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INDIE CINEMA'S TIGHT EMBRACE LINGERS ON... (OR, MY CINEMA ONE MEMORIES 2018).

When someone dies young and fast and soon, we often ask why. When death comes nearer than we think, we could not accept it. We try to fight, we try to solve things out. We try to challenge that Someone Up There. Maybe, He had His own reasons WHY.

Dying young could be so beautiful, but at the same time, could be so tragic, too. As time lingers on, some people could not fully move-on. What more, the DEATH that triumphs at the end.

We all die. We are all mortals, we all have our limited spaces of time and rent, written in the Book of Eternity.

But when someone continues to give you that TIGHT EMBRACE, no matter if he's dead or not, no matter if the INDEPENDENT CINEMA still strives to survive with all its might and power...

Memories will keep on occupying the innermost dimensions of your mind.

And yeah, DEATH was 'almost' the common denominator among all the Cinema One Originals film entries in this year- 2018.

In someone's idea of a Cinema, and an indie film festival that somehow became a part of his life...

Yes. Memories do linger.

Indie Cinema's tight embrace goes lasting... goes deeper.

"AND THIS IS MY CINEMA ONE 2018 MEMORIES".

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joem

The most vivid representation of Art itself was seen by one blogger into the image of one actor named Joem Bascon, one of the lead male stars of the film Double Twisting, Double Back. It could have been choreographed by Some-One Up There. The free-flowing rhythm and steps, we mean.

How cinematic as it was. As Joem Bascon stood there all so suddenly, at the spot and widening view when you reached the third floor of a building in Tomas Morato Avenue- at the party venue named Tomato Kick.

He was just standing there, in a white shirt, looking at you. His soul suddenly connected. In his eyes, was an emotion. But you could not describe it. That look in Joem's eyes.

As the party lingered after the Gala Night opening of the film Double Twisting, Double Back, the stars participated, the stars celebrated. Like visions of those twinkling objects in the skies at night, coming down to earth to party and drink after participating in a glorious film event.

You remembered, too, at the press conference of Cinema One Originals 2018 held at the ELJ Tower of ABS-CBN channel 2, media people were so cooperative and sincere in supporting film events like this one. It was a good sign that the indie spirit would stay, for as long the media people were there.

Perhaps, when these stars smiled a lot on you, it was already the biggest gift of all. And it happened on those many events at Cinema One Originals 2018- from the press conference, Opening Night, Gala nights of each participating films, until the actual screenings of these films wherein the stars could still linger in.

When the stars smiled, they twinkled, too. Just one and the same.

tony

Face-to-face with handsome actor Tony Labrusca, as he stared upon your eyes while you interviewed him, wow, this was something you could not carry. Your nerves giggled and you could not breathe.

neil

As you felt the skin in Neil Coleta's (the star of the film Pang-MMK) cheeks, it was as if there's an angel touching you. It happened when he agreed to pose for a picture with you at the Prescon of C1. And suddenly, you heard his heart's beatings, but your own heart's beatings was louder and heavier.

jude matthew

Looking from far-away a boy you've been watching right when he was still a kid, and seeing him grew-up, and becoming a passionate theater actor and now a film star, overwhelmed you. His name: Jude Matthew Sevilla, one of the stars of the film Bagyong Bheverlynn.

ronald

Every time you sent a FB Private Message to the executive head of Cinema One, in person of Mr. Ronald Arguelles, you felt so shy but you had to. Asking this Executive if you could come on those events, made you nervous. Thanks God, he's more of a friend than a celebrity.

And many more events that followed, in which you attended. Like the Opening Night of the Restored Film Classics which was a part of the C1 fest, too, and yeah, the Gala Night of the film Bagyong Bheverlynn in which you hid yourself from peers and friends-, adding up, the great food cocktails, the glasses of red wine, the hugs and the 'hi's and hello's'....

But you never knew, there was something bigger than all of that in which to come. As in, SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST.

It was the manifestation of CINEMA in all its literal form.

