June 3, 2015
If you ask Gilles Garachon, France’s ambassador to the Philippines, Filipino filmmaker Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s “Taklub” should have topped the Un Certain Regard section of the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival.
“It deserved to win,” Garachon told the local media during the press conference for the 20th French Film Festival in Manila.
He hailed the Filipino film’s message as timely. “Taklub” tells the intersecting stories of three survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” which claimed thousands of lives in Western Visayas in 2013. “Taklub” […]
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June 3, 2015
Clothing made from tropical fabrics such as piña and banana is usually used during weddings, baptisms, burials and other special occasions. The Philippine Textile Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PTRI), however, is keen on making tropical fabrics more mainstream.
The establishment of PTRI’s P54-million Innovation Center for Yarns and Textiles (ICYT) is a step closer to this goal. Part of the bigger objective of revitalizing the textile industry in the country, it will produce yarns for the […]
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June 3, 2015
“You can never go wrong with real stories, stories that are coming from the heart, coming from the survivors.”
This was what award-winning director Brillante Mendoza spoke of “Taklub (Trap),” his latest masterpiece that tells the stories of survivors of the strongest typhoon on record to hit the Philippines in November 2013.
Super typhoon Yolanda devastated much of the Visayas region, particularly the Samar and Leyte provinces. It marked a death toll of more than 6,300, according the National Disaster Risk Reduction […]
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