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Camden International Film Festival 2019: CIFF Announces Film Slate and Storyforms Immersive Lineup for 15th Edition

CIFF celebrates its 15th Edition with an international showcase of films that interrogate Story & Power.

Showtime Documentary Films is the 2019 Headlining Sponsor

CAMDEN, Maine, August 19, 2019 – The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the slate of feature and short films for its 15th edition, which will take place September 12-15, 2019 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine.

A program of the Points North Institute, CIFF is one of the top documentary film festivals in the world. This year the festival will present 38 features, 51 short films, and 17 virtual reality and immersive experiences from over 35 countries. More than half of the feature films are presented as major premieres, including the US Premiere of Alex Gibney’s Citizen K.

The festival’s 2019 edition aims to advance industry-wide conversations aboutStory & Power -- examining the ways in which power structures deeply embedded in society have continued to shape the documentary field, including which stories are told, by whom and for whom.

“Our 2019 slate celebrates documentary as a reimagining of the ways we engagewith stories from both near and far,” says Ben Fowlie, Executive and Artistic Director of the Points North Institute, and Founder of the Camden International Film Festival. “As programmers, we have been transformed by these films. They take us beyond the headlines and into the hearts of people and their stories, while also engaging us with the creative, political, and ethical decisions that went into these unforgettable films.”

CIFF will present eight World Premieres by award-winning filmmakers, including

BAFTA winner Dan Vernon’s Changin’ Times of Ike White, Martha Shane’s

Narrowsburg, Vytautas Puidokas’s El Padre Médico, and Michel Negroponte’s

My Autonomous Neighbor, all films that set out to tell a story one way, only to

uncover countless unexpected turns.

“We’ve been thinking a lot about how power is inherently embedded in the way

films are made, in the stories we uphold about ourselves, our values, our places,”

says Senior Programmer Samara Chadwick. “As a way of normalising the

questioning of that power, we have curated constellations of works within the

program that, together, offer varying approaches to common narratives.” For

example, a trilogy of Filipino films present very different angles on the interwoven

histories of the US and the Philippines.

The

world premiere of Alexander A.

Mora’s The Nightcrawlers offers a harrowing undercover look into the Duterte

regime’s brutal war on drugs. Sung-A Yoon’s Overseas, a study of filipina

domestic workers training to work abroad.

The conflict in Syria will be represented in a kaleidoscope of films, including the

US Premiere of Feras Fayyad’s The Cave about a women-led underground

hospital, Locarno title Copper Notes of a Dream in which director Reza

Farahmand explores the indomitable spirits of children staging a concert in the

rubble, and Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’s multiple award winning film,

For Sama, documenting a journalist mother’s love letter to her war-born

daughter.

As a leading showcase of international works, CIFF welcomes the North

American premieres of nine films, including the works of several emerging

filmmakers, such as The Giverny Document (Single Channel) by Ja'Tovia

Gary, Lovemobil by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, Progress In The Valley of

the People Who Don’t Know by Florian Kunert, Sankara is not Dead by Lucie

Viver, and La Vida en Común by Ezequiel Yanco.

The festival will present new work by documentary luminaries including Agnès Varda, Brett Story, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Nanfu Wang, Steve Bognar, Julia Reichart, Juan Pablo González, and Ian Cheney. Each of these films,

frica, and Syria, as well

being told. Nearly all screenings will be attended by the filmmakers, with creators

in their

own way, finds creative ways of asserting the filmmakers’ role within the story

from Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Korea,

Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, South A as creators from over over a dozen indigenous tribes, all converging on the coast of Maine.

The Festival will also feature two award-winning alumni of the Points North Fellowship program: Midnight Family and Midnight Traveler. The filmmakersselected for this year’s Points North Institute’s Artist Programs at CIFF will be announced in the coming weeks.

A complete list of the program’s selected feature films can be found below.

