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Where to Watch Pinoy Short Films?

20 Monday May 2019

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The (relative) success of Philippine cinema has brought the rise of short films. Film schools, as well as media literacy classes in senior high school, has delivered a continuous and abundant supply of short films. In the past, cineastes either have to wait for annual school screenings, or the film festival limited runs. With the advent of the Internet and the social media, audience from here and abroad can catch Pinoy short films even after their theatre runs.

We listed below five online sites where you can catch some of the best Filipino short films.

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Five Feminist Films to Watch on iflix

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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We often see women in Filipino films, yet their roles are only confined to either being a dutiful wife or a beautiful mistress. In the rise of the independent cinema movement, subjects and themes were expanded and women began to take important roles. Until today, films are in constant struggle to create variety of depiction on women. This women’s month, as we fight for a more feminist society, we also recognize media pieces that tried to widen women discourse. Some were successful and some were not.

Iflix offers multiple movies that portray various roles of women. Although they might not be the most recommended movies to watch, they contribute to the feminist movement.  Below are five films on their site that goes beyond the typical portrayal of women.

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Five Viddsee Short Films You Have to Watch

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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With the advent of torrent-sharing websites, films became readily available to anyone in the Internet. Yet, many of the files shared online are almost always synonymous to piracy. This is simply off-putting to movie buffs who believe that artists should reap maximum profit from their works. Viddsee, an online video service company, solves this dilemma. It offers a guilt-free movie experience as it allows its users to watch short films made available in public domain. Directors and production staff submit their works in the website. This Singapore-based company currently curates films from Asia but we don’t know yet, they might expand to Europe and America in the near future.

As a start, we give you five of their Philippine-made shorts that might interest you. We are providing a link of each video. But if you wish to view more works from other countries, we suggest visiting their website and tell us submissions that we might have missed.

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Oscars 2016 Best Picture Nominees

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

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American films do not have the monopoly to be called great. Yet, their wide rich and strong influence to the popular crowd are undeniable. This February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) will honor last year’s best of cinema. The Best Picture Award is the highest among all the categories. With this Award, the films are judged based on every element: directing, writing, acting, musical scoring, film editing and other works put in the film. Below is a summary of the reviews we made for each of the nominee. You can click on their titles to redirect you to the main article.

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Five Painful Romance Films You Must Watch this February

06 Saturday Feb 2016

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500 days of summer, blue valentine, brokeback mountain, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, february, heath ledger, her, Jake Gyllenhaal, jim carrey, joaquin phoenix, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, kate winslet, Movie review, romance, ryan gosling, valentine, valentine's day, zooey deschanel

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In this month of hopeless romantics, we give you a list of films proving that love isn’t always sweet and happy. There are movies that deviate from the path of cheesy romcoms and they are willing to reveal to you that romance requires pain. So if you are the type of movie buff who veers away from clichés of happy endings, the following movies are right for you.

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