{"id":87490,"date":"2017-02-01T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87490"},"modified":"2017-02-01T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:02:33","slug":"2016-good-year-for-philippine-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/2016-good-year-for-philippine-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"2016: Good Year for Philippine Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did 2016 was the year the Indie film genre breaks the local mainstream market by being enlisted as entries for the MMFF, it was also a year where various films from the genre earned international acclaim and recognition.<\/p>\n<p>A few Filipino films made British Film Institute&#8217;s Sight and Sound Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Best Movies of 2016&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The list sought the consultation of 163 critics and curators from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Three of Lav Diaz&#8217;s films made it on the list.\u00a0<em>&#8220;Ang Babaeng Humayo&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(The Woman Who Left) peaked at no.31. The film was a Golden Lion Winner in the Venice Film Fest and garnered five votes from the panel. While\u00a0<em>&#8220;Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery) and\u00a0<em>&#8220;Ang Araw Bago ang Wakas&#8221;<\/em> (The Day Before the End) were also chosen by respondents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hele<\/em><em> sa Hiwagang Hapis<\/em> was a Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlinale 2016 while\u00a0<em>Ang Araw Bago ang Wakas<\/em> won top prizes in Germany and Croatia respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Two panelists on the other hand went for Brilliante Mendoza&#8217;s &#8220;Ma.Rosa&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Canadian curator and critic James Quandt listed the film in his Top.5 while French critic Jean-Michel Frodon added it in his extended Top 15 list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did 2016 was the year the Indie film genre breaks the local mainstream market by being enlisted as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,46],"tags":[14501,12191,14499,14500,14498,7702,10845,343],"class_list":["post-87490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-culture","category-entertainment-ph","tag-ang-araw-bago-ang-wakas","tag-ang-babaeng-humayo","tag-brilliante-mendoza","tag-hele-sa-hiwagang-hapis","tag-indie-films","tag-lav-diaz","tag-ma-rosa","tag-philippines","mauthors-phoebe-balubar","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87490","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=87490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}