“For the 4th edition of our Storyforms exhibition, we’re showcasing how immersive media can create new spaces for reflection and interrogation of the invisible forces that shape our world,” said Program Director Sean Flynn. Highlighted works include the World Premiere of Alex Suber’s virtual reality documentary, Lux Sine, Lisa Jackson’s Biidaaban: First Light, Common Ground by Darren Emerson and Home with América by Alvaro Morales.

The Points North Institute announced that SHOWTIME® Documentary Films will serve as the Presenting Sponsor for the 2019 Points North Fellowship and a Headlining Sponsor for the 2019 Camden International Film Festival.

The Points North Forum’s lineup of masterclasses, roundtables, panels, andindustry delegates will be announced in the coming week. The Forum’s centerpiece this year is the Agora: a daylong series of conversations and panels that explore how each facet of the nonfiction community - from filmmakers, to critics, to gatekeepers and even audiences - can take an active role in building and enjoying a more equitable, inclusive field that celebrates the art and craft of documentary filmmaking. The full Forum announcement and schedule will be released in the coming weeks.

Festival passes and a complete festival lineup can be found on the Points North Institute website www.pointsnorthinstitute.org

The 15th Camden International Film Festival is a program of the Points North Institute. Building on CIFF’s long-established role in the nonfiction film community, the Points North Institute’s filmmaker programs provide a launching pad for the next generation of nonfiction storytellers.

The complete program and asset links follow.

Storyforms: Remixing Reality is CIFF’s growing exhibition of immersive

documentary experiences and installations. This year the program will feature

four room-scale VR and AR installations, nine works of 360° cinema, and a

series of large-scale projections that explicitly interrogate representations of race

in America, including Garrett Bradley’s award-winning America and Whitney

Dow’s The Whiteness Project.

2019 Camden International Film Festival Features AFTER PARKLAND

Emily Taguchi | USA | 2019

In the immediate aftermath of the devastating 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, filmmakers embedded with students and parents whose lives were forever changed—from quiet hours of grief and reflection to those of political awakening.

ALAN MAGEE: ART IS NOT A SOLACE

David Wright, David Berez | USA, Germany | 2019

This film explores the ways in which art can address the greatest challenges that we face as a society—social injustice and the urgency of speaking truth to power.World Premiere

AMERICAN FACTORY

Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | USA | 2019

A deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

BY THE NAME OF TANIA

Mary Jiménez, Bénédicte Liénard | Belgium, Peru | 2019

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up forced into prostitution. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to that which has been formally rendered nameless. North American Premiere

CABALLERANGO

Juan Pablo González | Mexico | 2018

Members of a Mexican village slowly losing its old-fashioned lifestyle recall a young man's death as the camera observes the setting.

CELEBRATION

Olivier Meyrou | France | 2018

Olivier Myron’s “Celebration” offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look of Yves SaintLaurent’s last few years of genius at the helm of his self-made fashion behemoth, before his exit from the house in 2002.

CHANGIN’ TIMES OF IKE WHITE

Dan Vernon | UK, USA | 2019

Released in 1974, Ike White’s Changin’ Times was an extraordinary albumrecorded in extraordinary circumstances. The film charts Ike’s journey from prison to his life as a free man, and a subsequent reinvention of himself as a performer for hire called David Maestro. World Premiere

CHÈCHE LAVI

Sam Ellison | USA, Mexico | 2019

Two young Haitians find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border, searching for a way forward with no one to depend on but each other.

CIRCUS OF BOOKS

Rachel Mason | USA | 2019

How do you explain to your friends that your mom and pop run a gay pornography shop? That is just one question asked in this playful documentary about the titular LA store and its unlikely proprietors.

