Kontra-Agos

A Resistance Films Festival

Robinson's Galleria, IndieSine
Quezon City, The Philppines
December 5-11, 2007

Hilo

Directed By: JP V. Carpio

Originally conceptualized as a short film shot in 2004 and completed nearly three years later as a full length, the film charts the various emotional courses during a dinner between Emerson, a university professor, and Jenny, a university student.

The film also features the full length feature debuts of Jenny Logico and Emerson Sanchez.

Jan Philippe “JP” V. Carpio was born in Makati, Metro Manila and grew up in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.

Returning to Metro Manila for higher education, he first took up B.S. Biology thinking then that he wanted to become a doctor. He eventually shifted and graduated with a degree in Organizational Communication from the University of the Philippines Manila in 2002.

During his stay in Metro Manila he gradually fell into writing and filmmaking. What was then something of interest and leisure, he now calls his “purposes here on Earth”. Largely a self-taught writer and filmmaker, he has also taken workshops under established Filipino film artists like Ricardo Lee and Peque Gallaga.

He has written and directed two feature length films shot on video.

The first in 2000, Girl of My Dreams, was made under the workshop module of the First Filipino Full Length Feature Festival facilitated by Edward Cabagnot of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Media Arts Division.

The second was Balay Dakû in 2002, the first ever full length Ilonggo feature film, produced through a grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and donations from his family.

He is set to premiere several of his new films in 2007 including his third full length film HILO (thread).

Apart from a number of short films, his fourth full length film PALANGGA (the beloved) is currently in post production.

He recently completed his first documentary, the short entitled BUNKER 0: SUMIRIB PLUS, as part of a group of sixteen independent filmmakers invited by the ABC 5 television network and the newly formed Independent Filmmakers’ Cooperative to each shoot a 10 minute short film on the Guimaras Oil Spill Disaster.

Apart from his own films, he also does occasional documentation work of the performances of Dancing Wounded Contemporary Dance Commune.



HILO (thread) - the trailer



THIS IS A PREVIEW OF "PALANGGA" - scheduled for release in 2008/2009