the contest first. They need to make the competition open to all filmmakers. Why limit it to students or people belonging to an organization? It’s more appropriate to just call it “Ilonggo students short film competition”.
The contest is open to a group of students and/or organization (minimum of three and maximum of 15 in a group) and must represent a school and/or company.
2010 Ilonggo Short Film Competition Winners
Pulo ka Piso (Ten Peso Story) from Benjo Hilario on Vimeo.
Best Short Film – 10 pesos by Benjo Hilario
ELEGY from kharlle hautea on Vimeo.
2nd Place – “Elegy” by Kharlle John Hautea
3rd Place – “Tagkiriwi” of John B Lacson
4th Place – “Ilo”
Special Award – “Lunok”
“Tagkiriwi” of John B Lacson was one of my favorite among the top 5. Despite lacking in technical skills but the narrative and content really fits the theme of an ilonggo. The guy works as trisikad driver by early dawn and a maritime student by day. He struggles to make the ends meet but due to poverty, he lost a family member.
The Elegy for me deserves the top spot. The poetic image and the surrealist part reminds me of a scene from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “holy mountain” intro where a scantily clad guy lies face down on the desert. It’s rare for me to see surrealistic films although I wish some parts were kept short.
The winning film “10 pesos” is more like experimental music video. The concept is unique but I’m bothered that the music used were soundtracks taken from various films like “Slumdog Millionaire”. It’s very distracting to hear “Indian” music playing as the character moves from one Iloilo landmark to the other. I was hoping to see some “Bombay” in motorcycles but no luck.
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4 Responses to “2010 Ilonggo Short Film Competition Winners”
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October 28th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Gusto ko ya ang concept sang Ilo.
November 3rd, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Hi mr blogger. If you haven’t seen Sa Lunok, which was not shown during the awards night, here is a copy of the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsKdLRC1um0 Don’t forget to make your own personal review. Haha. Happy blogging!
November 6th, 2010 at 12:12 am
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Thank you for providing the link. It’s a shame that it didn’t get shown despite getting an award.
November 9th, 2010 at 3:49 am
i wasn’t able to attend the awarding. i wish to see all entries. thanks for the link.