Khavn de la Cruz’s Overdosed Nightmare and Ultimo @ Cinemalaya

Khavn de la Cruz’s films will be featured during the following Cinemalaya screenings :

Overdosed Nightmare

July 15 – 9pm Tanghalang Manuel Conde , CCP

“Overdosed Nightmare” is Kidlat Tahimik’s “Perfumed Nightmare” without the perfume, a pure nightmare set in wounded Manila, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus. A gang of rat-munching, homophobic bums kill the night clumsily. Jesus H. Christ gets crucified for the nth time in Dagger Island. A greaseman, the image model for Poverty, bums around the Edsa Revolution anniversary which ousts another corrupt president, Estrada the actor. And Tony D., the shrewd short-fused citizen of the Philippine ghetto, sets his sights on foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America's grandeur at the expense of Third World inequity.

Running time: 80min

CAST AND CREW

MARVIN AGUSTIN as Tony De Instituto
BON REYES as Tony Gooseman
BUCCINO DE OCAMPO as Tony Greaseman

DAVE KAHN as Steve Banners

Directed, Written, & Produced by KHAVN
Based on NORMAN WILWAYCO’s Institute Of Poets
Edited by LAWRENCE S. ANG (with Genghis Jimenez)
Cinematography by ALBERT BANZON, ALMA DELA PENA, KHAVN
Additional Footage by RAUL FUNILAS
Music by DELAKRUS, TENGAL, ARVIE BARTOLOME, ASCARIS, AUTOCEREMONY, BLEND:ER, BLUMS BORRES, CHILDREN OF CATHODE RAY, CONSCRIPT, EAT TAE, ELEMENTO, FOODSHELTER&CLOTHING, INCONNU ICTU, INSOMNIA, NASAL POLICE, POW MARTINEZ, TERESA BARROZO

Watch the trailer on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuK0akJqSOo

ULTIMO: Distintas Maneras De Matar Un Heroe Nacional with Live Score

July 19 –9pm Tanghalang Huseng Batute , CCP

Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematographer: Khavn

Editor: Lawrence Ang

Music: Junji Lerma

Cast: Celia Blanco & Festivalito La Palma Actors

Length: 89 minutes

Synopsis:

The Spanish section of Khavn's "Silent Black Trilogy",

ULTIMO is an abstract meditation on

Philippine-Hispanic relations. Mixing high & low

cinematic aesthetics, the film is composed of ordinary

images from present-day Spain juxtaposed with the last

poem that Philippine national hero Jose Rizal wrote

before he was executed by the Spanish Government back

in 1896. A haunting post-kundiman (Spanish-influence

Philippine ballad) score by guitarist and banduria

player Junji Lerma accompanies the film.

Watch the Ultimo trailer on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyPQwAwXIJY

Khavn De La Cruz is a filmmaker, musician and writer who has won numerous awards both here and abroad. His current films will be featured at the Paris Cinema International Film Festival (France), Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (India), Motovun Film Festival (Croatia) & Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia&Herzegovina) this July and August. His “ Philippine Bliss” will also be featured at the UP Vargas Museum on July 15 530pm For more information, contact oracafe@rocketmail.com, bien@bannedmoviespilipinas.com or visit www.khavndelacruz.com.