FILM SCREENING: RAP DOCUMENTARY

8:00pm, there will be a screening of rap artist/filmmaker Te Kupu’s (New Zealand/Aotearoa) rapumentary on marginalized indigenous peoples of the world.

NEW ZEALAND-TONDO RAP

Te Kupu will also jam with the Tondo boys of Jim Libiran’s film, “Tribu” (showing at the Cine Adarna theater, 7:00pm)

WORLD MUSIC AND RAP ARTISTS

Pinikpikan takes center stage and in the finale jams with Te Kupu and the Tondo boys.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT THE ISHMAEL BERNAL GALLERY, UP FILM INSTITUTE, UP DILIMAN, 8:00PM. 08 DEC 2007. 100P ENTRANCE. GET FREEBIES.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY CINE VERITAS 2007: HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL. ORGANIZED BY THE UP FILM INSTITUTE AND MICRODATA LCD PROJECTORS, with ESCR Asia, SULONG CARHRIHL, CONTEND UP, PHILIPPINE COALITION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, CSSP STUDENT PAVILIONS TEAM-UP DILIMAN, AND NEW ZEALAND EMBASSY.

UP Film Institute presents Cine Veritas 2007

UP Film Institute’s Cine Veritas Human Rights Film Festival for the year is all set from December 3 to 8. The Philippine gala premiere of Brillante Mendoza’s Tirador serves as opening salvo for the weeklong film festival that promises to be the biggest since it was first mounted in 2003.

Main films in exhibition come from across the globe led by the world premiere of Maori filmmaker Dean “Te Kupu” Hapeta’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2003 rapumentary series Ngatahi: Know the Links (which premiered at Sundance 2004); Mexico and Spain’s co-production Pan’s Labyrinth; Italian Embassy’s presentation Salvatore—That’s Life; the two-part program from Productions Multi-Monde of Canada comprised of Bledi, Sparks of War, Rebel Music Americas, Rebel Music Quebec; the Chinese documentary on an AIDS-afflicted family To Live Is Better Than to Die; the maquiladora murder drama Bordetown starring Jennifer Lopez and another Latin American cinema pride To Be Happy in Chile.

Filipino filmmakers take centerstage. Brillante Mendoza is represented not only by the opening film Tirador but also by the Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry Foster Child. Jim Libiran fields the Cinemalaya Best Picture Tribu that went on to vie for the top plum in Pusan and is also slated for Berlin International Forum of New Cinema come February 2008. Lino Tañada showcases the screen adaptation of the late author Orlando Nadres’ seminal play on repressed sexuality, Hanggang Dito Na Lamang at Maraming Salamat. Other Pinoy filmmakers with works in the festival selection include Vivian Limpin and Ma. Kathrina S. Loreños (Kunyang); She Andes and Mike Juancho Galang (Estropa) and Eric Tandoc (810logy).

Cine Veritas is UP Film Institute’s annual film festival that aims to uphold and raise consciousness on issues of human dignity and rights. In addition to screenings, a myriad of activities including fora, concerts, street dance parade, wall climbing and a string of gallery events highlight this year’s edition of the film festival.

The Cine Veritas 2007 official selection is as follows:

Dec 3 Mon

5 p.m. Know the Links (Ngatahi 1 & 2)

7 p.m. Philippine Gala Premiere: Tirador

8:30 p.m. Bernal Gallery Night of Songs, Poetry and Performance Art

Dec 4 Tue

2 p.m. Forum with Screenings Presented by Southern Tagalog Exposure and CONTEND-UP

4 p.m. Manila Pride Fest Screening of To Be Happy in Chile

5 p.m. CSSP Student Pavilions Team Program with Screening of Foster Child to be preceded by Kunyang (Maid)

6 p.m. LGBT Advocacy Night at the Bernal Gallery with Task Force Pride-Philippines Featuring UPFI Student Films plus More

7 p.m. Bordertown

Dec 5 Wed

2 p.m. Forum with Screenings Presented by PC-ICC

5 p.m. To Live Is Better Than to Die aka Better to Live On (Hao sib u ru lai huo zhe)

7 p.m. Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court Program with Screening of Pan’s Labyrinth

Dec 6 Thu

2 p.m. Forum with Screenings

5 p.m. Ngatahi 3

6:30 pm. Sulong CARHRIHL Program at the Bernal Gallery with Screening of Sugat ng Digmaan

7 p.m. Hanggang Dito Na Lamang at Maraming Salamat to be preceded by Manila Pride Fest Short Films

Dec 7 Fri

4:30 p.m. @ the Videotheque: Productions Multi-Monde Program I with Bledi; Sparks of War

5 p.m. onwards ESCR-Asia Program at the Bernal Gallery

7 p.m. @ the Videotheque: Italian Embassy Presentation of Salvatore—That’s Life

Dec 8 Sat

10 a.m. Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy Program

2 p.m. @ the Videotheque: Productions Multi-Monde Program II with Rebel Music Americas; Rebel Music Quebec

5 p.m. Ngatahi 4

7 p.m. LIRA Presentation of Jim Libiran’s Tribu to be preceded by Estropa/810logy

8:30 p.m. Hip-Hop World Concert at Bernal Gallery with visiting filmmaker Dean “Te Kupu” Hapeta and guest Pinoy musicians