Overlooked Films, Underrated Directors

MANILA, Philippines - Another season of the Overlooked Films, Underrated Directors series will be shown once a month from April to August at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Manuel Conde (CCP Dream Theater). The film showings are presented by the CCP in cooperation with the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA) in the effort to assess certain films and filmmakers by taking a second look at their unjustly neglected bodies of work.

The film series, which will be held every second Saturday of the month, unless otherwise indicated, will begin with a Tribute to Hammy Sotto, SOFIA’s founding president tomorrow, April 16. April is Sotto’s birth and death anniversary month. The tribute will feature Sotto’s documentary on Philippine Cinema.

Screening schedule of the series proper is on May 14, Return of the Dragon by Celso Ad. Castillo; June 11, Taong Paniki by Richard Abelardo; July 15 to 24, Tribute to Ronwaldo Reyes (Retrospective Section of Cinemalaya 2011); and Aug. 13, Pusaka Pontiana by Ramon Estella. The film showings are at 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For details, call CCP Media Arts Division at 832-1125 locals 1702 and 1705.