Bacollywood 3: Visayan filmmakers take spotlight

CEBU, Philippines - The Bacollywood Film Festival has featured filmmakers from the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental as well as highlighted the work of many other emerging and established filmmakers throughout the country, providing a platform for rising talent and a venue for discourse on current trends in Independent Film Making.

Now on its third year, the film fest’s organizing group Produksyon Tramontina together with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will stage BACOLLYWOOD 3: Visayan Film Festival come February 1-5, 2011 in Bacolod City.

Due to popular demand, the festival will give premium importance to Visayan films, directors and stories with the intention of educating the audience of Visayan Culture through cinema. BACOLLYWOOD 3: Visayan Film Festival will be a five-day event screening throughout Robinson’s Movie World Bacolod, Art District Stage and major college and university campuses in the area. 

At the time of this release, the following directors have confirmed attendance: Gabby Fernandez and Monster Jimenez from Manila; Joanna Arong and Remton Siega Zuasola from Cebu; Julius De La Peña, Cindy Ballesteros, Peque Gallaga, Lily Alejandrino from Bacolod City. 

BACOLLYWOOD 3: Visayan Film Festival is made possible through a partnership of University of St. La Salle, La Consolacion College, University of Negros Occidental Recoletos, Colegio de San Agustin and Robinson’s Movie World Bacolod.

For more information, contact Anne L. Gorriceta, Project Coordinator, at [email protected] or for the latest updates http://bacollywood.blogspot.com/