OFW in Saudi Arabia is four-time Cinemanila winner
10/27/2009 | 07:07 PM
Christopher Gozum, a videographer for a government hospital in Saudi Arabia, has bagged a total four awards from the prestigious Cinemanila International Film Festival, with his latest one for best director.
Gozum, a 32-year-old native of Pangasinan, won the Lino Brocka Best Director and Grand Prize awards for his film Anacbanua(The Child of the Sun) during the closing ceremony of the festival on Sunday.
Aside from being honored after the late acclaimed Filipino director, Gozum will receive a cash prize worth P250,000.
Gozum had been working in Riyadh for several years when he saw the opportunity to join the Cinemanila festival in 2007.
His 2007 entry, The Calling, about Filipino migrant workers in South Korea, bagged the Best Short Film category.
The following year, he bagged the Ishmael Bernal Award for Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui, tan kaamong ya makaiiliw ed sika. Gurgurlis ed banua (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a mother, a sister, and a wife who longs for you : Landscape with figures).
In this short experimental film based on a Pangasinan-language translation of the Filipino-American writer and activist Carlos Bulosan’s poem Landscape with Figures, Bulosan captures images representing the poem’s theme using only his mobile phone and microscope video cameras.
Gozum graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communications with a bachelor’s degree in Film Audiovisual Communication. He won two Palanca Awards for Literature in 2001 and 2002 for his two full-length plays War Booty and The Pasyon of Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Colorum Uprising of 1931. - Joseph Holandes Ubalde, GMANews.TV
Gozum, a 32-year-old native of Pangasinan, won the Lino Brocka Best Director and Grand Prize awards for his film Anacbanua(The Child of the Sun) during the closing ceremony of the festival on Sunday.
Aside from being honored after the late acclaimed Filipino director, Gozum will receive a cash prize worth P250,000.
Gozum had been working in Riyadh for several years when he saw the opportunity to join the Cinemanila festival in 2007.
His 2007 entry, The Calling, about Filipino migrant workers in South Korea, bagged the Best Short Film category.
The following year, he bagged the Ishmael Bernal Award for Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui, tan kaamong ya makaiiliw ed sika. Gurgurlis ed banua (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a mother, a sister, and a wife who longs for you : Landscape with figures).
In this short experimental film based on a Pangasinan-language translation of the Filipino-American writer and activist Carlos Bulosan’s poem Landscape with Figures, Bulosan captures images representing the poem’s theme using only his mobile phone and microscope video cameras.
Gozum graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communications with a bachelor’s degree in Film Audiovisual Communication. He won two Palanca Awards for Literature in 2001 and 2002 for his two full-length plays War Booty and The Pasyon of Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Colorum Uprising of 1931. - Joseph Holandes Ubalde, GMANews.TV
