Just Cause Film Series

HOSTED BY:

Emmanuel Dela Cruz

FEATURING:

Grig C. Montegrande
Laura Lappi
Emmanuel Dela Cruz
Dahci ma
Pepper Marcelo
&
Martha Atienza

@

9 PM - 12 AM. Mogwai, Saturday, 2nd of August, 2008.
Quezon City
Unit 62-63 Cubao Expo (formerly the Marikina Shoe Expo)
Cubao - located near Gateway Mall
Quezon City

The Just Cause Film Series invites cinefreaks and cinefans to an
evening of Tears & Fears
& Cheers at Mogwai Café, easily the best place to watch films in the
entire city.

This Saturday take a ride with Grig C. Montegrande! Imagine different
futures with
Emmanuel Dela Cruz, feel under(over) dressed with Martha Atienza!
Discover enigmatic
Laura Lappi & Dachi ma and meet the filmmaker Pepper Marcelo! In the vein of the
wonderful announcements from the Green Papaya Group (GPG), be
frivolous about this.

Shout about the Just Cause film screenings into the wind, tell your
plants and pants,
uncles and aunts and best friends and worst enemies. Whisper about it
in dark corners and
let it bask in the light of day. Just Cause doesn't need a reason, it
just is – is
without pretentions and welcome to all!

Most filmmakers will be present for Q & A's after their film screenings.
For more information about the featured films, read on further. We
have also included
some stills from Dachi ma's NEVERTHELESS & THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE.



THE FILMS:

SAKAY (15 min) - Grig C. Montegrande

Every taxi ride is different, every taxi driver has a story to tell in Grig C.
Montegrande's study of the streets of Metro Manila by night as seen
through one taxi
driver's conversation with his passenger.



IMAGINING EDSA (7 min) & MARIA CLARA (4 min) – Emmanuel Dela Cruz

SYNOPSIS: How does the present youth feel about the Edsa Revolution?
This and other
questions haunt the character in this lyrical piece by recognized
Sarong Banggi director
and writer Emman Dela Cruz.



FILMMAKER (18 min) - Pepper Marcelo

SYNOPSIS: Sigfreid Barros-Sanchez is a scriptwriter and independent
film director who has
worked in both mainstream and independent film and video.
“Filmmaker†takes a look at
his highly creative, oftentimes crazy career - his experiences, trials
and tribulations,
and lessons learned to showcase a portrait of contemporary filmmaking
in the Philippines.


Includes an interview with Sigfried, plus film, video clips and still
photographs
spanning his life and filmography.



MAN IN SUIT (5 min/3SCREEN) & 40M2 IN MIND (7 min) & LEGASPI (WORK IN
PROGRESS – 20 – 30
min) – Martha Atienza

SYNOPSIS - MAN IN SUIT - Some say: Clothes make the man. Martha
Atienza (NL/PI) became
intrigued by the thought: "What if 'ordinary' Filipinos wore suits?"
In the installation
normal people, occupied by their daily routine, wear a suit.

Suits represent decisions and negotiation, travelling and influence.
The first world.
Most of the Filipinos seldom wear a suit: that is reserved for
marriage and death.



UNTITLED 6 (36 min) & COWBOY (1 min) – Laura Lappi

SYNOPSIS: NOT AVAILABLE.



THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE (10 min) & NEVERTHELESS - Dahci ma

SYNOPSIS -THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE - It's torn into pieces and gone
with the wind.
The man has sex with the woman.

SYNOPSIS - Nevertheless - The man has sex with the woman.



SCREENING SCHEDULE:

SAKAY (15 min) - Grig C. Montegrande

Q&A

IMAGINING EDSA (7 min) & MARIA CLARA (4 min) – Emmanuel Dela Cruz

Q&A + 10 minute BREAK

MAN IN SUIT (5 min/3SCREEN) & 40M2 IN MIND (7 min) & LEGASPI (WORK IN
PROGRESS – 20 – 30
min) – Martha Atienza

Q&A + 10 minute BREAK

THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE (10 min) & NEVERTHELESS (12 min) - Dahci ma

Q&A

FILMMAKER (18 min) - Pepper Marcelo

Q&A + 10 minute BREAK

UNTITLED 6 (36 min) & COWBOY (1 min) – Laura Lappi

Q&A – END OF SCREENINGS!

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