John, Jake nominees in British Indie Film Awards

CONFIRMED: John Arcilla and Jake Macapagal are nominated in the prestigious British Independent Film Awards for Metro Manila which was directed by recent Manila visitor Sean Ellis who himself is nominated for Best Director. The movie, which  is also competing for the Best Films and Best Achievement in Production awards, is UK’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2014 Oscars.

Funfare’s Big Apple correspondent Edmund Silvestre said that the list of this year’s nominees was announced last Monday in  London by Ewan McGregor, a past winner.

“Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, John will slug it out with Jeff Goldblum for Le Week-end, Eddie Marsan for Filth, and Rupert Friend and Ben Mendelsohn, both for Starred Up,” reported Edmund who quoted John as saying, “I am so delighted. I could almost cry when I heard the news. Man, you just don’t know what a happy this feeling is.”

Jake is nominated for Most Promising Newcomer along with Harley Bird for How I Live Now, Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas for The Selfish Giant, Caity Lotz for The Machine and Chloe Pirrie for Shell.

According to Edmund, the drama Starred Up earned the most number of nominations with eight. It will compete for Best Film with (aside from Metro Manila) Philomena, The Selfish Giant and Le Week-end.

Ellis will compete for Best Director with Jon S. Baird for Filth, Clio Barnard for The Selfish Giant and Jonathan Glazer for Under the Skin.

The Pre-Selection Committee of 70 members viewed over 200 films, out of which they selected the nominations which were decided by ballot. The winners will be chosen by an independent jury comprised of leading professionals and talent from the British film industry.

The 16th awards ceremony will be held on Dec. 8 at Old Billingsgate in London, to be hosted for the eighth year by actor James Nesbitt (The Hobbit).

What a birthday gift for Karen Davila!

On Nov. 21 when she celebrates her birthday, Karen Davila will receive a gift she will treasure all her life — an award as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nations Service (TOWNS). She is the third from ABS-CBN to be so recognized in the field of Broadcast Journalism, after Sen. Loren Legarda in 1993 and Ces Oreña-Drilon in 2004.

The list of winners were announced last Tuesday at a presscon, also including Noraida Abdulla Karim (Social Work), Darlene Berberabe (Government Service), Ani Karina Brown (Sports), Rachelle Gerodies (Performing Arts), Gemma Narisma (Atmospheric Science), Eleanor Pinugu (Social Enterprise/Education), Ma. Amihan Ramolete (Theater Arts) and Maricor Soriano (Applied Physics). 

Two more Pinays vie

in int’l beauty tilts

Two more Pinay beauties are now in international pageants.

Annalie “Ali” Mallari Forbes, Bb. Pilipinas 2012 runner-up, is in Bangkok for the first-ever Miss Grand International Pageant (MGI) which will be held at 20,000-seater Beauty Thunder Dome (Muang Thong Thani Convention Center) on Nov. 19. She is among 80 candidates.

Rizalina Del Rosario Asa, a housewife and entrepreneur based in Portland, Oregon, USA, and a native of Hagonoy, Bulacan, is the official Philippine representative in the 2013 Mrs. World contest held in Guangzhou, China, Nov. 14 to 23. A mother of two and a grandmother of two, Riza was proclaimed Mrs. Portland Phil-Am 2010. She is married to Fred Asa, a businessman and President of Filipino-American Association of Portland, Oregon. Her eldest daughter, Maria Wilson, was used to be part of German Moreno’s show on GMA 7 until she got married to PBA player William Wilson of Barangay Ginebra.

Past Philippine bets to the contest were Melanie Marquez, Daisy Reyes, Joan Quintas, Maricel Morales and Rosita Capuyon Liwag. — Reported by Funfare’s ‘beauty experts’ Felix Manuel, Joey Cezeare, Gery Yumping and Francis Calubaquib

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