There you were inside the Cinema 7 of SM North Edsa. You were watching the 'Set B Shorts' of the festival. You was simply sitting there inside and the coldness of the huge cinema house was so penetrating. Suddenly you looked around the orchestra section. There was no visible human being there.

You stood up and walked up the Balcony section. Still, no one was there.

But you were feeling a cold wind hanging around you. AND SOONER, THAT VERY COLD WIND WAS EMBRACING YOU TIGHTER AND TIGHTER. All too suddenly, a flash of light.

You went back to your original seat at the orchestra section. You went back looking at the wide screen. You saw the CINEMA in all it's nakedness and artistry. Wonder and freshness. Darkness and exclusivity.

It was just YOU and the CINEMA right at that very moment. Just you and HIM.

Nothing else mattered anymore from thereon.

No matter how painful the journey was in this year's CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS 2018 (yeah, it was too painful for you- the journey itself and the movies you watched were indeed relating somehow),

Art had its way of comforting you back-

via a hidden cold wind

and a

TIGHT EMBRACE

that lasts until the very walls of-

ETERNITY.

(as the words were written by robert manuguid silverio)

"A STAR IS BORN" OPENS THIS YEAR'S CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS FILMFEST...

The tagline for the 14th Cinema One Originals, I AM ORIGINAL, is on one hand a declaration, of uniqueness and of individuality, but it's also a celebration, of that very quality we look for in the films we show, and that includes this year's lineup for the World Cinema section, and our Opening and Closing Films.

Bradley Cooper's directorial debut- A Star Is Born- is a remake of a remake of a remake, and a remake of a film that's beloved in each iteration. At some point, Cooper's friend Eddie Vedder tried to discourage him from touching a classic. The second remake, in 1954, starring Judy Garland, turned the original film about a movie star on the rise and the man who discovers and falls in love with her into one of the most enduring musicals in Hollywood, transposing its Svengali narrative to the music business of the time, while the subsequent 1976 remake, with Barbra Streisand, re-purposed it against a rock n' roll backdrop has become iconic.

Cooper eventually ignored Vedder's warnings and his remake, which stars himself as a down and out country singer who discovers and mentors and is eventually smitten by an unknown singer-songwriter, played by Lady Gaga, in what has been hailed as a breakout performance, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, and has become one of the most unanimously revered and rapturously received films of all time.

"A Star Is Born" opens this year's Cinema One Originals 2018 on October 9 at the Gateway Mall.

The film stars Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Dave Chapelle, Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Elliot.

CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS 2018 OPENS OCT. 12

"ASUANG"

Original. The word, and all its permutations, has been a sinificant part of the festival name for the last 13 years. Originality has always been the one thing Cinema One Originals has championed and pushed for.

"I Am Original" is the tagline of the 14th Cinema One Originals. It is both a declaration, by the filmakers and the performers, and a promise, that this year's films will not be merely awesome but rather flawsome, a word coined to exemplify this year's festival. Originality is never about perfection. Perfection is boring. Originality is about freshness of voice, an unwavering sense of self and the uniqueness of being human, flawed but awesome.

One of this year's Cinema One Originals filmakers is making his third film for the festival. Two are returning to the festival asecond time. Two are stalwarts of the independent scene, one making his long-awaited second film, the other making his ninth. Another is making his second feature after a much-acclaimed debut. Three are making their first features.

Crime seems to be a common thread in most of this year's films but from very different vintage points and perspectives.

"A Short History of a Few Bad Things" by Keith Deligerio, maybe the most straight-forward, a noir procedural that has sociopolitical underpinnings.

Director Joseph Abello fancifully describes his second film "Double Twisting, Double Back" as 'what home feels like'. It's set in the world of gymnastics and a crime sports film.

In "Hospicio", Bobby Bonifacio's return to filmaking, is sort of a sequel to his "Numbalikdiwa", that begins with a botched crime and ends in the hospice of the title, which turns out to be haunted.

