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[pinoyartist]

Dwein Baltazar is known for the films that she directed and wrote, which are "Oda sa Wala" (2018), "Gusto Kita With All My Hypothalamus" (2018), and "Mamay Umeng" (2012) "Oda Sa Wala," which is co-produced by Black Sheep, has won top prizes at the QCinema International Film Festival, including Best Director, Best Actress for Marietta Sumbong and Best Screenplay in 2018. Dwein Baltazar is also known for writing the box office hit "Exes Baggage" and co-writing "Open," which is an entry to the 3rd Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino. She has also written and directed the iWant series "Past, Perfect Future." PinoyArtist.com aims to help the Filipino culture and arts community by highlighting your struggles to turn isolation to inspiration. How do you keep yourself inspired during pandemic? Feel free to email us at admin@pinoyartist.com to get a chance to be featured! #DweinBaltazar #OdaSaWala #Blacksheep #QCinemaInternationalFilmFestival #BestDirector #BestActress #BestScreenplay #PistangPelikulangPilipino #Exesbaggage #Pinoyartist

[attyvicsimon]

#120BattementsParMinute or #120BeatsPerMinute winner of Grand Prix (2nd Best Film) at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 and official entry of #France to Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film 2018 is the 2-hour and 20-minute long chronicle of the activities in France in the late 1980s of ACT UP, the confrontational direct-action movement that demanded immediate, large-scale research into AIDS. This film uses elegy, tragedy, and defiant euphoria scored with upbeat techno dance music to depict its mostly HIV-positive members as they debate provocative courses of actions and implement them to force the government to speed up the search for effective AIDS treatment.  As seen from the eyes of Nathan (Arnaud Valois), a new member but  HIV-negative, who is attracted to Sean (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), a smart, outspoken, and dying veteran of the cause, the ACT UP members are vividly humanized.  For most people in their twenties, death is so far away. But for Sean, his gay generation, and for ACT UP in 1980s, mortality, illness, and death are urgent facts of life that they had to confront, without help from the government and the pharma companies. This film is appropriately titled as it records the characters' heartbeats while they cling desperately to life of action. I watched this long film after #TheKillingOfASacredDeer so I was a bit tired but it managed to keep me awake with its sincere and realistic depiction of its characters' will to live. 😎👌😘 #QCinema #QCinemaInternationalFilmFestival #Gateway  #TravelViaFilm #Film #Travel #AuthenticTravel  #TravelMindset #Backpacking  #follow4follow #like4like (at QCinema)

[attyvicsimon]

#TomOfFinland is the biopic of Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang), a closeted gay decorated military officer who returns to Finland after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II. Life in post-war Helsinki, however, proves equally distressing for him as he finds rampant homophobic persecution where same sex relationship is illegal and gay men are being pressured to seek medical treatment, marry women, and have children. His younger sister Kaija (Jessica Grabowsky), an illustrator at an advertising agency, helps him land a job there to keep him busy but at night, he is tormented by the memory of the anonymous muscular and mustachioed Russian paratrooper who he stabbed to death during the war. He initially tries to draw the said soldier in pencil, nicknamed him "Keka" (beautiful), makes Keka his muse in numerous drawings, and later discovers refuge and solace in drawing other muscular and well-endowed men attired in military uniforms and leather jackets doing homoerotic acts. To protect himself from the authorities, he signs his drawings with the name "Tom" the English equivalent of his name Touko. His drawings eventually gain huge popularity abroad, particularly in the USA, where a publisher accidentally gives him the monicker "Tom of Finland." For such a rebellious icon of the gay underground community who inspires free pursuit of hedonistic pleasures, this biopic appears mainstream, sexually sanitized, and straight-forward. Perhaps the filmmakers are hoping for a wide mainstream audience. But in doing so, they lost a great opportunity to show  Laaksonen as a boundary-breaking artist in the gay cultural landscape. 😎👌😘 #QCinema #QCinemaInternationalFilmFestival #Gateway  #TravelViaFilm #Film #Travel #AuthenticTravel  #TravelMindset #Backpacking  #follow4follow #like4like (at QCinema)

[attyvicsimon]

#LovingVincent is the wonderful portrait of the great Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh that is considered the first entirely oil-painted animation film in history. 65,000 frames of this film were handpainted with oil paints to imitate his style — with the effect of pulling the viewers into his delirious, hyper-sensual world of swirling and vibrant golds, ochres, and cornflower blues as seen from his masterpieces.  Most people know that van Gogh cut off his own ear, but fewer know the precise circumstances of his death. In 1890, while staying in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, the tormented artist died of complications of gunshot wound to the stomach. He is reported to have taken credit for shooting himself,  but there have always been doubts: Was he covering for someone else? This film, set 12 months after his death, tries to pierce the cause of his death. Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), who sat for several van Gogh portraits and the son of a local postman, is given the job of posthumously delivering a letter from van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to his brother, Theo, only to discover that Theo too has died. Armand thus becomes passionate to know how does van Gogh go from being absolutely calm to suicidal? He  interviews anyone who might have insight into the master's death. The film presents the master as a complex and nuanced tortured artist, withholding a clear view of him until the very end, which reinforces the idea that we can only truly understand him through the work he left behind. Anyway, the film's title refers to van Gogh's habit of ending his letters with the words "Your loving Vincent."😎👌😘 #QCinema #QCinemaInternationalFilmFestival #QuezonCityInternationalFilmFest #Gateway  #TravelViaFilm #Film #Travel #AuthenticTravel  #TravelMindset #Backpacking  #follow4follow #like4like (at QCinema)

[attyvicsimon]

Attending #QCinema #QCinemaInternationalFilmFestival at #Gateway last Saturday 😎👌😘 #TravelViaFilm #Film #Travel #AuthenticTravel #TravelMindset #Backpacking #TravelInspiration #follow4follow #like4like #instamood #atm #photooftheday (at Gateway Cinema Araneta, Cubao)

[attyvicsimon]

Attending #QCinema #QCinemaInternationalFilmFestival at #Gateway last Saturday 😎👌😘 #TravelViaFilm #Film #Travel #AuthenticTravel #TravelMindset #Backpacking #TravelInspiration #follow4follow #like4like #instamood #atm #photooftheday (at Gateway Cinema Araneta, Cubao)