Problems in Cinema Rehiyon Solved Here in Bisaya Short FIlms
Problem:
A screening of the 7th CinemaRehiyon Film Festival was in a Collonade Moviehouse, a theater my friend said was a place where you can get stabbed and where men sit beside you and tell you "you're cute". The film festival was filled with films with stamps of independent greatness whose movie posters are splattered with those Laurel leaves that are proof of supposed brilliance.
However, only ten people attend the screenings. How can we get people to watch more CinemaRehiyon movies and get them to support the movement so we can create local noise enough to call the attention of Martin Scorsese, Roy Andersson (still alive?), and P.T. Anderson and Louis CK and Tina Fey and bring them here in Cebu to work on their art?
How can we bring them to El Nido or just Sumilon Sand Bar and get them to make a Bisaya Short Film about how they can help Jessica Zafra and Jerrold Tarog create a film that's going to put Fifty Shades of Grey to shame, and will generate as much success as that Remington Zombie Movie?
1. Get more students outside University of San Carlos and UP and STC - Yes, there were screenings in different major universities. But this isn't enough. We could've gone to UC, UV, CIT and SWU and get English Subject teachers to haul their students to the screenings with the threat of Demerits If They Don't Attend.
Contact the school's Student Councils' Presidents. Access the Faculty Groups. Tap the High School Nerd Clubs, the elite, the smarts, those who listen to Radiohead and watch Lav Diaz movies in the loop in between grade school classes.
Ask them to write about the movies Reflection Paper style, but this time let them read first about the unpretentious writing styles of J.D. Salinger so they can put their thoughts into paper without making readers puke.
2. Involve the bloggers - Call Cebu Blogging Community Heads and get their power to write more about the event during the event. Get them to go to their Facebook Friends list and ask each Facebook friend that Cebu Film Scene burns if they shun CinemaRehiyon. Tell them to act desperate and needy and helpless. If it worked for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, damn sure it's gonna work for them.
3. Contact Bisaya Short Films. We have more solutions gathered from reading too much Albert Camus, David Foster Wallace, BrainPickings articles, Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain and Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
