Bagane Fiola
Bagane Fiola is a filmmaker from Mindanao, in southern Philippines. His second feature film Baboy Halas (Wailings in the Forest) was selected under the Bright Future non-competition section of the 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017. It won the NETPAC Jury Prize award during its World Premiere at the QCinema International Film Festival held in Manila Philippines in 2016. The film was given a Special Newcomer Award at the Internationales Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany in October 2017. Fiola is the founder and festival director of the Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival Davao, the first fantastic film festival of its kind in the Philippines. His previous works include the film Sonata Maria, which won Best First Film at the Young Critics Circle of the Philippines 2014, and several short films, which have been exhibited in various regional film festivals.
– from Kaleido Asia Collaborative Film Program Southeast Asia and Japan 2018 by Jay Rosas
Origane Films
ORIGANE Films is an independent film production based in Davao City. Created more than ten years ago, it has already produced 5 narrative short films: Cricket (2011) and Ngilngig Stories (2010); 2 feature films: Way to the Sunset (2009) and Sonata Maria (2015); and numerous experimental films, independently developed in Davao City. Origane Films has also been showcased in film festivals including Mindanao Film Festival, Cinemarehiyon, Salamindanaw International Film Festival, and Binisaya Film festival.
Works of Bagane Fiola
Sonata Maria
A story of loss, madness and redemption set in a modern day landscape of Davao City, and adapting a surrealist vibe, it is an intellectual treat, a visual poetry and music for the lost soul.
Sonata Maria is a psychological drama-cum-love story of a day in the lives of twenty-something former bandmates who reconnect after years of estrangement. Ramon Bonifacio, a call center agent who shares the same birthday with Andres Bonifacio, navigates reality and fantasy as he comes to terms with his existential crisis and his suppressed affection for Maria, his former bandmate.
Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival
Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival Davao is an annual showcase of films that explores the myriad meanings of the “ngilngig”—a common Bisaya expression for something that is “kuyaw” (fantastic) or for something that elicits horror or alluding to the macabre.
From what used to be a horror-genre festival, Ngilngig Festival has expanded its scope to become the first fantastic film festival of its kind in Southeast Asia, extending the reach to other neighboring countries’ “ngilngig” and fantastic films that are significant with our own ways of telling stories to promote and preserve our myths, traditions, history and culture into cinematic form.
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