EVENTS: MovieMov: Italian International Film Festival 2012

SHEIKA (2010) 
at the MovieMov: Italian International Film Festival 2012

SHEIKA's writer-director-co producer; Arnel M Mardoquio and Execuitve Producer-Lead Actress; Fe GingGing Hyde at the MovieMov: Italian International Film Festival held at the Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines

Arnel Mardoquio and Fe GingGing Hyde

 Perry Dizon, Fe GingGing Hyde and Arnel Mardoquio

Perry Dizon and Fe GingGing Hyde with the entourage

(Gary and Sheika)
Perry Dizon and Fe GingGing Hyde

Perry Dizon, Fe GingGing Hyde, Arnel Mardoquio, Senator Goffredo Bettini (Moviemov Artistic Director) and the National Artist for Literature Virgie Moreno

with Italian Ambassador Luca Fomari and the SHEIKA team

Fe GingGing Hyde: Executive Producer and Lead Actress from the movie SHEIKA

Fe GingGing Hyde won BEST ACTRESS at the 34th Gawad Urian 2011 from the movie SHEIKA, written and directed by Arnel M Mardoquio

Fe GingGing Hyde with Mary Anne Gomez

Fe GingGing Hyde with Piolo Pascual

SHEIKA meets THELMA
Gawad Urian BEST ACTRESS Awardees; Fe GingGing Hyde (2011) and Maja Salvador (2012)

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EVENTS: Cinema One Originals Independent Film Festival 2012

ANG PAGLALAKBAY NG MGA BITUIN 

SA GABING MADILIM 

at the CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS FILM FESTIVAL 2012

December 3, 2012 - Awards Night

Grand Jury Prize Award for Ang Paglalakbay ng mga Bituin sa Gabing Madilim

L-R : Arnel Mardoquio, Yam Palma, Arnel Barbarona, McRobert Nacario and Jojo Paler

Fe GingGing Hyde - Actress

Perry Dizon - Actor

Yam Palma - Assistant Director

Arnel Barbarona - DOP/Editor/Sound Designer

McRobert Nacario -  DOP/Cinematographer

Joffrey delos Santos - Assistant Production Manager

Jojo Paler - Line Producer

More Here: Facebook Page (Official) 

Photos by: Joffrey delos Santos

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ANG PAGLALAKBAY NG MGA BITUIN SA GABING MADILIM

CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS

FILM FESTIVAL 2012

in cooperation with

Skyweaver Productions, Red Motion Media, HYDEntertainment

Alchemy of Vision and Lights and a CONRAD CEJOCO Film Project

present: 

ANG PAGLALAKBAY NG MGA BITUIN SA GABING MADILIM

written and directed by: Arnel M Mardoquio

Set in Mindanao, Philippines, it tells of a boy’s (Faidal) journey to safety after his parents are killed in a gun

 battle. On his way, overwhelming discoveries are made in his travel.

starring:

Fe Virtudazo Hyde, Gloryperal Dy, Irish Karl Monsanto and Roger Gonzales

also starring: Perry Dizon and Cristine Lim

CAST

Fe Virtudazo-Hyde (Fe GingGing Hyde) as AMRAYDA

Glorypearl Dy as FATIMA

Irish Karl Monsanto as FAIDAL

Roger Gonzales as BAPA INDO



ALSO STARRING:

Perry Dizon as NADZMI

Cristine Lim as FATIMA



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BEST ACTRESS (34th Gawad Urian Awards 2011)

34th Gawad Urian Awards 2011: Best Screenplay - SHEIKA 2010

Actor's Demo Reel: Fe GingGing Hyde

Crossfire (2011) Trailer

8th Dubai International Film Festival: OFFICIAL ENTRY

Written and Directed by: ARNEL M MARDOQUIO

Sheika (2010) Trailer

Written and Directed by: ARNEL M MARDOQUIO

Music and Lyrics: POPONG LANDERO

BEST FILM (Cinemalaya 2010-NETPAC Category)

BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST ACTRESS and BEST EDITING

(34th Gawad Urian Awards 2011)

Hospital Boat - MTV

Written and Directed by: ARNEL M MARDOQUIO

Music and Lyrics: GAUSS OBENZA (Mebuyan ng Mindanaw)

ON WHY THE GHOSTS SHOULD LEAVE THE CCP NOW

By: ARNEL MARDOQUIO

(2nd Tranche Manifesto)

