These are the three documentaries to screen in QCinema 2019

These are the three documentaries to screen in QCinema 2019

 

QCinema is home to some of the finest independent-produced films in the country. They’ve just announced the three documentary films to receive post-production grant of P500,000 each, while retaining exclusive rights to their films. A move considered a breakthrough in most film festival circuits in the country.

Jet Leyco’s For My Alien Friend, Grace Pimentel Simbulan’s A is for Agustin, and Aleia Garcia’s Spring by the Sea are the three films included in this year’s DocQC category during the festival run from October 13-22.

 


 

Jet Leyco’s For My Alien Friend is about stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time, and dreams alike – all connected from the lens and experience of a stranger, an Alien whose language is disconnected and demands an interaction from the viewer to reconnect these stories to find their own meaning.

[LISTEN]: Third World Cinema Club speaks to Jet Leyco on his works and ‘Second Coming’

 

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A is for Agustin by Grace Pimentel focuses on the life of 41-year old Agustin Tiburcio, an illiterate indigenous man in a remote mountainous region in northern Philippines who wants to learn his ABCs. He gets fed up with being exploited by his employers and decides to go to school with the goal of making a better life for himself and his family.

 

 

 

 

 

Spring by the Sea is a film by Aleia Garcia, showing alternating Philippines and Saudi Arabia as her home and uses personal home videos and present footage to tell the story of her family. 

Aside from DocQC, QCinema has also given grants to filmmakers for its QCShorts and Asian Next Wave competition category. The 7th QCinema International Film Festival officially runs from October 13- 22.  

 

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