The first Philippine Film Festival in the UAE finally rolled out its red carpet on Friday afternoon with Filipino film luminaries attending the two-day event. Organised under the theme “Our Films, Our Culture”, the festival featured four award-winning Filipino movies screened in selected theatres in Dubai.
Philippine veteran actress Boots Anson Roa (seated second from left) and veteran director and actor Soxy Topacio (seated 4th from left) with Philippine Ambassador Grace Princesa (seated 3rd from left) organizers and sponsors of the 1st Philippine Film Festival in the UAE at the Marco Polo Hotel in Dubai United Arab Emirates on Friday November 25, 2011. Photo credit: Gulf News
“It took us about a year to make this event happen with a lot of planning and coordination. It took us very long to have a Filipino film festival here in the UAE for many reasons; the local sensitivities that we need to consider when showing our films here is one of the major factors, along with the huge cost of having such an event,” said Johann Obet Conti Ramos, managing partner of Kitsch Company, who also announced that they will be organising the festival annually.
The symposium included a screening of “Botelya”, which casts Anson-Roa with Anita Linda, Caridad Sanchez, Angel Aquino, Alessandra de Rossi, Katrina Halili, and Rosa Rosal. Botelya, a bronze winner at Cannes in 2009, spans three generations of mothers separated by divergent social conditions but united in their selfless and unconditional love to their children.
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