The NAFF genre film project market that is attached to the BiFan fantasy festival in South Korea will expand to 40 projects at its upcoming July edition. The 25th edition of the festival will overlap with Cannes, running July 8-18, 2021, with both online and offline screenings, as well as in person audience events, while
âMidnight In A Perfect Worldâ director Dodo Dayao: âGenre films give you aesthetic wiggle room to literalise impossible ideasâ The Filipino filmmaker talks putting a different spin on stale horror tropes, not spoon-feeding the viewer and more Jasmine Curtis Smith in Midnight In A Perfect World. Credit: Geric Cruz Heâs the toast of Manilaâs independent horror cinema, but for Dodo Dayao, the dreaded sophomore slump was as debilitating as the unspeakable spooks heâs projected to the screen. After the critical success of his 2014 debut feature Violator â which won Best Film at Cinema One Originals â the filmmaker set out to do something âas far away from it as possibleâ. And when an attempt at such started fizzling out, he says, âI was in a mild state of panic.â
January 29, 2021 | 12:08 am Font Size Horror movie references curfews under Marcos’ Martial Law and COVID-19 lockdowns WHAT would it be like living in Manila if, once midnight falls, no one is safe? That is the thesis of Dodo Dayao’s horror film, Midnight in a Perfect World, set to show on Upstream starting Jan. 29. Starring Glaiza de Castro and Jasmine Curtis-Smith, the film is set in a dystopian version of Metro Manila where people mysteriously disappear during nightly blackouts at midnight. The two women and two of their friends (played by Anthony Falcon and Dino Pastrano) get caught in a blackout outside and must find a safe house to survive only, the safe house they thought was safe, isn’t.
The best Filipino films of 2020 Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff Updated Jan 5, 2021 5:44:36 PM enablePagination: false endIndex: A shot from Martika Ramirez Escobar s Living Things, starring Kints Kintana (left) and Charles Aaron Salazar. Screenshot from HUAWEI MOBILE PH/YOUTUBE Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) Philippine cinema in 2020 will be remembered not by its films, but the changes the pandemic brought upon the industry. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have been the biggest stumbling block in what is being called the “Third Golden Age” of Filipino films and, overall, the crucible that will determine the future viability of Philippine cinema (or cinema in general).