Digital Dreams
Davao Today contributor Alberto P. Egot Jr. and his team at Durian Cinema are some of the city?s ?guerilla filmmakers.? Here, he tells us what it was like to make a film for the first time.
An exciting experiment: Members of the Durian Cinema team shooting a Badjao community in Davao. (Photo courtesy of Durian Cinema)
‘Huling Baylan ng Buhi’
“Huling Baylan ng Buhi,” a digital film by independent Davao filmmaker Sherad Anthony Sanchez, won four major awards at the recent Cinema One Originals competition in Manila. Here are pictures of the awards ceremony, courtesy of Dr. Jelieta Ruca, one of the members of the cast.
Kadayawan 2006
Davao City just concluded its 21st Kadayawan festival, a celebration of what the city and the region have to offer to the world. (davaotoday.com photos by Barry Ohaylan)
Sixteen years ago, Carlo Perez, then an 11-year-old boy, got hooked on kites. Today, he has turned his passion into a booming business. And while more and more kids are turning to computer games for amusement, Carlo remains devoted to his kites. The day he lets go of the string, he says, is the day he lets go of his dreams.
By Jeffrey B. Javier
davaotoday.com
Photos by Barry Ohaylan
DAVAO CITY ? Carlito ?Carlo? Perez kicks up some dust as he brushes past the children toward the center of the oval field of the Davao City National High School (DCNHS).
“It is good,” he remarks as he looks up at the clear, blue, afternoon sky and feels the strong summer breeze. It is the first time Carlo’s Kite, the kite shop Carlo owns on V. Mapa Street, to hold a seminar workshop on kite-making. He is afraid that it will end with dark clouds hanging over us, literally. The weather has not been good for the past days. Even if the weather forecasts promised sunny days, the climate here in Davao has been unpredictable.
As Carlo fixes the contraption he carries, the children gather around him with wide eyes and eager curiosity. The workshop participants are children of Baranggay 10-A, the barangay (village) in which the shop is located. They have been waiting for Carlo to build his great kite. As Carlo finishes assembling the kite, he points out its different parts: the skeleton made of carbon fiber plastic, the leaf or the body made of taffeta, and the nylon string that, as if telling the kids, lets you hold on to your dreams.
Carlo, 27, considers every kite he makes a dream.