ENTERTAINMENT |
March 16, 2018
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| Sinag Maynila 2018's big winners Joselito Altarejos (Best Director, Tale of the Lost Boys) and Allen Dizon (Best Actor, Bomba) (Image Source: Yummie Dingding/Interaksyon.com) |
Joselito Altarejos' Tale of the Lost Boys and Ralston Mover's Bomba
(The Bomb) were big winners in the awards night of the 2018 Sinag Maynila Film
Festival held last March 11, 2018 at the Conrad Hotel in Manila.
Tale of the Lost Boys, a totally refreshing tale of friendship between
a Filipino mechanic and a Taiwanese aboriginal student, won Best Picture among
the five official entries in the festival's third edition. It also won Best Screenplay,
Best Editing and the Box Office Award. Meanwhile, the story about a deaf trying
to take on the toughest jobs to support himself and his teenage lover won major
awards including Best Director (Ralston Jover), Best Actor (Allen Dizon), and
Best Actress (Angelline Nichole Sanoy) as well as Best Cinematography.
Here is the full list of winners in the Sinag Maynila 2018 awards
night:
Best Picture - Tale of the
Lost Boys
Best Director - Ralston
Jover, Bomba
Best Actor - Allen Dizon,
Bomba
Best Actress - Angelline
Nichole Sanoy, Bomba
Best Cinematography - Pipo
Domagas, Bomba
Best Screenplay - May de los
Santos, Tale of the Lost Boys
Best Editing - Diego Marx
Dobles, Tale of the Lost Boys
Best Production Design -
Batch 1/Richard Somes, El Peste
SM People’s Choice Award -
El Peste
Box Office Award - A Tale of
Lost Boys
Best Musical Score - Fergus
Kronkite, Melodrama/Random/Melbourne!
Best Sound Scoring - Mikko
Quizon, Abomination
Documentary Jury Prize -
Journeyman Finds Home: The Simone Rota Story
Best Documentary - Mahal,
2017, Janine Santos
Best Short Film - The
Duwende, Odin Fernandez
All of Sinag Maynila's official entries this year were screened in
selected SM Cinemas across the Metro from March 7th to the 15th as part of the
Film Development Council of the Philippines' CineLokal project. Those who have
watched any of these entries may still join in on the conversation via social
media using the hashtag #SinagMaynila2018.