I am prompted to write this piece because of funny stories and images in my dreams last night. I was in the main entrance of the CCP where people begin to troop towards the main theatre. I meet Robbie Tan who is dressed in a gown of Imelda Marcos’, Laurice Guillen greets me as if we were close friends in real life and asks me if her hair is properly groomed. She says the make-up artist applied Tancho pomade so that she would look like Ferdie Marcos. Well, I praise the prosthetic artist for it really got her transformed every inch to look like the dictator.  Another soft voice calls my name and as I turn, lo! I get surprised for he starts to growl like a monster. It was Nes Jardin in fatigue army uniform. He says he will be playing as Fabian Ver. The three of them offer me complimentary tickets for the front row and they are almost in chorus to remind me that I should not miss the part, especially the end part where they will be turned effigies and the people’s power who are already in whooping rage will start burning them to ashes. Hey, that’s no longer funny, it’s almost a bad dream that I could hardly go back to sleep. So, I begin to ponder on a deep thought and concludes that our dreams are helping us in so many ways. In this case it helped me crystallize my thoughts and feelings. Most importantly it helped me clarify why I started to be enraged again with director Emerson Reyes’ row with the gang of three.

Cinemalaya has entered the bastion of CCP and will literally be if they are to continue. It is very important for us to recall in a not so distant past when the people power in 1986 restored democracy in the country. The CCP was one of the great symbols but we knew for a fact that the ghosts of the tyrants still roam in every corner of that building. We celebrated people’s art. Common people can now have access to what we call arts that would matter most to them. Even though the leadership of the institution changes every six years, aside from its posturing as pro-people, the persons who man the port of this art institution are highly mandated to protect first and foremost the welfare of the artists and not just by providing venues.

Why am I so enraged, why is this sentiment not just equivalent to a glass of water that with much ado we tend to drown ourselves? I come to the fore because our welfare as artists in Cinemalaya is being violated. This is the essence of our cause that started out as a silent rage. When Cinemalaya found its house in CCP, my expectations are not personal but institutional. I will be happy and comfortable since this bastion is mandated by the constitution to protect the welfare of the small artist like me, like Emerson Reyes. Contrary to our expectations, our rights are trampled inside this very institution that is supposed to upgrade and look after us.

The gang-of-three who nestled inside the CCP is into the business of trampling the rights of artists/filmmakers. The gang of three may have participated in the ‘peoples power’ in EDSA and gave their contributions in booting out a dictator (I do not know for Robbie Tan who produces bold films for three decades and suddenly now mentoring filmmakers who are into social advocacies), but most importantly, they themselves have helped in booting out the tyrants in CCP during the Marcos dictatorship. Now they are the so-called powers-that-be as they are now the tyrants propped up by friends and supporters. 

When they trampled my right, when they have violated the right of Emerson Reyes, I see the CCP trampling every right of the artists. The CCP is not for our welfare after all. 

If Tony boy Cojuanco have contributed hundreds of millions to the poltical campaign of PNoy, and have asserted the right of Cinemalaya to be at CCP, I should ask CCP leaders now, “Nasaan na ba ang daang matuwid?”

Let the ghosts of dictatorship vanish in the premises of CCP. Let Cinemalaya be booted out of CCP and I will rest my case.

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PERRY DIZON'S REVIEW ON SHEIKA

by: ROLAND VICTOR C. FURTON

Hala Land!!! New moon Na ba karon? Mo ekyas na ba ang Mercury Retrograde? Wasak ka mo review, Bay!

     Yeah, Land, I don't know how to express this...while doing the shoot with the team, I enjoyed with lots of possibilities... Ga-hairline na mood swings..."emphatic nuances of the actor", man gyud ang imong pulong. Crazy mohimo og piyesa si Arnel!!! There were times that we stopped and laughed it out, and say: pang estudyante version napod, Bay!!!

     Yes, may mga deliberate na signs and symbols, archetypal, sacred geometry, design coming from the sky, fighter planes, double character, fun, food and booze, discussions, cooking, shooting, di magkasinabot usahay, saving your act, luod-luod, and again, party after. Enjoy ang proseso!!!

      But the craziest day of our life, was the first shooting day!!! Wow!!! We knew our mise en sce'ne, but Gary didn't have the footwear for the shoot. So,you want me to create a character out of the shoes??? :Tara Nonoy, let's go to the "UKay-UKay" and discover Gary!! Buanga, Bay! Buntag kaayong sayo, naghuwat pa mi nga mangabre ang ukayan sa Bankerohan...medyo layo sa set, (house of Asul), nga walay connection from the outside world... wasak@walang kuryente.com. We had to wrap the scene before dusk- wala kameng ilaw, at nasa kampanya lahat!!

     It was the longest confrontation scene of all time.. The first draft/rough version, is a short short.18 minuter scene. But the final cut/movie version lasted less than 3minutes??? Hahaha!!! No sweat!!!

     In the city, she changed her name to "Shie". Bag-ong lugar, bag-ong pangalan. Istorya ra bitaw nga makaingon ka og: Estoryaheeee!!!.. But, you have to follow a story/script. Ang sak-sak sinagol nga lingua franca Actors has to study hard to connect the invisible arch?

Believe...

Relax...

Survive..

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