Vancouver’s Pinoy Indie Film Festival streams until October

The virtual film festival is still on at the partner streaming website until October 2023. Also included this year are 17 Short Film entries.

 Vancouver, Canada’s annual Pinoy Indie Film Festival (Philippine Independent Film Festival) screening of independent full-feature films from the Philippines and short films from local filmmakers has begun.

It finally hit theatres in June, but The virtual film festival is still on at the partner streaming website until October 2023. Also included this year are 17 Short Film entries. Visit the Short Film page to watch for FREE.

Oras de Peligro stars the multi-awarded Cherry Pie Picache and Allen Dixon and  directed by Joel Lamangan. It  depicts a family’s struggles parallel to the events leading up to the EDSA People’s Power Revolution in February 1986.

Pedro Calungsod Batang Martir stars Rocco Nacino, Christian Vasquez, Jestoni Alarcon, written, directed and produced by Francis Villacorta, It brings to the screen the short yet meaningful life of the young Visayan saint whose canonization by Pope Benedict XVI made him the second Filipino saint fafter San Lorenzo Ruiz.

Aria stars Liya Sarmiento and Jay Garcia,directed by Carlo Catu. Aria is a drama set during several decades when the Hukbalahap was formed from the peasant and workers’ movement to resist the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines in World War II.

Tanabata’s Wife stars Miyuki Kamimura and Mai Fanglayan, directed by Charlson Ong, Lito Casajen and Choi Pangilinan.

The film is based on the classic Philippine short story “Tanabata’s Wife,” set in the 1920’s, by Sinai Hamada. Tanabata-San is a successful Japanese immigrant farmer in La Trinidad Valley in Benguet, where the Japanese pioneered the planting of salad greens. Middle-aged and lonely, he hires a young feisty Bontoc woman, Fasang, as farmhand, and falls in love with her. They get married and have a son, but Fasang is attracted to the city lights of burgeoning Baguio, and to someone else.

Love is Love starsJC de Vera, Roxanne Barcelo and Raymond Bagatsing, directed by GB Sampedro. It is a romantic comedy that brings a lot of surprises.

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