Award-winning television, theater and movie actress Shamaine Centenera Buencamino is one of the members of the jury of the 2023 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc, as announced by the CCP Corporate Communications.
According to the arts and culture state agency Publicity Department, Shamaine will be joined by other illustrious names in the film business, locally and internationally.
The other members of the grand jury of the full-length features and short films are prizewinning cinematographer Neil Daza, indie director and visual artist Raya Martin, festival programmer Park Sungho and film producer-curator Lorna Tee.
Sharmaine won Best Supporting Actress in the 2011 Cinemalaya in the film “Niño” directed by Loy Arcenas while Neil is a decorated photographer of films like “Dekada ’70,” “Feng Shui,” “Badil,” “Bwaya,” “Signal Rock,” “Oda sa Wala (Ode To Nothing),” “Fan Girl” and “About Us But Not About Us,” ones of the featured exhibition films this year.
Raya is a class of his own having done several exceptional movies like “Independencia” and “Manila” which were screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2009 while Park studied editing at the Cinematography Department at Chung-Ang University. He worked full-time for the Busan International Film Festival from 2007 to 2013 where he served as program coordinator for Asian cinema and manager for the Asian Film Academy.
Meanwhile, Lorna has been producing her films and series for an international audience through Paperheart, her Malaysian production company and Amsterdam-based film company An Original Picture. She is a multi-awarded director who earned the Filmmaker of the Year award from the Chinese Film Association of Malaysia in 2021 and was listed in The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen Asia: Class of 2010.
The 2023 Cinemalaya runs from August 4 to 13 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez (Black Box Theater) of CCP and selected Ayala Malls’ cinemas.
Photo Caption: Shamaine Centenera Buencamino (Photo Credit: Shamaine Centenera Buencamino's Facebook)
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