Business: SP Urges Bacolodnons to Support the Bacollywood Film Show
Members of the Sanggu-niang Panlungsod of Bacolod have approved yesterday the resolution submitted by Councilor Ceasar Distrito to support the Bacollywood film show at Robinson’s Movie World, on February 8-11, 2002 at the Robinsion’s Movieworld.
Themed, “Empowering Regional Cinema”, Bacolly-wood Festival showcases documentary films featuring the events and struggles of the sugar industry in Negros, and how it affected the lives of 2.7 million inhabitants. It will be shown at Robinson’s Movie-world on February 6-11, 2012.
The film will also feature interviews and stories from the sugarcane workers and the landowners in Negros on how the sugar industry shaped their present situations.
The festival will open the awareness of students and the ordinary citizens of Bacolod City regarding the stories behind the rise and fall of the sugar industry and Negros and how it affected the lives of so many people.
There will be films from Pampanga, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan and provinces in Bicol and Min-danao that will be shown during the duration of the festival that will reflect the cultures of various regions where they were produced.
Since December last year, Bacollywood has been showing independent films for free in barangays (villages) in the city to create awareness and appreciation of what can be made in the regions.
BACOLLYWOOD: CINEMA REHIYON is the first national film festival that gives premium on movies created outside of Metro Manila, dubbed the other Philippines and the film festival features short and full feature films reflective of our diverse local cultures, produced by emerging Filipino filmmakers and set in various regions of the Philippines.
It is a non-competition film festival that aims the spotlight on the film communities that are growing rapidly across the nation;
Cinema Rehiyon is a National Independent Film and Video Art Festival which is a pilot project of the National Commission of Culture and the Arts. Bacollywood, on the other hand, is the Negros component of the festival.
It has brought together stakeholders, professionals and students of the growing independent filmmaking movement in Negros.*