Carl Papa returns with this year's fest with another animated feature, "Paglisan", about a couple struggling to keep their marriage alive in the wake of one of them suffering from an early onset Dementia.

In Rod Singh's "Mamu And A Mother Too", a middle-aged transgender finds herself becoming a surrogate mother.

In John Lapus'"Pang MMK", a young man visits his estranged father's funeral with unexpected results.

And on the stranger end of the spectrum, Whammy Alcazaren's "Never Tear Us Apart", somehow manages to make sense combining Third World Espionage with old country folklore.

Even weirder is Rayn Brizuela's "Asuang", which comes on like an odd superhero inversion.

And in Charliebebs Gohetia's "Bagyong Bheverlyn", a heart-broken woman hears that a super typhoon with the same name is fast approaching and realizes it's a typhoon made of her own feelings.

Cinema One Originals is under festival partnership program of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP). Catch the films on October 12 to 21 in trinoma, Glorietta, Gateway, Santolan Town Plaza, Powerplant: in Cinelokal theaters- SM North Edsa, SM Megamall, SM Manila, and SM Sta. Mesa, and in alternative cinemas- FDCP Cinematheque Manila, U.P. Cine Adarna, Cinema '76, Black Maria theater and Cinema Centenario.

mr. ronald arguelles, head of cinema one originals (PHOTO BY: MR. EDWIN DC)

BLOGGER ROBERT with mr. arguelles at cinema one 2018 press conference

FULL STORY COVERAGE AT CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS 2018 PRESS CONFERENCE WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH (OR, I KNOW I'LL NEVER LOVE THIS WAY AGAIN"...)

when we posed for this picture, he embraced me so hard and put his rosy cheeks next to my ears. i could hear his heart beating, but my heart's beatings was louder. almost like PARADISE.
actor Neil Coleta with me at yesterday's presscon for Cinema One Originals2018. neil is the male lead for the film "pang-mmk", directed by john "sweet" lapuz).
(photo by: Edwin DC)

his sincerity, warmth, friendship, concern and love- penetrated my heart.
film executive Ronald Arguelles and me at yesterday's Cinema One Originalsprescon. (photo by: Edwin DC)

I ADMIT, I FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM YESTERDAY. GOSH, HE'S SO DEEP AND MAGNIFYING.
young theater actor, in person of Jude Matthew Servilla, who's among the cast of the film "bagyong bheverlynn" and ME,at Cinema One Originals prescon yesterday.

I know, I'll never love this way again. My personal love for the CINEMA, I mean. Somehow, it transforms you. It gets you there, deeper than the boundaries of earth and the skies...

Yeah, I know. If only the CINEMA ever exists in different dimensions of Time and Space, people has got to be there. All uniting for a common cause. Presenting the Film Arts in a different kind of level. With an all-out independence, freedom of presentations, experimenting in vast forms and labels of any choice.

That was the afternoon when the rains suddenly came pouring-in outside the ELJ Building at ABS-CBN Compound, as I waited for my photographer- Mr. Edwin DC, for a quick coffee break at Mcdonald's before going to the press conference of Cinema One Originals 2018. The venue: 9501 Bar at the 14th floor of ELJ Building.

Somehow, the rains implied something. As it fell upon my shoulders, the water oozed-in beneath my skin. It revealed LIFE, it somehow whispered that more blessings for the Art of CINEMA are out to come. Yeah again, because the best of it all, is yet to come. Via the Cinema One Originals 2018, the last indie film fest for this year.

Upon signing at the reception area, with Media Relations Officer of ABS-CBN Channel 2, in person of Aaron Domingo guiding us through, there was a unique kind of feeling as I saw at once from a distance the many film artists that gathered there. Walking inside the 9501 Bar, the spirits mingled-in and I, at once, became a PART of one artistic community of this prestigious event for independent young film artists.

Actor Joem Bascon was seated in one table corner and he smiled.

Film executive Ronald Arguelles, the head of Cinema One Originals 2018 was the very first person who greeted us upon arrival at the venue. Signifying that he's more of a friend than a celebrity.

