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BY PETER SOLIS NERY
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DESPITE all that you have heard about me, or how powerful you think I am, there are really some things that are beyond my control. I try to take control of everything, but when information is not given to me, I make the best of whatever little information I have.
So, yes, there are things in the 2016 Cinekasimanwa Film Festival that are simply beyond my control. First, I could not really announce early on that I have an entry in the ongoing Cinekasimanwa (the film festival started Dec. 1 and will end Dec. 21) because I did not know that my film was accepted until about Nov. 29.
I was not in that announcement meeting, and my representative said that we were Rated X, even if what was really said was, “Based on the nudities and simulated sex in your film, and based on the previous decisions of the MTRCB on movies similar to yours, you could be Rated X.”
My rep owns the mistake now, but too late, because I have already took on the social media to announce that my film is the first X-rated Ilonggo film in history. In fact, right away on Nov. 29, I have also written and dispatched my “My Life as Art” column for the following day tackling the film rating issue.
Then, last Monday, Dec. 5, six days later, I was told that my film is actually Rated R-18, and, as such, cannot be shown at the SM Cinemas along with the other competing films of the Cinekasimanwa Film Festival. So, we campaigned hard for the world premiere on Dec. 8 at the Cinematheque Iloilo.
I am writing this piece on Thursday morning before our premiere, because the cut off time for my column articles is 10 a.m. I am a newspaperman and I keep my deadlines, mindful of other newspaper workers like editors and layout artists. So yeah, I would have wanted you to know early Friday morning what happened to my film’s premiere, but it is just impossible.
On Tuesday night, Dec. 6, I learned from the Cinekasimanwa organizers that “FDCP, in special partnership with MTRCB for film festivals supported by the former, arrived ‘just now’ with a decision, and your film Ikapito nga Adlaw is Rated R-13.”
It looks like Cinekasimanwa originally programmed my film thinking of the worst possible scenario (an X or an R-18 rating), which is why they scheduled it to be screened at the Cinematheque. However, given the new rating, the Cinekasimanwa Film Festival has decided to give us an additional screening at SM Cinema 1 on Dec. 14, Wednesday at 8 p.m.
So, I have not been lying, and I have not been misleading you, my dear readers. It’s just that not all information is given to me all at once, and I just have to make the best decisions all the time, based on whatever information I have.
Anyway, we are most thankful to Festival Director and Cinekasimanwa founder Elvert Bañares for giving our film the best exposure it can get. And I think that Elvert is more than fair and generous in championing Ikapito nga Adlaw – a film by Peter Solis Nery. For his courage to program our film even if it was tittering between X and R ratings, I think he truly makes Cinekasimanwa proud to have a festival director who will fight for Ilonggo films of whatever persuasion.
So, all you people who did not get to see Ikapito nga Adlaw’s premiere yesterday all the torrid kisses that you missed in your silly miserable lives, go watch it at SM Cinema 1 on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 8 p.m.
Those of you who are poor laborers, clock-in-clock-out employees, and 8-to-5 students with boring, humdrum lives, should really have no excuse now. Take note, it is 8:00 freaking p.m.!
Now, if your problem is the P120 admission ticket (P100 if you are a student), I really don’t know how to solve your problem. Unless you go to SM Cinema 1 30 minutes before the show, and flirt with me! I am rich, but choosy. I can get you in for free, and buy you popcorn, too, if you catch my fancy. Bwahaha.
Oh, and by the way, if you flirt hard enough for me to notice, I may just audition you for my new film since I just met a new producer who was so impressed with Ikapito nga Adlaw that he is so insistent for me to make another short film before the year is over, or before the end of the Dinagyang season. How sweet is that?
Life is good. I just wish I have a way of telling you how our premiere went. But hey, that’s why you have to read about it here on Monday.
And this is my last promotional campaign: If you missed Ikapito nga Adlaw’s premiere, you will have a last chance to see it on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 8 p.m., at SM Cinema 1. Really, I can’t imagine why you’d pass up the chance to see a controversial Ilonggo film. I mean, I am not “the” Peter Solis Nery for nothing.
If bloggers and other filmmakers, and all those who have already seen it, say that my film is controversial, maybe they really know what they are talking about. How can you afford to be left in the dark about these things? Unless, of course, you are just a pobreng alindahaw living a sorry existence without the money, or power, to enjoy the finer things in life like movies and art.
Oh, if you are so poor, just die!/PN
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