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ecstaticTUTOS screens back-to-back with KARSEL at UST CineVita today
Seymour Barros Sanchez
Under the theme 'Strengthening Family Ties,' the second CineVita film festival will screen Louise Anne Yamsuan's undergraduate thesis "Tutos" after another thesis film, Rianne Hill Soriano's "Karsel," at the Thomas Aquinas Research Center (TARC) Auditorium at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) today, 10 A.M.
"Tutos" (Seam), which was selected Best Thesis Narrative at the University of the Philippines (UP) Film Institute, is a film about the dynamics and complexities of a single father-daughter relationship in a postmodern patriarchal Filipino society.
Rey Ocampo (Danny Magisa), a tailor in a small town, is a stubborn, over-controlling single father to Elisa (Myka Pingol), a 20-year old student aspiring to be a writer. Not having any other female around the house, Elisa grew too stiff and tough for a lady and embodied the Filipino slang term of being "astig" which means tough – a fact her father considerably objects to.
The father and daughter story is narrated by Boyet (Amante Pulido), a loyal comrade and co-worker of Rey in the tailor shop. Conflict escalates when Rey, suffering from a heart attack, asks Elisa, already at the peak of realizing her dream as a writer, to stop studying for a while. Instead of retaliating against her father, Elisa used this turning point in their lives to write a story – this story, that is yet to inspire its future readers.
Yamsuan earned her degree in Film and Audiovisual Communication from UP. A writer, director, and independent cinema advocate, she has worked on several films both as a student and as a media practitioner. She is currently a lecturer at the School of Design and Arts of De La Salle College of St. Benilde and a production coordinator for The Filipino Channel (TFC).
CineVita is a nonprofit and educational endeavor of UST's 80-year old student publication The Varsitarian together with the UST Institute of Religion, UST Journalism Society, UST Literary Society, and UST Concilium Philosophiae.
All documentaries and local films are open to the public. Full-length foreign films are exclusive to lecturers, film critics and students. Admission is free.
For festival program and schedule of screenings, log on to www.varsitarian.com. Call 4061611 local 8235 or contact JC Cordon at 0905-4253778 or Levine Lao at 0906-3303262.

March 5, Wednesday
8 A.M. OPENING CEREMONIES
*Registration
9 - 9:30 A.M. A CHILD FROM CHINA (documentary, Aurora Santiago)
*Registration
9:40 - 11:10 A.M. FOSTER CHILD (full-length feature, Brillante Mendoza)
*Lunch break and registration
1 - 3:40 P.M. FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (foreign film, Lloyd Kramer)
*Registration
4 - 4:20 P.M. SA KAMBAS NG LIPUNAN (documentary, Joey Velasco)
*Registration
4:30 - 6 P.M. ENDO (full-length feature, Jade Castro)
March 6, Thursday
8 - 8:15 A.M. ESTROPA (documentary, Sheryl Rose Andes and Michael Juancho Galang)
*Registration
8:20 - 9:50 A.M. TRIBU (full-length feature, Jim Libiran)
*Registration
10 A.M. - 12:10 P.M. SHADOWLANDS (foreign film, Richard Attenborough)
*Lunch break and registration
1 - 1:15 P.M. AMBULANCIA (short film, Richard Legaspi)
*Registration
1:20 - 2:50 P.M. TRABAHO (full-length feature, Ned Trespeces)
*Registration
3 - 4:15 P.M. ANINO (full-length feature, John Isiah Reyes, UST College of Nursing)
*Registration
4:20 - 4:40 P.M. TUNAY NA BUHAY (documentary, Jasper Chavez Zarzuela)
*Registration
4:50 - 5:20 P.M. LABABO (short film, Seymour Barros Sanchez)
*Registration
5:30 - 7:10 P.M. CHINA CRY (foreign film, James F. Collier)
March 7, Friday
8 - 10 A.M. PAY IT FORWARD (foreign film, Mimi Leder)
*Registration
10:10 - 10:30 A.M. KARSEL (short film, Rianne Hill Soriano)
*Registration
10:40 - 11:10 A.M. TUTOS (short film, Louise Anne Yamsuan)
*Registration
11:15 - 11:45 A.M. UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE (documentary, Anna Isabelle Matutina and Herbert Villalon Docena)
*Lunch break and registration
1 - 2:50 P.M. BARAKO (full-length feature, Manolito Sulit, UST)
*Registration
3:15 - 4:50 P.M. TIRADOR (full-length feature, Brillante Mendoza)
*Registration
5 - 5:30 P.M. SONDA (documentary, UST College of Nursing)
*Registration
5:40 - 7:20 P.M. STILL LIFE (full-length feature, Katski Flores)
CLOSING CEREMONIES
Organized by The Varsitarian, official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, and Institute of Religion in with UST Journalism Society, UST Literary Society, and Concilium Philosophiae
* FREE ADMISSION, but only local films are open to the public
* Registration: first-come, first-served basis (4 classes per film showing)
* 20-30 seats will be reserved for guests and walk-in audiences
* Foreign films are exclusively for UST students, professors, and officials
* Audience for each film are requested to be in the venue 15 minutes before the showing starts (for registration)
* OPEN FORUM for films with attending directors (or cast/crew)
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