{"id":43888,"date":"2015-03-02T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43888"},"modified":"2015-03-02T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:09:06","slug":"aiko-melendez-wins-best-actress-in-london-world-cinema-filmfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/02\/aiko-melendez-wins-best-actress-in-london-world-cinema-filmfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiko Melendez wins Best Actress in London World Cinema Filmfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiko-Melendez-1210-600x337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43890\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiko-Melendez-1210-600x337-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiko-Melendez-1210-600x337-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiko-Melendez-1210-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Actress Aiko Melendez won the Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film for Louie Ignacio&#8217;s &#8220;Asintado&#8221; during the 7th International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema in London.<\/p>\n<p>Melendez, however, was not present during the February 27 awards night so Ignacio and the film&#8217;s producer, Ferdinand Lapuz recieved the trophy on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders for the best actress award includes\u00a0Charlotte Munck (Denmark) for <em>Meeres Stille<\/em>, Marianna Panagidou (United Kingdom) for <em>Butterfly<\/em>, Sveva Alviti (Italy) for <em>Borderline<\/em>, Jung Ho for<em>Diary<\/em> (Taiwan),\u00a0Anqi Liu (China) for <em>Belief<\/em>, Shahana Chatterjee (India) for <em>Picnic<\/em>, Lala Forte for <em>Distanza,<\/em>\u00a0and Vilhena Paulo for <em>(Des)Encontros.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asintado&#8221; was an entry in the Directors Showcase section for the\u00a0Directors Showcase section of the 2014 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Melendez plays the role of a morally-challenge mother of an autistic boy (Miggs Cuaderno) whose skills were exploited by her elder son\u00a0(Jake Vargas), a courier of a ruthless drug dealer (Gabby Eigenmann).<\/p>\n<p>Including Aiko\u2019s Best Actress win, the film gained\u00a0a total of seven nominations including Best Picture in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Actress Aiko Melendez won the Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film for Louie Ignacio&#8217;s &#8220;Asintado&#8221; during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":43890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43888","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}