01/08/2015
Mga Silingan! Our special screenings of the indie short film on IP education "Pahiyum ni Boye" in partnership with Rise for Education Alliance and Save Our Schools Network today HAS BEEN MOVED to Wednesday, August 5, 2015.
First screening with forum - 5:00pm
Second screening with forum - 6:00pm
Pahiyum ni Boye (2014)
Written and Directed by Hugh Montero
Trailer:
https://www.facebook.com/744114518999341/videos/vb.744114518999341/744629298947863/?type=2&theater
A child’s smile is one of the most natural things in this world. One sees it everywhere: at home, in the streets, in school, in the mountains. Where children are, smiles should abound. When it is missing then, much like when one feels disturbed by a silent child, one always feels the loss and one strives to bring it back.
In “Pahiyum ni Boye,” a little Manobo girl loses her smile when she found out that she will need to stop school because her family has to work harder to get food on the table. Education is a need so simple yet has such profound effects when fulfilled, and even more when not. Boye and her family knows this and they had to choose to fulfill the need for food for the body rather than that for the soul. This creates a gentle yet persistent emptiness in one’s guts as Boye longingly looks at the school being constructed by the community or when her mother lovingly cleans her medals. One also feels for the father who looks on both, and on their family’s difficulties, stoically.
Eventually, the smile returns but the story does not stop there. The film shifts the smile of a child to that of a community, a people. Education has always been a people’s dream, not just to achieve a more comfortable life, rather, towards developing themselves as a people. Here, it is the Manobo, an indigenous group, of Compostela Valley. The people found out that they themselves would need to make this dream a reality with the help of sympathetic people also from the lowlands. In the end, a fire is lit and everyone is called upon to keep the light burning and to keep the children’s smiles from dimming. # # #
Pahiyum ni Boye Cast and Crew
Director: Hugh Montero
Assistant Director: Christine Lim
Director of Photography: Willie Apa Jr.
Production Designer: Bagwani Amplayo
Production Manager: Irene Monsanto
Sound Gaffer: Raleon Monsanto
Editor: Willie Apa Jr.
Starring
Mayla Dumala
Joan Mantikinon
Sanny Guimboloy
Rina Guimboloy
Datu Serano Mambay-an
Sabil Laquina
Official Entry/Nomination/Awards
- Best in Sound, Willie Apa Jr. at the Nabunturan Indie Film Exhibition 2 (October 2014)
- Best Director, Hugh Montero at the Nabunturan Indie Film Exhibition 2 (October 2014)
- Official entry for 10th Mindanao Film Festival (December 2014)
- Best Musical Score at the 10th Mindanao Film Festival (December 2014)
- Best Production design at the 10th Mindanao Film festival (December 2014)
- Nominee for Best Film at Lantawan Socksargen Film Festival (January 2015)