CITIZEN K

Alex Gibney | USA, Russia | 2019

This latest film from Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney considers the strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement. US Premiere

EL PADRE MÉDICO

Vytautas Puidokas | Lithuania, Brazil | 2019

A Lithuanian doctor, priest and a war refugee resettles to Amazonian jungle in1960’s and becomes a local hero. Yet, as he gets involved in a brutal crime,countless fake narratives that he had created around himself begin to resurface.World Premiere

ERDE (EARTH)

Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria | 2019

Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans – with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people, in mines, quarries and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet. North American Premiere

FOR SAMA

Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts | UK, Syria | 2019

An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

FORTSCHRITT IM TAL DER AHNUNGSLOSEN (PROGRESS IN THE VALLEY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW)

Florian Kunert | Germany | 2019

Memories of the relations between the GDR and Syria return in the ruins of the former GDR-factory “Fortschritt" (Progress), when former workers and Syrianrefugees meet. North American Premiere

KIFARU

David Hambridge | USA, Hong Kong, Kenya | 2019

A feature documentary that journeys beyond the global headlines that have accumulated around 'Sudan,' the last male northern white rhino in existence, and explores the painful emptiness of extinction through the eyes of Sudan's three primary caregivers.

LA VIDA EN COMÚN

Ezequiel Yanco | Argentina, France | 2019

A puma stalks Pueblo Nación Ranquel. Hunting is a rite of passage, and the older boys want to kill it. But Uriel decides to take another path. US Premiere

LOVEMOBIL

Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss | Germany | 2019

Along the dark country roads of rural Germany, prostitutes from foreign countries work in old caravans. ln this uncanny world, the murder of one of the women takes place. North American Premiere

MIDNIGHT FAMILY

Luke Lorentzen | USA, Mexico | 2019

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.

MIDNIGHT TRAVELER

Hassan Fazili | USA, UK, Canada, Qatar | 2019

When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he isforced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing thefamily’s uncertain journey firsthand, Fazili documents their harrowing trek acrossnumerous borders revealing the danger and uncertainty facing refugees seeking asylum juxtaposed with the unbreakable love shared amongst the family on the run.

MY AUTONOMOUS NEIGHBOR

Michel Negroponte | USA | 2019

Fred "Tate " Billings is an outsider artist, post-psychedelic philosopher and compulsive knick-knack collector who spends his waking hours creating playful work about hidden dimensions and galactic time travel to excavate personal and historical mysteries. World Premiere

NARROWSBURG

Martha Shane | USA, UK | 2019

NARROWSBURG follows a French film producer and a mafioso-turned-actor as they turn a tiny town upside down, peddling Hollywood dreams and persuading the town it can become the “Sundance of the East.” World Premiere

NOTHA-YE- MESI YEK ROYA (COPPER NOTES OF A DREAM)

Reza Farahmand | Canada, Iran | 2019

Childhood and happiness are great and sacred concepts. Even war, cannot destroy these profound and holy words. North American Premiere

ONE CHILD NATION

Nanfu Wang | China | 2019

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one- child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

OVERSEAS

Sung-A Yoon | Belgium, France | 2019

In a learning center dedicated to the domestic work in The Philippines, several candidates prepare themselves for homesickness and for the abuses that they will possibly endure. North American Premiere

READY FOR WAR

Andrew Renzi | USA, Mexico | 2019

Andrew Renzi’s heartfelt and hard-hitting documentary sheds light on the lives of three of the estimated thousands of immigrants who volunteer for service in the American military, yet find themselves deported from the US once their tours of duty are over. US Premiere

SANKARA IS NOT DEAD

Lucie Viver | France | 2019

After Burkina Faso’s 2014 popular uprising, the young poet Bikontine decides to go meet his fellow citizens along the country’s only rail line. North American Premiere

SCATTERING C.J.

