KinoFest Special
Cinematic Connections with the Philippines
t33g33 a.k.a. Alyana Cabral (she/they) is a DJ, producer, and sound artist from the Philippines. Wholly immersed in Manila’s underground culture, she helps shape the current sonic sensibilities of local nightlife, through organizing and performing at parties with queer-powered platform, Elephant.
About the Panelists
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Cris Bringas
Cris Bingas is a Filipino filmmaker who narrativizes spaces through intimate character work, blending documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. His works, both as a director and creative producer, have been presented at the Berlinale, Locarno, DOK Leipzig, LAAPFF, Granada, Busan, Singapore, and SeaShorts, among others.
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Moira Lang
Moira Lang is a screenwriter and producer who has worked on such trailblazing films as Patay na si Hesus (Jesus is Dead), Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, the End of History), Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington! (Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings), and Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros). Maximo premiered at Sundance 2006 and Norte at Cannes 2013. Distributed internationally, both were Best International Film nominees at the Film Independent Spirit Awards--the first Filipino films to receive this distinction--and were the Philippines' official entries to the Oscars.
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Alex Poblete
Alex Poblete is an independent film and video producer/line producer. Her body of work includes The Ebb of Forgetting (Pardi Di Domani, 68th Locarno International Film Festival); Dayang Asu (ASEAN International Film Festival & Awards 2017); and The Sweet Taste of Salted Bread and Undies (Belize IFF 2019 & Calella FF 2020). In 2014, she was selected to participate in the ASEAN-ROK: Film Leaders Incubator FLY2014 in Myanmar where she became the recipient of the Busan Bank Scholarship, a production grant given at the end of the workshop. A Full Circle Lab: Creative Producers Program and EAVE Ties that Bind fellow, she continues to pursue her producing work through developing various shorts and feature films for local and international co-production.
About the Moderator
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Mariah Reodica
Mariah Reodica is a musician, moving image artist, and cultural journalist. She has published about independent art initiatives, women and queer artists, audiovisual archives, and other ongoing currents in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. She has taught film at the University of the Philippines and De La Salle-College of St. Benilde. Reodica received the 2018 Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism at the Ateneo Art Awards and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2011. She graduated from the University of the Philippines Film Institute with a Bachelor of Arts in Film, cum laude.
