Filipino indie film wins top prize at the Female Eye Film Festival 2015 in Toronto, Canada
by Leony Garcia
The official facebook account of “K’na the Dreamweaver” announces the good news for the Pinoy indie film:
“K’na wins Best of Show, the top prize at the Female Eye Film Festival 2015 in Toronto, Canada!
Thank you to all those who supported the film and thank you to the Female Eye Film Festival and to all the inspiring women filmmakers who were part of it.”
You can still catch a screening of “K’na the Dreamweaver”:
MANILA (CCP Dream Theater) June 23-26
NEW YORK (The Producer’s Club) June 26-July 2
The Female Eye Film Festival is an international film festival based in Toronto featuring films by women around the world. It is Canada’s only competitive international women directors’ festival. Founded by Leslie Ann Coles, it has been running for 14 years. Best of Show is the category that accepts all genres and lengths of film, the most coveted award in the festival.
“K’na the Dreamweaver” is about the journey of a T’boli princess into womanhood amidst the struggle of their tribe to find peace with a historic enemy. The movie takes you on a breathtaking visual tour of South Cotabato and intricately shares the story of the T’boli tribe and their masterful tradition of handweaving.
Filmed entirely in one of the barangays in Lake Sebu and in T’boli dialect, it won the Special Jury Award under the New Breed Category and Best Production Design (by Toym Imao) at the 2014 Cinemalaya Film Festival.
Del Mundo, who “represented the T’bolis and the Philippines”, personally received the prestigious award in the Canadian film festival.
K’na the Dreamweaver is also slated to be shown at the Aichi Women’s Film Festival in Nagoya, Japan. Special screenings are also scheduled in Amman, Jordan; and in Texas and Chicago, USA. It will have a theatrical release in New York starting June 26.
From the Philippine Showbiz Republic (PSR), Congratulations to Ms. Ida Del Mundo, film writer and director of “K’na The Dreamweaver”!
