{"id":258485,"date":"2020-06-18T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258485"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:48:34","slug":"jake-and-charice-docu-bests-in-intl-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/18\/jake-and-charice-docu-bests-in-intl-film-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jake and Charice\u2019 docu bests in int\u2019l film fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fteamjakezyrus%2Fphotos%2Fa.1415141995232693%2F3132820086798200%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"681\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nA documentary about Jake Zyrus\u2019s life won the Gold Camera award in an international film festival that has been around since 1967.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, exactly a month after the singer-songwriter\u2019s birthday, his official page brought out the good news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations Jake Zyrus and to the whole team for winning the Gold Camera award in US INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL for his documentary aired in Japan last November 2019,\u201d the page wrote, thanking all the people behind the success of the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake and Charice\u201d was produced by NHK and co-produced with ABS-CBN.<\/p>\n<p>It won against four entries in the Social Issues category: \u201cMy Birthday: Keeping Memories Alive Through Love\u201d (Hong Kong), \u201cRT Reporta: \u201cLa Bestia\u201d Y Sus \u00c1ngeles\u201d (Russia), \u201cPakistan Child Protection,\u201d and \u201cFrom The Soil: How One Village Cut Poverty Through Flowers\u201d (China).<\/p>\n<p>The documentary\u2019s producers were Shin Yasuda, Akiko Tabakotani, Keiko Tsuneki, and Kenji Hyodo. It was directed and edited by Hiroko Ninomiya with Yusaki and Mitsuwaka and Jayson Pajarillo as cinematographers. Kenichi Tominaga and Larry Steven Ojeda were the people behind its sounds.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time for Jake to work with filmmakers from Japan as he was tapped for the role of Akira in the film \u201cYaru Onna (She\u2019s a Killer)\u201d in 2018, when he was still Charice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake and Charice\u201d follows his journey of transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe singer Charice was the first Asian artist to have a Billboard top-ten hit. Mentored by producer David Foster, she wowed the world with her incomparable talent. Seven years later, she came out as a transgender man, changed her name to Jake Zyrus, and made a fresh start without the renown or voice that he had established as Charice. Why did Charice choose to live as Jake? How did his family and other people dear to him react? NHK documented Jake\u2019s life and new challenges, his joys and sorrows, and the journey he took to finding his own voice. We hope the documentary will be watched by a wide range of viewers including those who are not interested in gender issues,\u201d read the synopsis.<\/p>\n<p>According to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestawards.com\">website<\/a>, US International Film &amp; Video Festival was born as U.S. Industrial Film and Video Festival in 1967 in Chicago. Its mission is \u201cto recognize quality work produced for industry, associations, government, religious or education organizations whose purpose is to inform, motivate, stimulate or educate an audience.\u201d It houses five mini-competitions in one: Corporate, Education, Entertainment, Documentary, and Student productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary about Jake Zyrus\u2019s life won the Gold Camera award in an international film festival that has been around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":258553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258554,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258485\/revisions\/258554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}