Filipino movies to watch in Sydney Film Festival

Foster Child :: Photo, Sydney Film Festival

FILIPINO AUSTRALIANS will be treated to two of Brillante ‘Dante’ Mendoza’s films, featured in the upcoming Sydney Film Festival. The timing is perfect. The selected screening dates coincide with the observance of Philippine National Day (110th year of Philippine Independence).

The films, Foster Child and Slingshot, will be screened on 11-12 June at the State Theatre, Greater Union George Street and Dendy Opera Quays cinemas in Sydney.

Foster Child, starring Eugene Domingo, Jiro Manio and Kier Alonzo, is the story of an abandoned three-year-old boy John-John who was provided a foster home by the impoverished family. While motivated in part by the subsidy this brings them, the genuine emotional connections each family member has established with the child are brought to the fore when the child has been removed from their care for international adoption. Slingshot with Jiro Manio, Kristoffer King, Coco Martin, Nathan Lopez and Jaclyn Jose is Mendoza’s sixth directorial feature film in two years. The opening scenes of Slingshot have cameras panning onto a Manila slum, hot on the heels of a police raid.

Both films are in Tagalog.

Screening details: 11 June (Foster Child, State Theatre, 11.45am; Slingshot, Greater Union George Street, 7.45pm); 12 June (Foster child, GU George Street, 6.15pm; Slingshot, Dendy Opera Quays, 2.00pm).

For more information, visit the Sydney Film Festival website at sydneyfilmfestival.org. The film festival runs 4-22 June.

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