BILANG bahagi ng paggunita sa ikalawang anibersaryo ng pagpanaw ni Eddie Garcia nitong nagdaang Linggo, Hunyo 20, bibigyang-pugay ng 23rd Far East Film Festival 2021 (FEFF) sa Udine, Italy ang award-winning veteran actor.
Simula ngayong araw hanggang July 2 ipalalabas sa FEFF 2021 ang limang hindi malilimutang pelikula ni Manoy Eddie bilang pag-alala sa naging kontribusyon niya sa mundo ng pelikula.
Walong Pinoy movies, kabilang na nga ang limang classic films ng namayapang aktor ang napiling ipalabas sa Retrospective section ng FEFF na tinaguriang largest festival sa Europe “specializing in Asian Cinema and a contributor to the commercial distribution of Asian films across European and Italian markets.”
Mapapanood sa “Eddie Garcia: Life as a Film Epic” ang “Pagdating sa Dulo” ni Ishmael Bernal, “Bwakaw” ni Jun Robles Lana, “Rainbow’s Sunset” ni Joel Lamangan, “Anino” ni Raymond Red, at “Sinasamba Kita” na idinirek din ni Manoy.
Sa Competition section naman lalaban ang award-winning film na “Fan Girl” directed by Antoinette Jadaone, na magkakaroon ng international festival at online worldwide premiere while Joel Lamangan’s “Anak Ng Macho Dancer” will have its Italian and online worldwide premiere.
Ang “A is for Agustin,” naman na first feature-length documentary ni Grace Simbulan ay napili para sa Out of Competition section and will have its European and online worldwide premiere.
For this year’s FEFF’s Industry section, Martika Ramirez Escobar’s project “Bird Eyes” will participate in Focus Asia’s program while journalists Jason Tan Liwanag and Richard Olano will be part of the FEFF Campus training project.
“We are grateful to the Far East Film Festival in Udine for propagating Asian films in Europe and supporting Philippine Cinema once more by featuring a total of eight films, selecting a project and two journalists, and mounting a heartwarming tribute to our eternal icon Eddie Garcia to further his artistry and legacy,” pahayag ni Film Development Council of the Philippines Chairperson and CEO Liza Diño.
In 2018, FEFF selected the Philippines as its “Country of Focus” in celebration of the One Hundred Years of Philippine Cinema. Through the FDCP’s International Film Festival Assistance Program, the Agency provided support to the five selected Filipino films for their participation in FEFF 2019.
Two Filipino projects were selected for the FEFF Industry section when it moved into online platforms in 2020.
The 23rd FEFF, organized by Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche, will screen 63 titles from South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Macau, Myanmar, and the Philippines.
For more information on the participating films in the FEFF, visit https://www.mymovies.it/ondemand/23feff/.