5 Pinoy filmmakers join Berlinale Talent Campus

Five Filipino filmmakers joined this year's Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) Talent Campus out of thousands who applied from all over the world.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said producer Joenathann Alandy, director Paul Sta. Ana, producer Alemberg Ang, director Hannah Tabitha Espia and screenwriter Ian Dean Loreños were chosen to join the 11th Berlinale Talent Campus with the theme "Some Like it Hot - Filmmakers as Entertainer."

DFA said officers and staff of the Philippine Embassy hosted a welcome dinner for the Filipino filmmakers, who were chosen from 4,443 applicants in 137 countries.

"This year, a new initiative was included in the Berlinale Talent Campus program.  Selected participants had the opportunity to present their ideas, screenplays, films and projects in the Berlin House of Representatives and find partners and industry representatives from festival visitors. Filipino screenwriter Ian Loreños was chosen to present his project at the Berlin House of Representatives which is the venue for the Berlinale co-production market located across the European Film Market," DFA said.

Academy Award-winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch also discussed connecting sound and narrative in film, as the festival camp unveiled its New Sound Studio hands-on training program.

The Sound Studio is a collaboration with Dolby Labs, the Univbersity of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, the Fraunhofer/Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Berlin and the Berlin-based post-production company The Post Republic.

Dutch-American filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, New Zealand's Jane Campion, Great Britain's Ken Loach, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, leading German actress Nina Hoss and French distributor and producer Hengameh Panahi conducted lectures and shared their filmmaking experiences to the talent camp's participants.

The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival funded by the German government.