Philippine Blog Awards 2010Pasion and Reyes Win Top Honors in Berlin’s Asian Hot Shots 2009
Filipino filmmakers Francis Xavier Pasion and Mark Reyes bagged the top Asian Hotshots Berlin Filmfest 2009.
Pasion and Reyes’ creations bested other films from Japan, China, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and India.
Pasion won the Best Feature film for Jay, the story about the brutal murder of a gay school teacher and the background of this case. Told as a grim, incisive satire and textbook of the corruptive and manipulative mechanisms of mass media.
In the same way it is a mediation on the ways in which the third world is produced everyday as a spectavle and audiences who prefer their entertainment to be as crazy as their lived reality. What is reality? How is it constructed? And in whose interest?
Asian Hotshots Berlin Filmfest 2009
Francis X. Pasion graduated at the Ateneo de Manila. He worked as a soap opera writer for TV abd directed award-winning short films. Shocking experiences coming wiht his assignment as headwriter and producer foa a public service program inspired him to write the screenplay of JAY.
The Best Short film First Prize went to Mark Reyes’ God Only Knows. A 17 minute film about a heart-gripping story from the slums: forced by economic circumstances a mother has to look for foster parents or her infant son. However, paradise expected in the first world can easily mean hell as well.
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