Sine Caboloan

26/02/2024

https://www.rappler.com/nation/luzon/pangasinan-poet-asna-awardee-santiago-villafania-dies-february-26-2024/?fbclid=IwAR1dKj6MXzkmti2Ru5IV613Ph4InXZqQI_1syT37Q4ILP-S_hYxKE3Nonys

Pangasinan poet and 2010 Asna Awardee Santiago Villafania dies in a Dagupan hospital. He was a champion of Pangasinan heritage.

08/11/2023

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=christopher.gozum.79&set=a.10160158549389779

16/08/2023

"Aripuen" (The Servant), a new feature film I have been writing since 2010 is now officially a finalist in the upcoming 20th edition of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2024. Thank you to the 2nd Southeast Asian Film Lab, the 58th U.P. National Writer's Workshop, and the 2023 Cinemalaya Film Lab for the chance to workshop and develop the screenplay. This project is lovingly dedicated to fellow overseas Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia and South Korea and to my immediate family in Pangasinan. With the Almighty Lord's guidance, may this project find the funders and artistic collaborators to bring the film to its' completion. Mabilay!
https://www.facebook.com/christopher.gozum.79/posts/pfbid0uXWZBSHmwqgs8WM7PFfAgqVju9i3FVNVBhpH353bwqMo6JYViSVVPEL7o3QVR39Sl?notif_id=1692191971634008¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

15/06/2023

Screening of “Dapol Tan Payawar Na Tayug 1931” (The Ashes and Ghosts of Tayug 1931) at the RECIPROCAL 2023, a collaborative film programme between the Asian Film Archive and Eye Filmmuseum.

RECIPROCAL 2023 will take place in Oldham Theatre in Singapore from June 30 to July 30, 2023.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwt0yGo7oIQ&t=60s

https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/reciprocal-2023-eye-filmmuseum/

RECIPROCAL is the Asian Film Archive (AFA)’s annual collaborative film programme that spotlights the archival collections of AFA and a partnering archive. Inspired by and responding to the resonance of each other’s featured collections, the curated line-up explores the creative intersections and...

08/04/2023

LUYAG D'ARA'Y ANINO (A Kingdom of Shadows) - original title
ARIPUEN (The Servant) - revised title
Looking for investors for this 2024 full-length film project. LUYAG D'ARA'Y ANINO/ARIPUEN is currently a semi-finalist in the 2024 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival's Full-Length Category.
Film’s Logline:
An aging Filipina shepherdess is stranded in a remote mountain village in a Middle Eastern country for twenty-one years enduring the harsh mountain cold, threats of imprisonment and deportation, homesickness, unpaid salaries over the years, insanity, and isolation in a foreign country that is hostile, holy, and beautiful.
https://www.facebook.com/.../pcb.../6108915219119021/
https://www.facebook.com/.../pcb.../6108943515782858

24/12/2022

https://www.facebook.com/CinemalayaOfficial/photos/pcb.6108918822451994/6108943515782858

24/12/2022

https://www.facebook.com/CinemalayaOfficial/photos/pcb.6108918822451994/6108915219119021/

08/08/2022

Christopher Gozum's Pangasinan films are now available in daangdokyu.ph. Here are the pages:

https://daangdokyu.ph/documentaries/117
https://daangdokyu.ph/documentaries/116
https://daangdokyu.ph/documentaries/115
https://daangdokyu.ph/documentaries/114
https://daangdokyu.ph/documentaries/113

23/03/2022

Director's Statement for "Agno: Memories of a Forgotten River"

"The pandemic has given us more time to attend to matters that we normally have little or no time at all to pay attention to during our busy daily schedules. One of these activities is organizing our family archives which includes our family’s photographs, old letters and greeting cards, mementos given by loved ones, our home garden, and even our very own house. Our memories embedded in our family archives is priceless.

On a larger and public scale, a community’s memory is also priceless. But there are many communities, especially those in developing countries, with no existing public archives where their collective memories are kept and preserved for posterity.

For this ten-minute creative documentary film, I am again engaging the cinema as a technology of memory. I am using the cinema to create a small part of a larger community archive that shows the collective memory of the people in my hometown. This collective memory pertains to the complex relationship of the people with a major body of water that has shaped their culture and identity.

I want to make a film that creates an evocative autoethnography of the present-day Pangasinan people who have been living for centuries in the Agno River basin. Presently, the Agno River basin is one of the largest centers of agriculture and aquaculture in the northern Philippines, it is also a center for large-scale commercial gold mining operations in the Philippines, it is also the location of one of the biggest as well as highly controversial hydroelectric dams built in Southeast Asia over the recent years, and it is also one of most ecologically unstable and vulnerable places in northern Philippines prone to siltation, toxic mine spill, water quality issues, and massive floodings during the rainy monsoon season."

Christopher Gozum

Watch "Agno: Memories of a Forgotten River" and the 15 other short films of the EKSENA: CINEMA QUARANTINE II at the 14th CINEMA REHIYON 2022. Please follow the instructions on watching the 16 ECQ2 short films online for free.

Here's How to Watch Cinema Rehiyon 14 Films via Vimeo

1. CLICK THIS LINK and Login / Sign-up for a free vimeo account:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/cinemarehiyon2022
2. CLICK THE TITLE of your choice. A new window will open, with more information about the film. 🧐
3. CLICK "Rent", then "Apply promo code", and type in “CR2022” and HIT that "Apply" button! 🤭🥵 (NO NEED to fill up credit card details.)
4. CLICK "Continue", and finally hit the "WATCH NOW" button. Enjoy! 😋🍿
5. CLICK https://vimeo.com/ondemand/agnoriver?autoplay=1
to watch "AGNO: MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN RIVER" online (free).

