FILM SCREENING
Frames: Filipino Shorts
This year’s FRAMES short film competition is focused on discovering and supporting young filmmakers from the Philippines who are deeply committed to human rights.
Tuhog (Larger Than Life)
by Jeffrey Jeturian
Drama | 105 min | 2001| Philippines
Language: Filipino
Subtitles: English
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ABOUT THE FILM
SYNOPSIS
After being raped at the hands of her grandfather, young Floring agrees to let a film company turn her story into a tasteful movie. But when she and her mother view the finished product, they find that the director has violated Floring again – by transforming her tale into soft-core pornography.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
- Best Film of the Decade (Natatanging Pelikula ng Dekada) Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2011
- Best Film Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2001
- Best Direction Nominee, Gawad Urian Awards 2001
- Best Screenplay Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2001 (Armando Lao)
- Best Cinematography Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2001
- Best Music Winner, Gawad Urian Awards 2001
- Movie of the Year, Star Awards for Movies 2002
- Cinema of the Present - Lion of the Year Nominee, Venice Film Festival 2001
- Cinemanila International Film Festival 2003
- Singapore International Film Festival 2002
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Jeffrey Jeturian, a communication arts product of the University of the Philippines, started as a production assistant for Marilou Diaz Abaya’s Alyas Baby Tsina (1984). His film career includes script supervisor, production designer, television director and as film director. His first two films, Sana pag-ibig na (1998) (Enter Love) and _Pila-balde (2000)_ (Fetch a Pail of Water) are both critically acclaimed. Pila-balde bagged a round of overseas honors – Gold Prize, 2000 Houston-Worldfest (Texas, USA) International Film Festival; NETPAC Jury Prize, 1999 Cinemanila International Film Festival; exhibition in Lincoln Center in the United States as well as in other countries such as Sweden, Germany, France, Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombia, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Italy. Variety, the United States’ entertainment bible, carried in its recent issue a feature on Jeffrey. His third film, Larger Than Life (2001), is also award-winning.
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