FROM PEP.PH: "Confessional" screens at IndieSine starting August 13
Jocelyn Dimaculangan
Monday, July 14, 2008

Cinema One Originals' digital movie Confessional brought home five
major awards at the 24th Star Awards for Movies by the Philippine
Movie Press Club (PMPC) held at Henry Lee Irwin Theater in Ateneo de
Manila University last June 27.

It bagged the Digital Movie of the Year award, Digital Movie
Directors honors for its young filmmakers Jerrold Tarog and Ruel
Antipuesto, Digital Movie Editor of the Year for Pats Ranyo, Digital
Original Movie Screenplay for Ramon Ukit, and Digital Movie Sound
Engineer for Ditoy Aguila and Rudy Gonzales.

Produced and released last year, Confessional was one of the
finalists of the annual Cinema One Originals Digital Movie festival
and competition. This mockumentary has real people in the cast. It
follows Ryan Pastor, a fledgling filmmaker who goes to Cebu to
document the Sinulog Festival but then stumbles upon an unexpected
subject who will make a stunning mark in his documentary. A former
politician who decides to confess all his sins, the crimes,
corruptions and even murders he committed while in office, before
Ryan's camera. What follows is a string of unearthed secrets and
sweet lies. Thus, it has the catchphrase of the movie equation-
style: "Lies + Lies = Truth."

Being their first feature film, Tarog and Antipuesto were overwhelmed
by the success of Confessional when it won the Best Film and Star
Cinema Special Awards at the Cinema One Originals Awards Night in
November 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel Makati.

At the PMPC Star Awards, both directors extended their gratitude to
Cinema One's Channel Head Ronald Arguelles who says the recognition
of these digital films from the movie press has made the channel's
annual digital movie project and festival a potent venue for young
bloods of the new Filipino cinema. He adds: "Confessional's success
in the film awards circuit reflects that Cinema One Originals
contributes and brings a new wave of directors, new stories from
exciting screenplay writers and young film artists and actors who
will keep local filmmaking scene from dying. Cinema One Originals
hopefully aims to offer a wide variety of Filipino stories and to
detour from predictable or formulaic stories."

Following its triumph, Confessional will be screened for one week at
the Robinsons Galleria IndieSine starting August 13, 2008.
Confessional is a 2007 production of Cinema One Originals annual
movie project. The project and the channel are owned by Creative
Programs, Inc.