{"id":8547,"date":"2014-05-02T11:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2014-08-29T00:04:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:04:42","slug":"filipino-film-debosyon-wins-award-in-toronto-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/02\/filipino-film-debosyon-wins-award-in-toronto-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino film &#8216;Debosyon&#8217; wins award in Toronto Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/debosyon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8549\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/debosyon.jpg\" alt=\"debosyon\" width=\"677\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/debosyon.jpg 677w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/debosyon-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Facebook Page of &#8220;Debosyon&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Filipino film won Honorable Mention for Outstanding International Feature at the ReelWorld Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Alvin Yapan\u2019s \u201cDebosyon\u201d, an entry in the New Breed section of the 2013 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, despite not winning any award in Cinemalaya and Young Critics Circle Award, wowed the international festival with its enigmatic love story between a young man (Paulo Avelino) and a mysterious woman (Mara Lopez) set at the foot of the Mayon Volcano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film was recognized by ReelWorld\u2019s festival jury for the artistic risks that [the film] took and creative sure-handedness in execution,\u201d Yapan said.<\/p>\n<p>Variety magazine\u2019s Maggie Lee also named \u201cDebosyon\u201d as one of the \u201cTop 10 of Under the Radar Asian films for its erotic rhapsody on Catholic &amp; Pinoy pagan iconography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yapan\u2019s film is also one of the Philippines\u2019 five entries in the ongoing 30th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival which opened on Thursday, May 1, and will run until May 11.<\/p>\n<p>Borgy Torre\u2019s \u201cKabisera,\u201d Siege Ledesma\u2019s \u201cShift,\u201d Miko Livelo\u2019s \u201cBlue Bustamante\u201d and Mikhail Red\u2019s \u201cRekorder\u201d were the other four entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of &#8220;Debosyon&#8221; A Filipino film won Honorable Mention for Outstanding International Feature at the ReelWorld Film Festival &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2751],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","tag-debosyon","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","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=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}