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  • #QCShorts 2023 Calls for Submissions

    QCinema International Film Festival is now accepting submissions for #QCShorts 2024. The festival is offering six production grants, each valued at P350,000, to support emerging filmmakers. Deadline is on February 25, 2024, 11:59 PM.

    All Filipino citizens aged 18 and above are qualified to submit their narrative fiction, animation, or experimental entries, with a maximum total running time (TRT) of 20 minutes, including opening and closing credits.

    The final film output must have its world premiere in this year’s edition of QCinema. In addition to screenings during QCinema 2024, both theatrical and online, QCinema reserves the right to screen the film after the festival, with prior notice to the proponent. 

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    Rights to the final film output belong to the proponent. 

    Applicants must submit two PDF files: a full script in standard screenwriting format and a full deck containing the logline, short synopsis (maximum of 3 paragraphs), long synopsis (maximum 1-page concept treatment), director’s statement, director’s profile, producer’s profile, producer’s statement, sample works (project details with link/s, including access credentials for password-protected files), proposed cast and crew, line item budget (pre-production, actual production and postproduction costs), financial plan, and timeline of production.

    Only one entry per proponent (either the director or producer) is allowed. 

    Filmmaker proponents and co-financiers must abide by QCinema festival rules, guidelines, deadlines, and contracts. In case of violations, QCinema reserves the right to disqualify the filmmaker or proponent and forfeit the entire grant. 

    The festival also reminds everyone to adhere to health and safety protocols. QCinema will not be liable for any untoward incidents during production. Also, use of original literary sources, music materials, and film footage must have proper clearance from its respective copyright owners before it can be used in the final film output

    For more details and to submit, visit: https://qcinema.ph/submissions/qcshorts2024/

  • FDCP Partners with QCinema International Film Festival, To Screen 3 Cannes Films

    In line with its goal to bring world cinema to the Philippines, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) is set to screen Cannes Film Festival official selection titles in the QCinema International Film Festival from November 18 to 25.

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    Fresh from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Return to Seoul by Davy Chou and Corsage by Marie Kreutzer, both from the Un Certain Regard section, will be part of the 10th year edition of QCinema under the Asian Next Wave, the festival’s main competition section, and Screen International, respectively.

    Return to Seoul by Cambodian-French filmmaker Chou is about a twenty-five-year-old French woman Frankie who returns to South Korea for the first time to where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. In her hopes to find her biological parents, her journey takes a surprising turn. Return to Seoul was nominated for Best Film at the 2022 Sydney Film Festival.

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    Patrick Brzeski of The Hollywood Reporter describes Return to Seoul as “expressive,unpredictable, feminist and fun, Freddie is a vibrant beam of searching, semi-wounded humanity.” For Clarence Tsui of South China Morning Post, Chou’s film surpasses its basic premise, he said: “Though Chou is neither a woman nor a Korean, nor an
    adoptee, he has managed to find something in Return to Seoul that he clearly connects with and that resonates with anyone else looking for their own place in the world, too.”

    Austrian director Kreutzer’s Corsage is a film about the late years of Empress Elisabeth of Austria played by Vicky Krieps who bagged the Un Certain Regard award for Best Performance. Empress Elisabeth ‘Sissi’ is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, as she celebrated her 40th birthday, she must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter.

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    Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian commends the Corsage star Vicky Krieps for her performance as Elisabeth, “Vicky Krieps puts in a star turn. An exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance.” Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline also praised the actress, “Vicky Krieps brings great complexity to her portrait of the empress.”

    Cannes 2019 Best Screenplay winner and Golden Globe nominee, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a French film by Celine Sciamma, is also returning this year in cinemas under QCinema’s Rainbow QC section and is being co-presented by the French Film Festival and the QCinema LGBTQIA+ Program. The film also won the Queer Palm at Cannes, making it the first film directed by a woman to win the award. Rainbow QC showcases the distinctive portrayals of the LGBT experience in varying periods and settings.

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    Aside from Return to Seoul, Corsage, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the FDCP also is bringing other top-notch international films to the Philippines including Celine Sciamma’s latest feature Petite Maman, Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated (Best International Feature and Best Screenplay) film The Worst Person in the World where
    actress Renate Reinsve won Best Actress in Cannes 2021, and 2021 Cannes Un Certain Regard film, Women Do Cry, by Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva.

    FDCP’s latest acquisition, Léonor Serraille’s Mother and Son, was nominated for Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or under the In Competition section. It won the C.S.T Young Film Technician Prize for the film’s production designer Marion Burger. For more information and updates, follow QCinema’s social media pages and FDCP’s official pages on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

    SCREENING SCHEDULE
    Return to Seoul
    Nov 18 Friday 9:25 – 11:15 pm Gateway Cinema 2
    Nov 19 Saturday 6:25-8:20 pm Gateway Cinema 2
    Nov 22 Tuesday 1:30-3:10 pm Gateway Cinema 2
    Nov 23 Wednesday 8:40-10:40 pm Trinoma Cinema 1

    Corsage
    Nov 19 Saturday 3:15-5:15 pm Gateway Cinema 5
    Nov 24 Thursday 1:00-2:55 pm Trinoma Cinema 1
    Nov 25 Friday 8:45-10:45 pm Rockwell Cinema 6

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Nov 22 Tuesday 1:00-3:05 pm Trinoma Cinema 1
    Nov 25 Friday 1:00-3:05 pm Gateway Cinema 1