CINEMARALITA Goes to UP Diliman

The First Film Festival About the Philippine Urban Poor

The Department of Geography, in cooperation with the Urban Poor Resource Center of the Philippines (UPRCP) and the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), will screen classic and documentary films on the plight of urban poor on September 14, 2015 at PH 207 Palma Hall.  Each screening will be followed by short talks and open forum. 

Set 1   8:30-11:30am      Maynila sa Kuko ng Liwanag by Lino Brocka (125 mins)

            Speakers:            Prof. Patrick Campos (College of Mass Communication)

                                        Dr. Joseph Palis (CSSP, Geography)

           

                                   

Set 2   11:45-2:00pm      Short films on the Housing Struggles in San Roque              

                                         Puso ng Lungsod  by Ilang-ilang Quijano

                                         Demolisyon by Kodao Productions

                                         Bagyong Gubyerno by Adjani Arumpac

            Speakers:            San Roque Resident

                                        JPGS

            

Set 3   2:00-5:00pm       Sister Stella L. by Mike de Leon (96 mins)              

            Speakers:           TUDLA on the struggle of the Tanduay workers  

                                        Prof. Marion Tan (CSWCD)

This event is also co-organized by the Geographic Society of the University of the Philippines (GSUP) and Junior Philippine Geographical  Society (JPGS).

         

[FILM SHOWING] Tambien La Lluva (Even in the Rain)

As part of the celebration of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) Week, the Department of Geography and Junior Philippine Geographic Society (JPGS) are sponsoring the film screening of También La Lluvia (Even the Rain) by Madrid-based filmmaker Icíar Bollaín. The film screening happens on February 24, 2015 (Tuesday) at 4:00pm at PH 206 (Please note the change in venue). 

The film centers on a crew of filmmakers shooting a movie about Christopher Columbus in a remote town in Bolivia involving the local indigenous and non-indigenous population, who are themselves forming resistance groups to protest the plan of the Bolivian government to privatize water. It has a lot of intersections on geography-informed topics such as the nature of changing landscapes, the aestheticization of violence, the efficacy of social movements, and the role of media as a modality/tool/weapon to tell (or un-tell) ground truth.