Boom-setter and talent manager Shandi Bacolod waved to us, which signaled an end of a 'non-sense' blocking at Facebook and little tampuhan.

Ruffa Mae Quinto made her way out just to approach and greet us. And little flashbacks of the past, at the time that she was just starting, came pouring-in. I whispered to her: "You haven't changed, Ruffa Mae".

Handsome actors Chrome Cosio and Acey Aguilar, who were both our Facebook friends, posed for a picture with us.

The young film directors and cast and crew were all seated on the tables up front, readying themselves for the press con proper.

Suddenly, the whole cast of the film entry Pang-MMK, came entering the venue in full force, with their leader, actor-director John 'Sweet' Lapuz (the director of Pang-MMK), and dashing Neil Coleta, the male lead of the cast, among with the rest of the cast.

John 'Sweet' Lapuz said hello to us, as we greeted him: "Hi, Sweet."

Ana Abad Santos looked so glamorous in her glittering but very simple white dress.

Veteran actors Ricky Davao and Victor Neri, still looked so handsome and appealing despite their maturing looks.

Theater actor Jude Matthew Sevilla stole so many glances from us- because even from far afar, his depth and magnitude as a person overwhelmed us.

Director Rayn F. Brizuela (the director of "Asuang", another film entry) was rather cool and dignified.

Transgender actress Iya Mina, at first we thought, was Charo Santos-Concio. Then, she transformed into a Ruffa Mae Quinto-look, and suddenly, became Cherie Gil. But hey, she's not all that- she's Iya Mina, the lead star of the film Mamu and a Mother, Too....

Aaron Villaflor's smiles and kindness made our day as we approached him on the table, he was the one who entertained us, as the rest of the cast and crew of Mamu and a Mother, Too felt quite surprised when we came rushing-in towards them...

Media and press people, the likes of the Dean of movie journalists- Ms. Ethel Ramos, respected film critic Mario E. Bautista, prolific writer-columnist Nestor Cuartero, editor Eugene E. Asis, snubbish entertainment writer Isah V. Red (our friend), jolly Rommel Placente, dignified Jojo Panaligan (the entertainment editor of Manila Bulletin), blogger Evo Joel Contrivida, pretty Janiz Navida, unassuming Archie Liao, and many more other writers and press-friends, filled-in the venue. These media people simply added more LIFE and grandeur to this important film event.

Sorry if we forgot to mention the other celebrities, film artists and the likes in this fabulous press conference (Yeah, Edgar Allan Guzman and Meryll Soriano were there, too!- rms.*), in which, the most delicious Dinuguan we ever tasted was served. Alongside with Puto, Pancit Bihon, bread fillings, sandwiches, cakes, delicacies and others more. It was a great merienda time.

And, THE PRESS CONFERENCE STARTED. Lights boomed, cameras clicked, people came flashing-in to get nearer to the stars talking, CP video-taking was everywhere, questions and answers came flooding-in. What a moment.

But one celebrity star made it all happy tp happen. She broke the rules of being too formal. She made many people laugh in this great gathering of media and film people and great artists...

She gave good anecdotes, and joked-around wanting to get the Best Actress trophy in this year's Cinema One Originals.

And as the head of the event- Mr. Ronald Arguelles smiled- the female celebrity (as we mentioned above) lingered on...

She was Ruffa Mae Quinto.

And everything else semed to be okay...

much until

the Film Arts exceeded the lingerings and the joys

of

FOREVER.

(as written by robert manuguid silverio)

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS BY: MR. EDWIN DC

at Cinema One Originals prescon yesterday. actress Ruffa Mae Quinto never changed with her very natural attitude.... i love her.
PHOTO BY: Edwin DC

my two real friends in the world of the indie film industry. an executive (MR. Ronald Arguelles) and a boom-setter- (MS. SHANDII BACOLOD), with me yesterday at the prescon of Cinema One Originals. (PHOTO BY: Edwin DC)