Andrea Kalin | USA, Kenya, Australia, Honduras, Brazil, Egypt, Israel, UK, New Zealand, Philippines, France, Holland, India, Nepal | 2019

When a heartbroken mom asked the world to help honor the memory of her beloved son, the loss of one became the journey of many. World Premiere

THE CAVE

Feras Fayyad | Syria | 2019

Director Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his native, wartorn Syria to follow a dedicated team of female doctors tirelessly treating casualties in an underground hospital, while battling systemic sexism. US Premiere

THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)

Ja'Tovia Gary | USA, France | 2019

Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens inGiverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. North American Premiere

THE HOTTEST AUGUST

Brett Story | USA, Canada | 2019

Ordinary people in New York are asked to talk about their lives and their hopes for the future in a time marked by political division and climate change.

THE KINGMAKER

Lauren Greenfield | USA, Philippines | 2019

Acclaimed documentarian Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles) aims her lens at Filipino politician and former First Lady Imelda Marcos. US Premiere

THE NIGHTCRAWLERS

Alexander A. Mora | USA, Philippines | 2019 World Premiere

THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN

Sara Dosa | USA, Iceland | 2019

A magic realist documentary about invisible elves, financial collapse, and the surprising power of belief told through the personal story of an Icelandic grandmother who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.

THIRTEEN WAYS

Ian Cheney | USA | 2019

In midcoast Maine, a series of scientists, artists, hunters, paragliders, and naturalists reveal the wonders of a small plot of land they have never seen before. World Premiere

VARDA BY AGNÈS

Agnès Varda | France | 2019

Agnès Varda’s new documentary sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing”.

WATSON

Lesley Chilcott | USA | 2019

Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watsonhas spent 40 years fighting to end the destruction of the ocean’s wildlife and its habitat. Part pirate, part philosopher, Watson’s methods stop at nothing to protectwhat lies beneath.

WHERE MAN RETURNS

Egil Håskjold Larsen | Norway | 2019

A man, a dog, a cabin near the sea. Steinar, age 75, has chosen to live a life in communion with nature.

He lives in an isolated, frozen universe at the outermost point of Europe, barely one kilometer from the Norwegian-Russian border. North American Premiere

2019 Storyforms Slate

America

Garrett Bradley | United States | 29 mins

Rooted in New Orleans, AMERICA is a modern day silent film, challenging the idea of Black cinema as a “wave,” or “movement in time,” proposing instead acontinuous thread of achievement.

The Atomic Tree

Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee | United States | 10 mins

The Atomic Tree is a virtual reality journey into the memories of one of the most revered trees in the world—a 400-year-old Japanese White Pine bonsai that survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima.

Biidaaban: First Light

Lisa Jackson | Canada | 8 mins

An interactive VR project that illuminates how Indigenous languages can help usunderstand our place in a reconciled version of Canada’s largest urbanenvironment

Common Ground

Darren Emerson | United Kingdom | 30 mins

Welcome to the Aylesbury Estate, home to thousands of Londoners, a concrete monument to the history and legacy of social housing in the UK, and a stark insight into the realities of gentrification and social cleansing.

Floodplain

Deniz Tortum | USA, Turkey | 13 mins

A mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization slowly unravels, quiet new dynamics emerge.

Home with América

Alvaro Morales | USA, Peru | 13 mins

Gladys, an undocumented immigrant, cannot visit her dying mother, América. Defying this separation, Gladys finds a way, however ephemeral, to reunite with her mother.

Le Lac

Nyasha Kadandara | Kenya | 10 mins

The oasis of the Sahel, Lake Chad, is not who she used to be. Ninety percent of her water is gone, leaving her feeling depleted, wary, scared and insecure.

Lux Sine

Alex Suber | USA | 15 mins

Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the experience takes participants into the subterranean depths of Wind Cave and Sanford Research Lab as they unravel the cosmos from different angles. World Premiere

Stealing Ur Feelings

Noah Levenson | USA | 6 mins

Stealing Ur Feelings is an AI-powered augmented reality experience that learns your deepest secrets just by analyzing your face.

The Dynamic Range

James N. Kienitz Wilkins | USA | 22 mins

A speculative essay film, presented in a Virtual Reality version, that explores the limits of perception through advances in camera technology, and the accompanying human presumptions which fuel such advancements.