Christopher Q. Gozum | 13 mins | Short, Docu | 2022 | Pangasinan | WATCH NOW: https://vimeo.com/r/3teU/M2hvZlcxem FREE Promo Code CR2022 A creative documentary…

20/03/2022

Watch "Agno: Memories of a Forgotten River" and the 15 other short films of the EKSENA: CINEMA QUARANTINE II at the 14th CINEMA REHIYON 2022. Please follow the instructions on watching the 16 ECQ2 short films online for free.

Here's How to Watch Cinema Rehiyon 14 Films via Vimeo
1. CLICK THIS LINK and Login / Sign-up for a free vimeo account:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/cinemarehiyon2022
2. CLICK THE TITLE of your choice. A new window will open, with more information about the film. 🧐
3. CLICK "Rent", then "Apply promo code", and type in “CR2022” and HIT that "Apply" button! 🤭🥵 (NO NEED to fill up credit card details.)
4. CLICK "Continue", and finally hit the "WATCH NOW" button. Enjoy! 😋🍿
5. CLICK https://vimeo.com/ondemand/agnoriver?autoplay=1
to watch "AGNO: MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN RIVER" online (free).

Director's Statement:

"The pandemic has given us more time to attend to matters that we normally have little or no time at all to pay attention to during our busy daily schedules. One of these activities is organizing our family archives which includes our family’s photographs, old letters and greeting cards, mementos given by loved ones, our home garden, and even our very own house. Our memories embedded in our family archives is priceless.

On a larger and public scale, a community’s memory is also priceless. But there are many communities, especially those in developing countries, with no existing public archives where their collective memories are kept and preserved for posterity.
For this ten-minute creative documentary film, I am again engaging the cinema as a technology of memory. I am using the cinema to create a small part of a larger community archive that shows the collective memory of the people in my hometown. This collective memory pertains to the complex relationship of the people with a major body of water that has shaped their culture and identity.

I want to make a film that creates an evocative autoethnography of the present-day Pangasinan people who have been living for centuries in the Agno River basin. Presently, the Agno River basin is one of the largest centers of agriculture and aquaculture in the northern Philippines, it is also a center for large-scale commercial gold mining operations in the Philippines, it is also the location of one of the biggest as well as highly controversial hydroelectric dams built in Southeast Asia over the recent years, and it is also one of most ecologically unstable and vulnerable places in northern Philippines prone to siltation, toxic mine spill, water quality issues, and massive floodings during the rainy monsoon season."

Christopher Gozum

Christopher Q. Gozum | 13 mins | Short, Docu | 2022 | Pangasinan | WATCH NOW: https://vimeo.com/r/3teU/M2hvZlcxem FREE Promo Code CR2022 A creative documentary…

26/02/2022

National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ National Committee on Cinema in cooperation with the University of St. La Salle (Bacolod), Sine Caboloan, and the Municipal Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office of Bayambang, Pangasinan present AGNO: MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN RIVER, a short documentary film by Christopher Q. Gozum

An EKSENA: CINEMA QUARANTINE 2 COVID-19 FILMMAKER’S DIARIES short film (2022)

Director of Photography: James Marc Aquino
Editor, Field Sound Recordist, and Art Director: Adrian Adan
Sound Designer: Willie Apa, Jr.
Script Supervisor, Pangasinan Language Translation, and English Subtitles: Chester Odon, Christopher Gozum
Production Coordinator: Jamaine Laine Ferrer
Gaffer: William Bernardino
Production Assistant: Troy Despogado, John Gloria
Creative Producer, Line Producer, Location Manager, and Production Manager: Marie Francine Jimenez-Adan
Executive Producer: Christopher Gozum
Producer: National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Municipal Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office of Bayambang, Pangasinan
Concept and Director: Christopher Gozum

Featuring Reynante Ramos and Mario Junio (Barangay Wawa), Rosalina Vespiras (Barangay Bacnono), Delia Pinto and Silvino Pinto (Barangay San Gabriel 1st), and Myrian Masiglat (Barangay Wawa)

Acknowledgements: Racine Genada, Julius Dela Pena, Dr. Rolando Tolentino, Ms. Tanya Lopez, Mr. Butch Ibanez, Ms. Patricia Espino, Dr. Rafael Saygo, and Dr. Cezar Quiambao

Watch AGNO: MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN RIVER and the other 15 short films of EKSENA: CINEMA QUARANTINE 2 starting February 19 to March 25, 2022 via the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ National Committee on Cinema official Vimeo account, for FREE.

All the 16 short films of the EKSENA: CINEMA QUARANTINE 2 are part of the 14th Cinema Rehiyon which opened last February 25, 2022.

Please see instructions below on watching the ECQ2 short films for free:

WATCH Eksena: Cinema Quarantine (COVID-19 Filmmakers’ Diaries) - YEAR 2 Streaming WORLDWIDE FOR FREE via Vimeo VOD!

Click this link https://bit.ly/ECQ2vod_ECQ2022 or use Promo Code: ECQ2022

ENJOY AND CONTINUE SUPPORTING PHILIPPINE REGIONAL CINEMA!

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