FILM SCREENING
The Editorial Office (Festival Opening)
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM | UPFI Film Center, UP Diliman, QC
(With UP Film Center)
True revolution begins in the imagination.
The Active Vista Human Rights Festival is an annual event that celebrates rights, freedoms, and dignity. It takes place every September to commemorate the Martial Law Anniversary in the Philippines. The festival provides creative avenues for the public to engage in critical discourse and conversations on various social issues and participate in initiatives supporting human rights and democracy.
AVHRF 2024
The 12th Active Vista Human Rights Festival: Espekulasyon
What if things were different?
The 12th edition of the Active Vista Human Rights Festival: ESPEKULASYON invites audiences to wander together into the world of possibilities–to imagine a future where gripping into hope does not bleed, and a better reality is within reach.
By spotlighting stories from the margins through nine satellite regional festivals, Active Vista takes its viewers to see the world not as it is, but as what it could be, opening conversations through films, humor, art, and performances, ushering them in a critical discourse through forums and talks that encourage in-depth reflection on a future beyond what is.
For in this world of uncertainties, where the future is bleak, to speculate is to resist.
AVHRF 2024 Calendar | September
SEP 19
SEP 20
FILM SCREENING
“11 Days in August” by Eva Mari G. Salvador
12:00 NN – 2:30 PM | 5F Duerr Hall Auditorium, Taft Campus, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde
(With Bantayog ng mga Bayani and Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design Benilde)
FILM SCREENING
“Alipato at Muog” by JL Burgos
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | UPFI Film Center, UP Diliman, QC
(With UP Film Center)
PERSPECTIVE
Cross-Culture Program: Synergy with “HOLY SHIT! Can poop save the world?” Screening
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Sine Pop, Quezon City
(With The Good Media Network and Änderwerk)
FESTIVAL EVENT
Delulu Night: Manifesting our Vision of a Better Nation
7:00 PM – 12:00 MN | 123 Block, Mandala Park, Mandaluyong City
(With Funkybeat Entertainment and 123 Block)
SEP 21
FILM SCREENING
FILM SCREENING
“11,103” by Jeanette Ifurung & Miguel Alcazaren
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | UPFI Film Center, UP Diliman, QC
(With UP Film Center)
FILM SCREENING
“WIP: Wiretapping My Grandparents” by Juliàn Hernandez
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Sine Pop, QC (By invitation only)
PERSPECTIVE
Storytelling for Social Impact: Creating Art that Matters
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Sine Pop, Quezon City
SEP 22
PERSPECTIVE
PLOT TWIST! Creative Commune
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Sine Pop, Quezon City
(With Philippine Educational Theatre Association and Asia Democracy Network)
FILM SCREENING
“Tumandok” by Richard Jeroui Salvadico and Arlie Sweet Sumagaysay
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Sine Pop, QC
SEP 23
SEP 24
SEP 25
FILM SCREENING
“11,103” by Jeanette Ifurung & Miguel Alcazaren
3:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Philippine Science High School Auditorium
(With Philippine Science High School)
SEP 26
FILM SCREENING
“On the Job 2: The Missing 8” by Erik Matti
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Sine Pop, QC
(By invitation only)
SEP 27
FILM SCREENING
“11,103” by Jeanette Ifurung & Miguel Alcazaren
12:00 NN – 2:30 PM | 5F Duerr Hall Auditorium, Taft Campus, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde
(With College of St. Benilde)
FILM SCREENING
“11,103” by Jeanette Ifurung & Miguel Alcazaren
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Ateneo de Manila University SHS
FILM SCREENING
Forefront: Armando “Bing” Lao with Kinatay and Dukit screening
4:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Sine Pop, QC
SEP 28
FESTIVAL EVENT
FESTIVAL EVENT
PAK DEM! Political Cartooning for Democracy and Human Rights Live Cartooning
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | COMUNA, Makati City
(With Cartooning for Peace, French Embassy)
FESTIVAL EVENT
PAK DEM! Political Cartooning for Democracy and Human Rights Exhibit
September 28 – October 5, 2024 | COMUNA, Makati City
(With Cartooning for Peace, French Embassy, and Comuna)
FESTIVAL FORUM
Is it Giving Magiting?: A Forum on Critical Thinking with Ang Duyan ng Magiting Screening
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Gateway Cineplex, Quezon City
SEP 29
FILM SCREENING
Delikado (Community Screening)
Baseco, Tondo, Manila (With i_space and Youth for Better Baseco)
FILM SCREENING
FESTIVAL FORUM
PAK DEM! Political Cartooning for Democracy and Human Rights Roundtable Discussion
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Rappler Studio
(With Cartooning for Peace, French Embassy, and Rappler)
SEP 30
AVHRF 2024 Calendar | October
OCT 1
FILM SCREENING
“11,103” by Jeanette Ifurung & Miguel Alcazaren
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Lyceum of the Philippines University – Manila
(With Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission and Lyceum of the Philippines University)
OCT 2
FILM SCREENING
Spotlight: Southeast Asian Short Films
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | UPFI Videotheque
(With Initiatives for International Dialogue)
OCT 3
FILM SCREENING
PERSPECTIVE
Climate Story Lab
Oct 3-4, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Sine Pop, Quezon City
(With Picture People, British Council, iMedia, Rockefeller Foundation)
OCT 4
PERSPECTIVE
Climate Story Lab
Oct 3-4, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Sine Pop, Quezon City
(With Picture People, British Council, iMedia, Rockefeller Foundation)
FILM SCREENING
FESTIVAL EVENT
GATILYO: Tatlong Dula ng Pag-alala Staged Readings
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Harong, PRRM Building, 56 Mother Ignacia Ave, Quezon City
(With The Virgin Labfest, Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Writer’s Bloc, Tanghalang Pilipino, COMMUNE, Human Rights and People Empowerment Center, and RESBAK)
OCT 5
Plot Twist: Seen presents “Mga Kuwentong Pauwi Na Sana”
4:00 PM | Commune Café, Poblacion, Makati
FESTIVAL FORUM
Breaking The Cycle Screening + Electoral Forum
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Gateway Cineplex, Quezon City
(With PAHRA)
OCT 6
PERSPECTIVE
Climate Story Lab Pitching
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Sine Pop, Quezon City
(With Picture People, British Council, iMedia, Rockefeller Foundation)
AVFEST 2024 Official Festival Guide
This year, the festival invites its audience to reflect on a future beyond the present by opening discussions through humor, art, and performances—spotlighting regional stories, conducting educational forums, and screening films that encourage viewers to see the world not only as it is but as it could be, as it should be.
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