Whiteness Project - Intersection of I

Whitney Dow | Canada | 35 mins

Whiteness Project is multi-platform media project that examines both the conceptof whiteness and how those who identify as “white” or partially whiteprocess theirracial identity.

Traveling While Black

Roger Ross Williams, Ayesha Nadarajah (co-director) | USA | 7 mins Confronting the way we understand and talk about race in America, this virtual reality documentary immerses the viewer in the long history of restriction of movement for black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in our communities.

Accused #2: Walter Sisulu

Gilles Porte, Nicolas Champeaux | USA | 10 mins

Transported back into a world of secret court sessions during the apartheid nightmare, discover the testimony of an exceptional man who instigated one of the turning points of 20th century history.

Dreams of the Jaguar's Daughter

Alfredo Salazar-Caro | USA, India | 8 mins

A three-part Experimental VR Documentary where Achik', the spirit of young Mayan immigrant, guides the viewer's through her dreams and memories of the journey north.

Anthropocene: Carrara

Jennifer Baichwal | France | 8 mins

Follow blocks of prized Carrara marble as they are hewn from pristine peaks in Tuscany and travel down the mountainside to artisans' studios and out into the global export economy.

Anthropocene: Dandora

Jennifer Baichwal | France | 6 mins

The hills and canyons of a massive Kenyan landfill represent an emerging microeconomy where the discarded plastic is both a commodity and a future geological marker of humanity's time on Earth.

Anthropocene: Ivory Burn

Jennifer Baichwal | France | 6 mins

Witness the largest ivory burn in history, when over a hundred tons of confiscated elephant tusks and rhino horns were torched in Nairobi National Park to send a deeply symbolic and visceral message to poachers and illegal trade syndicates.

Please send all press inquiries to:

Audrey Ewell, audrey@evilsummerpr.com

Online Screeners for some of the films, pre-festival interviews with CIFF’sprogrammers, and interviews with key filmmakers and guests are available by request.

LINK TO STILLS AND TRAILERS FROM SELECT FILMS:

https://airtable.com/shrmApd2GitsEixsi/tblR7E9MAgSeDsYJo?blocks=hide

LINK TO STILLS FROM THE FESTIVAL:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hDL2asEora9AVyTr-2Jf01AO73w3ZMBs

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About the Points North Institute

Established in 2016, the Points North Institute is the launching pad for the next generation of nonfiction storytellers. Building on the success of the CamdenInternational Film Festival, the Points North Institute’s mission is to bring together a unique, interdisciplinary community of filmmakers, artists, journalists, industry leaders, and audiences, forming a creative hub on the coast of Maine where new stories and talent are discovered, collaborations are born, and the future of nonfiction media is shaped. Programs include the annual Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum, as well as a year-round calendar of artist development initiatives that nurture the careers of diverse nonfiction storytellers and help them develop a stronger artistic voice.

Founded in 2005 and recognized as one of the top documentary film festivals in the world, the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) brings the finest non- fiction cinema to the coast of Maine, showcasing over 100 documentary films from around the globe each fall. Running concurrently with CIFF, the Points North Forum provides filmmakers with opportunities for professional development and creative inspiration.

The 2019 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum will take place September 12 - 15 in Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. Major support provided by SHOWTIME® Documentary Films, the National Endowment for the Arts, National Geographic Documentary Films and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

For more information visit http://pointsnorthinstitute.org/

THIS WEEKEND

Watch the trailer here.

True love is unconditional. It crosses all barriers and accepts all. Such is the love of Ramon and Fredo in Rainbow’s Sunset, now screening in theaters across the U.S. and Canada.

TFC at the Movies screens multi-awarded LGBTQ film “Rainbow’s Sunset” for Pride Month

DALY CITY, Calif., June 14, 2019 --- TFC at the Movies’ offering for the month of June, Rainbow’s Sunset, won big at the 52^nd Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival in Texas, bagging the Special Jury Prize; the Gold Remi Award for Best Story Innovation for screenwriter Eric Ramos; and Best Actor for both lead actorsEddie Garcia and Tony Mabesa.

