{"id":50412,"date":"2015-05-26T16:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50412"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T08:36:38","slug":"taklub-wins-award-in-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/26\/taklub-wins-award-in-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Taklub\u2019 wins award in Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50420\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Takubofficialmovieposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50420\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Takubofficialmovieposter-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Takubofficialmovieposter-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Takubofficialmovieposter.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 \u201cTaklub,\u201d a film by Brillante Ma. Mendoza recently won the Ecumenical Jury Prize-Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mendoza said he had always dedicated the film for the survivors of the supertyphoon \u2018Yolanda\u2019 (Haiyan) which hit the country November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I gave a speech before the film\u2019s premiere last May 19 in Cannes, I told the audience that we made this film for \u2018Yolanda\u2019 survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he also told Larry Castillo, who is in France, to \u201cdedicate the award to the people of Tacloban and other survivors of supertyphoon \u2018Yolanda\u2019 (Haiyan).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza expressed how \u201chappy and honored\u201d he was that his film won an award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps the jury cited \u2018Taklub\u2019 for its spiritual message,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Taklub\u2019 features Nora Aunor, who plays the role of a mother who lost her children during the calamity.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza also won the same award from Signis\/Interfilm for Masahista\u201d in Brisbane in 2006; for \u201cFoster Child\u201d in Canary Islands in 2008; for \u201cLola\u201d in Fribourg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every festival in different countries, the Ecumenical Prize or Signis\/Interfilm award is handed out,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 \u201cTaklub,\u201d a film by Brillante Ma. Mendoza recently won the Ecumenical Jury Prize-Special Mention at the Cannes Film &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412","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=50412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}