Yeshua listens.
[dropcap size=big]V[/dropcap]ia Inquirer.net, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (F.D.C.P.) has announced a travel assistance program that promises a standardized incentive scheme for filmmakers who require financial aid to attend international, outside-the-country film festivals that their films are competing in.
The timing of this news—while doubtless welcome—to me, is personally creepy. I just recently spoke with and lent an ear to a filmmaker friend who lets out his woes about competing internationally; and not twenty-four hours later, we get this announcement. The point? Yeshua, indeed, works in mysterious ways.
Here is a brief rundown of the new program’s scope:
- A full-length film that is part of the main competition under the category, “Competitive Feature Film Festivals”, can avail of airfare for two persons (the filmmaker, actor or a member of production staff), their hotel accommodation for three days and two nights at a partner hotel and a per diem for three days ($50 or $70/day depending on the country).
- A film for exhibition/screening is entitled to airfare for one person.
- A competing short film is entitled to airfare for one person (the filmmaker, actor or a member of production staff), as well as hotel accommodation for three days at a partner hotel.
- A short film that is up for exhibition will get financial assistance in the amount of not more than $500.
- Full-length projects competing in the “Specialized Feature Film Festivals” category will be entitled to airfare for one person and hotel accommodation for three days. The same will be accorded to competing documentary films and short films.
- Full-length films that will be up for screening/exhibition will get airfare for one person.
- For the “Noncompetitive Feature Film Festivals” category, full-length films are entitled to airfare for one person.
- For the “Documentary and Short Film Festivals” category, competing films can avail of airfare for one person as well as hotel accommodation for three days, while exhibition films are entitled to financial assistance in the amount of not more than $500.
- Filmmakers may avail the program twice per year maximum.
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F.D.C.P.’s program officially launches in October; a group of Filipino delegates attending the 2016 Busan International Film Festival are the first ones to avail.
The fact that it took a filmmaker of Lav Diaz’s stature is for sure not empowering, but it’s finally here. And that, in the end, is what matters. And that my filmmaker friends who think their passports will collect dust in the closet—that filmmaking is a dirt-poor is still, at least to many of us, is a hard-rock, relevant fact—are seeing changes that, no matter how small, inspirits.
Let me know what you think of this news in the comments. Dali!
