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Cinemalaya 2008: Jay Wins!

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Cinemalaya 2008 is over, and Jay has just been declared Best Picture, its lead actor Baron Geisler, Best Actor.

[In the photo above, Baron Geisler with Jay co-actor, Coco Martin. Photo from Baron's Multiply site.]

From Gibbs Cadiz:

“Jay… (is) for me the unexpected triumph of the festival. Thank God for a movie like this–something long overdue given the insidious pervasiveness of our vapid TV culture. Spare, deadpan, brutally hilarious, Jay comments on–nay, eviscerates–the sheer artificiality and untruth of so-called reality television. And it does this without raising a voice–or, rather, without its damn good lead actor, Baron Geisler, doing so.

“Playing a sweetly manipulative TV reporter who’d do anything, including re-creating scenes of genuine tragedy, to get his story, Geisler paces through his chores with nary a flutter of his gay character’s well-scrubbed hands. He keeps everything soft-spoken, low-key, and yet by the end he conveys, with enormous power, the monstrous deceit of his actions. That precise, economical performance becomes the unblinking insider’s eye that lets us take a peek at the fraudulent myth-making he creates for our tawdry consumption.”

I am sure Jay will get a more commercial screening run (UP Sched below)… watch out for it. I highly recommend it!

And I think Baron Geisler is really deserving to win the Best Actor trophy… go to Baron’s Multiply site and drop him a congratulatory note!

Sched of Cinemalaya films at UP Cine Adarna:

Monday, July 28
5 pm BABY ANGELO by Joel Ruiz / Abi Aquino
7 pm CONCERTO by Paul Alexander Y. Morales

Tuesday, July 29
5 pm JAY by Francis Xavier E. Pacion
7 pm HULING PASADA by Paul P. Sta. Ana

Wednesday, July 30
5 pm BRUTUS by Tara Illenberger
7 pm NAMETS by Emilio “Jay” Abello VI

Thursday, July 31
5 pm 100 by Christopher D. Martinez
7 pm MY FAKE AMERICAN ACCENT by Onnah C. Valera/Ned Trespeces

Monday, Aug 4
5 pm BOSES by Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil / Froi Medina
7 pm RANCHERO by Michael Cardoz

Tuesday, Aug 5
5 pm SHORTS A
7 pm SHORTS B

Wednesday, Aug 6
5 pm BRUTUS by Tara Illenberger
7 pm JAY by Francis Xavier E. Pacion