NYFA puts the spotlight on Direk Eileen Cabiling in The 20/20 series
Basurero will be screening at the Anatolian Short Film Festival 2021 on February 3
Basurero’s next stop is in Istanbul, Turkey, for the Anatolian Short Film Festival 2021.
The Anatolian Short Film Festival is an online-monthly international short film festival. The mission of the festival is to offer international short film directors the chance to showcase their films. It also aims to create a short film viewing platform, and this year, it is held via online screenings.
We are thrilled to be part of this eclectic festival featuring shorts showcased from all over the world. The screening will be held all day on February 3rd– free and available online.
Basurero is part of Cinema Sala Cares’ Typhoon Relief Screening & Fundraiser
Cinema Sala Shorts are back, and we are happy that Basurero will be screening alongside four other amazing short films from the Philippines. This amazing short film block is curated by Marie Jamora for our Typhoon Relief Fundraiser, in partnership with World Vision Philippines this month. It aims to assist the people deeply affected by the destructive typhoons that have hit our homeland in recent times.
Darlene Catly Malimas, one of our Producers, and Direk Eileen Cabiling will be present for a Q&A with the other filmmakers during the event.
“MEMORIES OF THE ISLANDS”
featuring:
Joanne Vasquez Arong’s “To Calm The Pig Inside”
Eileen Cabiling and Darlene Malimas’ “Basurero”
Janus Victoria’s “Viva Viva Escolta”
Dean Colin Marcial’s “Reminiscences of the Green Revolution”
Martika Ramirez Escobar’s “Don’t worry, we still hear you.”
SCREENING + FILMMAKER Q&A
February 6 (Saturday)
5 pm PST / 8 pm EST
9 am Manila (February 7)
ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TO WORLD VISION PHILIPPINES’ TYPHOON RELIEF EFFORTS.
Fundraiser link
Cinema Sala Shorts Facebook event page
***The films will be available for two weeks after the event so we can continue fundraising.
Basurero is part of the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2021
BASURERO’s epic journey prevails as it continues to screen to audiences around the world. Next stop IRELAND at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival Screening March 3-14, 2021.
Honored to be an Official Selection at this prolific event — Ireland’s most popular film festival and one of the top ten film festivals in Europe. More details here: https://watch.diff.ie/films/5ff5956a55e1e5006a66254
The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival is Ireland’s premier film festival event. Curating and presenting the best in emerging international and Irish film and moving image culture for a wide audience through its flagship annual festival, along with a range of year-round events. Virgin Media DIFF aims to offer memorable experiences through audience interaction and engagement with filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals, along with an informed debate about the future of film as an art form.
They’ve rolled out the red carpet for stars including Al Pacino, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Farrell, Tilda Swinton, Gabriel Byrne, Charlize Theron, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Glenn Close, and welcomed a host of leading industry professionals, from iconic filmmakers like Jim Sheridan, Mike Leigh, Paolo Sorrentino, and Wim Wenders, to screenwriters like Peter Morgan and Laurence Coriat, and composers Alex Somers, David Shire and Jocelyn Pook.
The Festival has long been committed to supporting new talent, both through competitions and awards like the Documentary Competition and the Discovery Award and through workshops and masterclasses on everything from casting to composing.
Basurero was an Official Selection at the Festival Internacional Signes da Noite
Basurero was screened in Lisbon, Portugal during the holiday season as an Official Selection at The 18° Festival Internacional Signes da Noite, from December 27-31, 2020. It was made available online.
Since 2003, the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT has been active in Paris and across the globe. In recent years, the Festival was able to present about a thousand films from around 70 countries in the principal yearly festivals, as well as with about 140 programs conducted in collaboration with cultural institutions and festivals in up to 38 countries, which includes Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Peru, Russia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United States.
The Festival presents films that reflect new views, original imagery, and a critical approach to the crucial elements of modern and actual human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself over to unpredictable experimentation.
The festival has been transformed into a multinational one, with competition and focus programs in Berlin, Lisbon, Bangkok, Tucuman (Argentina), and Urbino (Italy).
Basurero Wins Best International Short Film at the FICSLP 2020
Basurero bags the Best International Short Film Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Luis Potosi.
This was announced by Alex Kahuam, one of the members of the jury on December 10, 2020.
The FICSLP is a festival that promotes, supports, and assists in improving the talents of local, national, and international creators, through the exhibitions, projections, cine clubs, festivals, contests, competitions of the festival. It aims to sustain the growing community of captive creators and spectators, under a dynamic exhibition forum, offering to screen and compete, as well as promote the development of short, medium-length, and feature-length productions.
Direk Eileen is part of the New York Film Academy’s 20/20 Series
Breaking news!
Direk Eileen Cabiling will be discussing filmmaking and the creative process with New York Film Academy’s Creative Director Liz Hinlein — this Wednesday at 12 PM PST/3 PM ET with NYFA! Hope you can join us!
The 20/20 Series is a pop-up event that takes us into the homes, hubs, and workspaces of an array of dynamic creative visionaries to allow for relaxed, engaging conversations on craft, creation, and artistic vision.
Each conversation with a creative visionary features 20 minutes of discussion with a moderator and a 20 Q&A from YOU, the audience.
This event is open to the public, as a means of promoting global connection and creativity, a key mission of NYFA.
CLICK HERE to REGISTER
Basurero was selected for the 5th Madrid Film & Human Rights Festival
Basurero is proud to have been part of the 5th Madrid Film & Human Rights Festival, held December 4-13, 2020. It was held online this year, due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
With a program of more than 60 films in competition, this 5th edition consists of a Consolidated Jury, the Madrid Film and Human Rights Festival is proposed as a platform to disseminate Human Rights and the Culture of Peace, through cinematographic works, that inspire debate and reflection, that provide tools to observe, analyze and understand complex realities.
The objectives of the Festival are to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a declaration proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris on December 10, 1948, in its Resolution 217 A (III):
“Considering also essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims this UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common ideal for which all peoples and nations should strive, so that both individuals and institutions, Taking constant inspiration from it, promote, through teaching and education, respect for these rights and freedoms, and ensure, through progressive national and international measures, their universal and effective recognition and application, both among the peoples of the Member States. as among those of the territories placed under its jurisdiction. “
Watch Direk Eileen Cabiling’s welcome message here.
View the festival website & trailer here.
Basurero is featured in Marrano de Marrano
” ‘Trash’ is honest and direct work that, without any moralizing tint, nor narrative exaggerations seeks to lead the viewer to find the different realities that lie at the heart of a city that is kind and broad for the tourist but full of inequalities and injustices to their poorest, in an environment where survival is highest above any other human feeling.”
— Marrano de Marrano
Basurero is featured in Marrano de Marrano, a Columbian movie blog, and is showcased as one of the films to be screened digitally in the upcoming Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2020. The festival will be open on November 1 and will be screening until November 8, 2020.
The review was appreciative of the film’s take on the Philippine drug war without resorting to any moral dichotomization and pretensions in its account.
Read the full review here.
Yong Chavez interviews Direk Eileen Cabiling for ABS-CBN Hollywood
Yong Chavez interviewed Direk Eileen Cabiling with ABS-CBN Hollywood.
Basurero is currently streaming in California (online) at the San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) and the Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF).
Watch the full interview here.
You can also catch it as part of the Cinemalaya Showcase on iWANT-TFC online and at the SDAFF 2020 and LAPFF 2020.