LFC would like to thank everyone who attended the Loyola Film Circus: LFC's 2nd GA at the MVP Roofdeck on November 19, 4:30 - 6:00pm.

TThe members learned about upcoming LFC projects and events through talks and circus booths. Members came in their best circus outfits, hoping to win gift ccertificates from the GA.

Here are some of the photos from the successful event!

GRAND GATHE LOYOLA FILM CIRCUS

PROMISING HORIZONS: LFC’S 3RD PR WORKSHOPBy Emil Hofileña

Last November 28, LFC’s Promotions DDepartment held their third workshop, which also served as an overview of the organization’s remaining major projects for the year. Headed by Janina Ledesma, and hosted by Zen Angeles and Gaby Tio Cuison, the workshop had the promotions heads of each project give reports on their intended ppromotional plans.

For the 14th Ateneo Video Open, LFC’s annual collegiate film competition, Amber Tan placed importance on promotions that would emphasize the individuality of film directors. Meanwhile, Angelli Aquino has the task of heading promotions for Turn Rights, LFC’s week-long social / political / economic / eenvironmental awareness project, which will focus on prison life for this year. In the meantime, Lia Neri’s promotional plans are underway for the Loyola Film Festival, which celebrates homegrown talent through scscreenings of Atenean-made films. Neri is also in charge of promotions for Under the Stars, LFC’s Valentine’s celebration. Despite Under the Stars taking place in February, she wants promotions for the event to be heavy and memorable as soon as now. The workshop concluded with hands-on promotional work; atattendees sent out mass texts and messages promoting the Loyola Film Festival and LFC’s Yule Ball.

There are still many more events to go and many more people to reach as the school year’s second semester steadily reaches its halfway point, but LFC’s Promotions Department is intent on ending the year with a bang.

To help usher in the Christmas season, LFC held its annual Yule Ball on the 1st of December at the Capitol Hills Golf Subdivision Clubhouse. The humble venue overlooking a small park housed approximately a hundred guests dressed in their best 1920s-themed outfits. As more and more people filled up their rrespective tables, Michel Hazanavicius’s 2011 silent film The Artist was shown to help everyone settle into the right mood.

SSkitty Reynante and Joycee Mejia were the evening’s hosts, and kept the program going with short party games, and by presenting Yule Ball awards to various LFC members. As the night went on, guests enjoyed dinner to the music of Coeli San Luis, and Ateneo Musicians’ Pool’s very own Last Minute. With the arrival of hihighly popular indie band She’s Only Sixteen, the dance floor was immediately filled up with fans and friends of the collegiate musicians. In true Yule Ball fashion, the program drew to a close with the lights dimmed and couples slow dancing to the voice of Angela Escudero, who was accompanied by Andrew De Pano. However, refusing to end on a typical note, the night officially ended with the remaining guests helping each other out with clean-up, all while stomping on the scattered balloons left on the dance floor.

AAfter an evening of film, food, friends, fun, and music, Yule Ball proves that LFC transcends film production, criticism, and appreciation; this organization is a community that has always valued its members above everything else, and will continue to do so. It is a family that parties together, and stays together.

THE ORG THAT PARTIES TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER

YULE BALLBy Emil Hofileña

Just like that sappy Taylor Swift song, this year, our dear LFC turns fifteen. In line with this momentous occasion and with LFC's vision-mission statement, Loyola Film Festival, the first film festival showcasing films by past and present Ateneo students and faculty, was launched last Monday, DDecember 3, 2012 in SOM111. This session featured the graduation films of the LFC IIsaPelikula students with the theme, love. While waiting for the audience to settle down, the trailers of each film were shown. The first film which was shown, “Meowzan” by the group of PV Vergara and Nicole Wong, elicited great amusement from the audience as it told the story of a loner ““cat-man” and the girl who falls for him. In contrast, the second film, “Date” by the

group of Antonio Adre and Matthew Ng, was much more serious, featuring a mmysterious young couple held ransom by a group of men. Shown next was “RNNR” by the group of Miguel Jimenez and Clarisse Chia, which is about Greg, an avid runner who finds running one of the greatest loves of his life. The fourth film, “Stella” by the group of Emil Hofilena and Ponch Mutuc, rerevolves around four friends who each recount their experience with a seemingly unobtainable girl named Stella. "Solo, Searching" by the group of Julienne Joven and MV Isip was shown next, featuring yet another girl named Stella and the loneliness she feels when her closest friend, Freddy goes missing. The next film, "Precipice" by ththe group of Jan Belmonte and Krizia Lim, provided much cheese and drew out a lot of awww’s from the audience as it told the story of a college student who finds his repetitive life changing when he falls in love with a Japanese exchange student. The last film, “Stalker” by the group of Uno De Los Reyes and Ysa Gohh, provided minimal dialogue as it told the story of Timothy who follows April, a girl he bumped into on his way to class, around campus to give her baback her schedule. All in all, it was a satisfying experience for the IsaPe kids to see all their hard work and determination translated onscreen.

LOYOLA FILM FESTIVAL: ISAPELIKULA GRADUATE FILMS IBy: Jean Mariel A. Arboleda

LOYOLA FILM FESTIVAL: ISAPELIKULA GRADUATE FILMS 2

Day two of Loyola Film Festival was a massive showcase of talent from the filmmakers of Loyola Film Circle as the graduate films from last semester’s Isapelikula were screened last December 5. Isapelikula was a series of film production classes held exclusively for the members of LFC, all of which culminated into ththe students creating various films ranging from comedy to romance to suspense, all highlighting the creativity of Ateneans.