Rainbow’s Sunset is the story of Ramon (Eddie Garcia), an 84-year-old man who comes out to his family when he expresses his need to be with his cancer-stricken best friend and lover, Fredo (Tony Mabesa) during the final days of his life. Despite the opposition of their families, Ramon chooses to spend Fredo's last days with each other, holding on to their unconditional and undying love for each other.

Veteran actors (L-R) Eddie Garcia, Gloria Romera, and Tony Mabesa deliver award-winning performances in Rainbow’s Sunset, a family drama about an octogenarian who comes out to his family late in life.

The family drama, helmed by award-winning director Joel Lamangan, stars award-winning veteran actors Eddie Garcia (Ramon) and Gloria Romero (Sylvia), and Tony Mabesa (Fredo), with Tirso Cruz III, Aiko Melendez, Sunshine Dizon, and Max Collins.

Rainbow’s Sunset was also an official entry to the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festivalwhere it won several awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Gloria Romero, Best Screenplay, and many more. Rainbow’s Sunset is now screening in theaters across the U.S. and Canada. Go towww.mytfc.com/rainbowssunset, TFC US , or TFC Canada for the list of theaters near your area.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE

TFC’s BA Original Documentary “Lost and Found”

earns an EMMY® nomination

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2019 –The 48th Annual Northern California Area Emmy Award Nominationswere just announced and TFC’s BA Original Documentary: Lost & Found made the cut under Human Interest – Program/Special category.

Lost & Found presents the journeys of children who were abandoned in the Philippines, but who have found homes, hope and warmth in a snow-covered community in Bozeman, Montana. As they build new lives with their adopted families, these new Americans face many challenges adjusting to the culture, climate, and complexities of the country they now call home.

BA Correspondent and Lost & Found writer/producer Steve Angeles reveals that he is “totally excited” for his first Emmy nomination. “Ultimately the endgame is always to tell a good story, but to get recognized like this is another blessing on top of blessings,” Angeles adds.

According to Lost & Found Executive Producer Troy Espera “It’s an honor to be recognized by NATAS for Lost & Found. From start to finish, this piece was a labor of love for everyone involved.” Director and Cinematographer Jeremiah Ysip confirms the passion from all involved saying, “From SF to Bozeman to Manila and back, our teams are connected through the art of story and I am blessed to have shared the canvas with them.”

Espera points out that the theme of Lost and Found “offers a unique perspective on the immigrant experience. While the search for a better life in a new country is certainly part of their narrative, the added layer is that these orphans were also searching for family, home, and ultimately belonging as they navigated their new homes.”

After meeting the families up close, Angeles recognizes that in our world “exposed to too much hate, discrimination and extremism, the message of love is more important than ever, and these families are a good example of the unconditional love that world so badly needs.” Ysip agrees, saying “Sometimes you don’t have to be blood to be family. Love is universal.”

This is the third Emmy nomination for BA Original Documentaries. They won Emmys for the first two: The Filipino Champions of SOMA (Public/Current/Community Affairs Program/Special - 2013) and Box City (Public/Current/Community Affairs Program/Special - 2018).

10-time Emmy winner Ysip is also nominated in the Craft–Photographer-Program category for his work on Lost and Found. Aside from Espera, Angeles, and Ysip, the rest of the team who worked on Lost and Found are Danny Manansala (editor), Mike Carrion (graphics design), and the Manila team of Cidge Laxamana, Lorenz Roi Morales, Mark Antonio, Andrei Antonio, and Karl Velasco Montenegro.

Lost & Found premiered on TFC in March 2018 and is currently available to watch on TFC.tv.

