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Award-winning Pinoy film ‘El Presidente’ to open New York filmfest April 5
The award-winning Filipino epic “El Presidente,” a biopic based on the life of the first president of the Philippine Republic, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, will open this year’s SoHo International Film Festival NYC (SIFFNYC) on April 5 (Friday), with its stars led by Cesar Montano and Baron Geisler, and director-writer Mark Meily gracing the opening.
“El Presidente’s” screening time is 5 p.m., following a red carpet arrival with the cast and crew at 4:30 p.m.
The annual festival will be held at Sunshine Cinema at 143 East Houston in Manhattan, from April 5 to 11, with the awards night for the competing films slated on April 12.
Jorge Ballos, founder and president of SIFFNYC announced that 17 feature films, six documentaries and 48 short films are participating from the United States, Canada, India, Germany, South Korea and the Philippines, among other countries.
“The festival has definitely become bigger on its fourth year with selected entries coming from Asia, North America and Europe,” said Ballos.
The opening film, “El Presidente,” is top billed by Jeorge E.R. Estregan in the
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Being a history buff, I really made time to watch "El Presidente," an entry in the 2012 Metro Manila Film Fest about the President of the First Philippine Republic, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. It is about time that that era in Philippine History was given a definitive movie rendition. I had high hopes about this film, since producer Laguna Gov. Jeorge "E.R." Ejercito (as Jeorge ER Estregan) gave us a very well-made biopic of gangster Asiong Salonga in last year's MMFF. It had not been easy to find time to watch since this film had a formidable running time of two hours and thirty minutes.
Because of a very slow line at the ticket counter, it was so annoying that I got a seat already 10 or so minutes into film. Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo (Estregan) and his generals were about to launch an attack to take over the town of Cavite Viejo. From there, it follows the life of Aguinaldo, from the events leading up to the declaration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898, to his capture in Palanan by the Americans, up to his death at the age of 94 in the year 1964. The battle scenes were very well shot with a huge cast of real extras playing the soldiers of all nationalities.
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