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==Tawi-Tawi hosts local film festival== | |||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=732149 | |||
*September 29, 2011 10:57 AM | |||
:By PhilStar.com | |||
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – The Sineng Pambansa opened Wednesday a three-day film festival in Tawi-Tawi as part of its commitment to bring local films to Filipinos. | |||
The Sineng Pambansa is a program of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP). | |||
“The decision to hold a Filipino film festival in Tawi-Tawi underscores the commitment of the FDCP to bring Filipino films to Filipinos, wherever they may be in the scattered islands of the archipelago, or in their overseas communities,” FDCP said in a statement. | |||
The event is also the first ever cultural activity of its kind to be staged in the province, which in the past was considered a remote outpost. | |||
It said the Memorandum of Agreement for the festival was signed on July 19 by Tawi-Tawi Governor Sadikul Sahali and FDCP Chairman Briccio Santos and Executive Director Jose Miguel de la Rosa at the FDCP office in Makati City. | |||
The film festival in Bongao town, which ends on Friday, is the third location site of Sineng Pambansa in Mindanao. The first was in Zamboanga City on February and the third location would e in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur province on June 28 next year. | |||
The list of films included in the festival were Limbunan (Teng Mangansakan, 2011), Hospital Boat (Arnel Mardoquio, 2009), Last Journey of Ninoy (Jun Reyes, 2010), Alab ng Lahi (Robin Padilla, 2003), Bagong Buwan (Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 2001), Ang Panday (Fernando Poe Jr., 1980) and Tum (My Pledge of Love, 2010). | |||
The Sine ng Masa (mobile People’s Cinema) will feature Badjao (Lamberto Avellana, 1957), Emir (Chito Roño, 2010), Perlas ng Silangan (Fernando Poe Jr., 1969), Home Along da Riles I and II (Efren Jarlego, 1993 and 1997). | |||
The three winning films of the Lanao del Sur film festival’s short film competition on the theme of Peace - Margas (Najib Alyhar Benito Zacaria, 2011), Renek (Doss Lucman Pacasum, 2011), and Pagari (Sittie Ayeesha Dicali, 2011). (Mindanao Examiner ) | |||
==Greece envoy lauds peace situation in Tawi-Tawi== | ==Greece envoy lauds peace situation in Tawi-Tawi== | ||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=731788 | *Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=731788 | ||
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The province is one of the top producers of seaweeds in the country, citing that the area produced thousands of tons of Agar-agar every week to cater to the demand in the Philippines and other countries. | The province is one of the top producers of seaweeds in the country, citing that the area produced thousands of tons of Agar-agar every week to cater to the demand in the Philippines and other countries. | ||
==‘Agar-Agar’ draws thousands of visitors== | ==‘Agar-Agar’ draws thousands of visitors== | ||