The EMMY® award is presented for outstanding achievement in television by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). San Francisco/ Northern California is one of the nineteen chapters awarding regional Emmy® statuettes. Northern California is composed of media companies and individuals from Visalia to the Oregon border and includes Hawaii and Reno, Nevada. This year 712 English entries were received in 64 categories.

The Emmy® Gala returns to the SFJAZZ Center on Saturday, June 8, 2019.

Click here for a complete list of the finalists.

Cinematografo Originals winner “Yellow Rose”

selected as CAAMFest37 Centerpiece Narrative Film in San Francisco

DALY CITY, CA, April 8, 2019 – Less than a month after it was announced that it was chosen as the Opening Night film at the prestigious 35^th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) where it will make its World Premiere, ABS-CBN Cinematografo Originals Contest seed grant winner YELLOW ROSEwas chosen by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) as the Centerpiece Narrative for CAAMFest37. The prestigious festival will take place May 9-19, 2019 in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of Asian American Heritage Month.

CAAMFest, the nation’s largest Asian American film festival, is an 11-day feast of the senses, with film, music, food, and digital media from the world’s most innovative Asian and Asian American artists.

“Our CAAMFest audiences inspire us to deliver meaningful events and showcase new works that challenge our perceptions of Asian America,” said CAAM’s Festival & Exhibitions Director Masashi Niwano in the organization’s press release.

Written and directed by award-winning Filipino American film documentary and commercial directorDiane Paragas, YELLOW ROSE tells the story of a headstrong Filipina teen from a small Texas town, fighting to pursue her country music dreams while facing the threat of deportation. Its CAAMFest appearance is its San Francisco premiere.

YELLOW ROSE stars Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada, Tony Award winning actress and Grammy nominee Lea Salonga, country music star Dale Watson, Liam Booth, Gustavo Gomez (“The Walking Dead”), Libby Villari (“Boyhood”), and Princess Punzalan, and features original songs written by Watson, Paragas, Noblezada and cast.

YELLOW ROSE will be screened on Saturday, May 11 – AMC Kabuki 8, 6:00pm and Thursday, May 16 – Piedmont Theatre, 9:00pm during the festival.

Entering its 37th year, CAAMFest will continue to be an anchor event celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

For more information, visit https://caamedia.org/

One Great Love stars Dennis Trillo (top right), JC De Vera (bottom left) and Kim Chiu as the woman who must make a choice between her on again-off again boyfriend and a doctor she just met.

“One Great Love” reveals if “the one” is determined by destiny of dependability.

DALY CITY, Calif., March 18, 2019 --- TFC at the Movies brings a movie that asks if destiny provides the viewer with their one great love or is that significant other somebody that one gets to choose for oneself.

One Great Love is about love, which remains to be one of the greatest mysteries up to this day. Falling in love with someone is one thing but staying in love with that person is another story.

The story revolves around Zyra Paez (Kim Chiu), a woman who has broken-up so many times with her boyfriend, Carl Mauricio (J.C. De Vera), and yet fate has them meeting each other repeatedly, under serendipitous circumstances, one might call it fate.

And then, there is Dr. Ian Arcano (Dennis Trillo), a doctor whom Zyra has just met, but proves to be a very dependable friend, ready with a shoulder to cry on and a good listening ear to absorb all of Zyra’s woes.

Ian falls in love with Zyra who is still strongly attracted to Carl by virtue of destiny’s way of putting them in each other’s paths every single time. But can Zyra be responsible for her life choices?

One Great Love is a Filipino love story directed by Eric Quizon, starring Kim Chiu, J. C. de Veraand Dennis Trillo. It was an official entry to the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival last December, where Trillo won the Best Actor award for his performance in the movie.

“One Great Love” starts screening Friday, March 22, 2019 in theaters across the U.S. and Canada. Go to mytfc.com/onegreatlove for a list of theaters in your area.

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Cinematografo Originals winner “Yellow Rose”

selected as LA Asian Pacific Film Festival Opening Night Film

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