As filmmakers and film lovers alike entered SOM 111, trailers of the films to be shown that day played on-screen, giving the room a theater-like ambiance. Six movies were part of the second batch of Isapelikula films that were screened that afternoon. The first movie was Can’t Live Without You, a hilarious silent cocomedy about a smitten man whose efforts to woo his lady-love bordered on stalking, all set fittingly to the song “How Can I Live Without You”. The second movie was Choose Your Own Soap Opera, which spun a twist to the

usual boy-meets-girl plot by setting it inside a simulation game, capping it all with a bittersweet ending. The third movie of the afternoon was Not On My Watch, another hhilarious film about two girls who become rivals after they seeing each other wear the same hair ribbon. Snapshot was the fourth film - a seemingly normal film about a couple and a photographer they met randomly while they were out together. This turned into a thriller after it was revealed that the photographer wawas actually a serial killer crazily possessive of other people’s girlfriends. Waltz, the fifth attraction, featured the emotional internal monologue of a guy whose love for a certain friend was unfortunately unrequited. Finally we have A Mime, a film about a man who con-tracted a strange mime-like condition after a car accident, a movie with an ending that boggled the minds of everyone well after the ccredits.

The successful run of the second day of the Loyola Film Festival was largely because of the Isapelikula filmmakers, whose graduate films were truly entertaining and outstanding. Hopefully, they continue their filmmaking ca-reers long after Isapelikula as judging from the films shown that afternoon, they have a bright fifilm future ahead of them.

By: Henna Yu

by Henna Yu

PELIKULA: AN EXHIBIT OF ATENEO FILMMAKERS

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Loyola Film Circle launched Pelikula: An EExhibit of Ateneo Filmmakers on December 10. The Pardo de Tavera room at the Ateneo Art Gallery was transformed into a tribute for Atenean filmmakers with the help of LFC’s Creatives team, who made posters with information and trivia about the filmmakers featured. Some of these filmmakers were Alvin Yapan, Marie Jamora, Paolo Dy, Marilou Diaz Abaya, Mike de Leon, and John Torres. The exhibit had memorabilia like film props, Cinemalaya tickets, awards, mini tapes, and scripts - all from the movies created by these ddirectors. There were even short films and trailers. Pelikula also had film posters: Ang Nawawala, QWERTY, Mayohan and many others.

After the exhibit, dinner was served downstairs for all of the night’s guests, which included Paolo Dy, one of the directors featured in the exhibit, and his wife Cathy Azanza. The night truly was a celebration of Atenean talent and creativity.

LOYOLA FILM FESTIVAL: THESIS FILMS OF AB COMMUNICATION SENIORS By Henna Yu

It was the Comm majors’ turn to shine on day four of the Loyola Film Festival with the screening of their thesis films. The films screened that afternoon not only showed the creativity of the seniors but also a range of themes, genres and emotions.

TThe first film of the afternoon was The Gospel According to Me, a movie about a man deep in vices and a cult that tries to save him but may have even darker secrets of its own. The second film screened was Lantana, an emotional film about a tragedy that threatens to tear apart the family of an Overseas Filipino Worker. The third film was LSS, a documentary on the local indie music scene, featuring the bands Nanay Mo, Ciudad and She’s Only Sixteen. Fourth was Pas(sion) de Trois, featuring three ballet dadancers dancing to rock music in various unconventional places. The last film was Shutdown, a sci-fi movie set in a future where memories can be transferred from one human to another with the simple touch of a button, and a special invention threatens the freedom of a nation.

Although largely different from each other, all the said films were great. They showed just how much the Comm Seniors were able to develop their talent through the years. Hopefully, we can expect more films from them in the near future.

To celebrate the last day of the Loyola Film FFestival, a screening of the 1999 Metro Manila Film Festival hit Muro-Ami was held at SEC B-201 last December 14. The film, directed by the late Marilou Diaz-Abaya, famously garnered thirteen wins out of sixteen MMFF nominations, and received much critical praise both locally and abroad. Muro-Ami stars Cesar Montano as Fredo – the captain of an ilillegal fishing boat – who vengefully faces his demons out at sea. The film is also a harrowingly realistic portrayal of muro-ami fishing (destroying coral reefs in order to drive fish towards nets), and the sub-human conditions of child labor in the Philippines.

For a film of such stark brutality, it was fitting that a smaller audience of brave souls had attended. What was intended to be a large-scale event had become a more personal, unique experience for the viewers. As the film gradually became more iintense, the audience also seemed to become more immersed, with more than a few vocal reac-tions. Even the air-conditioning seemed to become colder, and the room more vacuous – adding to the experience.

Muro-Ami closed this year’s LFF on an interesting note. Even over a decade after its initial release, the film still stands as an example of top-notch Filipino filmmaking, and as a reminder that filmmakers have the power to depict truth through art. Muro-Ami may show us an ugly side of hhumanity, but it is one we must face in order to repair.

MUROAMI: INTO THE DEPTHS OF

HORRIFIC REALITYBy Emil Hofileña

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The Ateneo Video Open, now on its 14th year, is an annual nationwide film competition open to collegiate-level filmmakers. It is organized by the Loyola Film Circle, the Ateneo de Manila University’s premiere film organization.

This event aims to highlight the effective use of aesthetically pleasing films as media for social discourse. There are four categories for entries: short narrative, music video, documentary, animation, and experimental.

Important dates to remember:January 12, 2013 - Deadline of submission of entriesTBA - Film ShowingTBA - Awards Night

BBecause the Ateneo Video Open wishes to recognize the country’s unique and diverse culture that molds its film industry, for a second time around, the language of the film is open to any indigenous dialect (non-contem-porary Filipino/English entries are required to be sub-titled).

The AVO Committee is HIGHLY encouraging the partici-pants as they will be eligible to win as Best Indigenous Language Narrative and additional cash prize.

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