film literacy

QUEER CINEMA: FROM MARGINAL TO MAINSTREAM

The journey taken by gay and lesbian filmmaking in the Philippines has been a long and arduous one. From invisibility to becoming marginal, queer filmmaking has jumped into the frontline of film festivals and audience reception. What accounts for this sudden popular acceptance? What forces accounted for this change of attitude for a once “taboo” topic? Studying films from Nick Deocampo’s “Oliver” to Aureus Solito’s “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” to Brillante Mendoza’s “Masahista,” gay films will be studied for their the ways they tackled their theme, aesthetics and ideological positions taken.

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HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Under the shadows of the mainstream Philippine movie industry is the world of independent cinema. It has it own set of filmmakers, films, audience, and even ideology to guide its continued production and propagation. What is its definition? Who practices “independent” filmmaking? How has the market developed with the growth of this kind of filmmaking? By appraising its forms – short films, documentaries, experimental, animation, educational, propaganda, etc. – independent cinema in all its myriad expressions will be analyzed and studied.