PROGRAM FIVE
SEPTEMBER 6 Saturday
Showtime 8:00 p.m.
George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108
School of Cinema/Television, USC
850 West 34th Street, West Jefferson Blvd. • Los Angeles
(Btwn. Figueroa and McClintock; parking entrance on McClintock)
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MANONG
(United States, 1978) Directed by Linda Mabalot
Visual Communications and FilAm ARTS, Inc. observe the passing of former VC Executive Director and FPAC Founding Advisory Board member Linda Mabalot (1953-2003) with a program anchored by a showing of MANONG, her first completed video production. A component of the four-part Pan-Asian American video series “Hidden Treasures,” MANONG is a moving documentary portrait of the first wave of Filipinos who came to the United States beginning in the early 20th Century to find work. Their lives were dramatically portrayed in the writings of Carlos Bulosan, Cary McWilliams, and other writers and journalists of that period. Combining rare archival photographs, expressive animated sequences and interviews with Filipino American farmworkers and activists, the video unveils the manong’s contributions to the agricultural and service industries and their struggle to build a Filipino community. It tells of their decades in the farmland and canneries on the West Coast, and of the bachelor society which lingers today. MANONG is recognized as one of the first titles in the Visual Communications library to articulate the stories of Filipino Americans, and is still considered an essential starting point for those eager to learn the story of Filipinos in America.
Video, 29 minutes, documentary
Showtime 9:00 p.m.
George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108
BAMPINAY
(United States, 2003) Directed by Matthew Abaya
Matthew Abaya (director of Pinoy Visions 2001 offering HoME) marks a return to his unique brand of goth-style pop-horror with this kinetic take on the Dragon Slayer story. A modern-day Pinay ninja stalks the streets of San Francisco in search of an evil aswag, a female spirit who sucks the blood and vital organs of loathsome males who are out on “booty-call.” But will our heroine prevail, or succumb to the desires of the seemingly malevolent spirit?
Video (originated on 16mm), 21 minutes, narrative
CHOCOLATE
(United States, 2003) Directed by Ron Domingo
A boy smuggles chocolate to his lolo, unaware that his stern lola is on to his scheme. Will our hero cover up his deed in time? Or will he even need to?
Video, 5 minutes, narrative
GAME OF SOLITAIRE, THE
(United States, 2002) Directed by Dillon Delvo
Melissa, a Filipina American college student in San Francisco, is attempting to come to terms with a painful past. Her father, a manong (Filipino American old-timer) who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1920s, died when she was a young girl, leaving Melissa with more questions than answers about her family and her history. She travels to Stockton, California, the historic center of Filipino America, where she meets a card-playing manong, Rudy. With help from his fellow old-timer friends help Melissa understand her father and, ultimately, herself.
Video (originated on 16mm), 32 minutes, narrative
SKID MARKS
(United States, 2003) Directed by Chito Arellano, Roman Cortez, and Tracy Tubera
The latest comic send-up from Southern California’s Seven-Oh-Five posse imagines our heros (Chito, Roman and Tracy—who else?) as Reed Spacer, Michael McNight (The KnightRider, yo) and Triple Deezel battling for supreme conquest of the suburban streets. Produced for mere pennies on the dollar—and probably not even that much—SKID MARKS packs more entertainment value than that tired “2 Fast”-Whatever movie from earlier this summer. And those wise-cracking Pinoys (and lone Chicano) and their race cars aren’t so bad, either.
Video, 10 minutes, narrative
programONE
8.01.03 - 9.12.03
pinoy online visions
programTWO
9.03.03
pinoy living room visions
programTHREE
9.04.03
pinoy visions:
special sneak-peek
programFOUR
9.05.03
pinoy visions:
a
family affair
programFIVE
9.06.03
pinoy visions:
a
tribute to Linda Mabalot
programSIX
9.06.03-9.07.03
pinoy visions
on demand