Anima’s ‘Leonor Will Never Die’ + 2022 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award + BISAYAFILMS/
I. Questions I Want To Ask The Makers of Leonor Will Never Die and The Rest of The Films in Sundance Film Festival 2022
Where I can stream the film, and is there a blogger/reviewer's copy?
Okay, so I have an idea, so what if like the homeless/houseless/people eating "Fried Chicken In Garbage Cans" in the Philippines, what if like there's a category in Sundance where somebody like an experimental filmmaker in the likes of Lav Diaz would take photos of them with permission of them of course and then for like a David Foster Wallace kind of approach, add some sort of a quote that tries to like inspire people to sacrifice the P50,000 travels they have to exotic places, especially Christians who claim they're Christians, - and then these photos will be shown in the Festival as an NFT, and we don't announce it publicly but we just give the proceeds of the sale to the people in the photos, the houseless chicken-in-garbage-can-eating people living in the side streets, would that be an idea worth investing by the likes of the Warren Buffets of Cinema?
Do I have to edit what I wrote above?
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II. PRESS RELEASE: Anima’s ‘Leonor Will Never Die’
Anima’s feature film “Leonor Will Never Die” recently won an award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, receiving an accolade following its rebirth in December under Kroma Entertainment.
The feature film, homage to ‘80s Pinoy action movies, was awarded the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Innovative Spirit at the prestigious independent film event.
“Switching in-between genres, this film within a film follows an ailing screenwriter who enters her unfinished screenplay of a gangster film to experience and edit her own creation. Constantly shifting in tone, the film is a playful display of the love of cinema. Its innovative and risk-taking spirit is especially commendable,” the Sundance jury said in its citation.
“Leonor Will Never Die” marked the directorial debut of Martika Ramirez Escobar, who also wrote the film.
“Films can speak and films can be heard, and today I’m glad that our film is felt by the jury. Thank you so much Sundance; our spirits are smiling,” said Escobar.
Veteran stage actress Sheila Francisco stars in the title role, with Rocky Salumbides as the action star. The movie was co-produced by Monster Jimenez and his partner Mario Cornejo under the banner of their company Arkeofilms.
Film review of the movie is here: https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/leonor-will-never-die-review-1235154354/
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III. BISAYA FILMS + /
