2nd Metro Manila Christian Film Festival: Call for Submissions

The Union Church of Manila (UCM) is pleased to extend an open invitation to Filmmakers to submit their Christian films to the 2nd Metro Manila Christian Film Festival (MMCFF) slated on November 3-7, 2009. It is currently accepting submissions for all categories in film and video (including music videos). The Festival is seeking films which express our Christian faith through focusing on at least one of the persons of the Trinity (i.e., God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit).

This Festival seeks to honor Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and in the process, recognize filmmakers whose projects expound on Christian teachings and advancing Christian values and integrity through the medium of film. The Festival will be a celebration of the artistic gifts of Christian filmmakers not only in the Philippines, but possibly in other parts of the world.

The Festival encourages independent filmmakers, as well as students and amateurs to submit their films and video productions to the Festival and be given the opportunity to be specially recognized through the “Gideon’s Flame Award”. It will also exhibit educational, inspirational and empowering films.

For more information, please visit their website at http://www.mmcff.ws or email library@unionchurch.ph. You may also visit their office at Union Church of Manila located at Rada corner Legaspi Streets, Legaspi Village, Makati City.

PETA offers free tickets to 20 bloggers

From Scratching on the Glass:

In connection with the opening of its latest production, “Noli at Fili Dekada 2000 (Dos Mil),” PETA is inviting bloggers to watch its performances for free.

Bloggers need to send their names, contact numbers and a link to their sample blog to petampro@yahoo.com. PETA will choose the top 20 bloggers, who will be notified by e-mail.

The lucky bloggers chosen will get a chance to watch “Noli at Fili Dekada 2000 (Dos Mil)” for free, on the condition they write a review of the play to avail of the season pass.

Backstage passes, special house seats and an exclusive interview with the director and cast of PETA’s productions are also up for grabs.

The season’s line-up of plays includes, aside from “Noli at Fili,” “Ismail at Isabel,” a play about children’s rights written by Rody Vera and directed by Maribel Legarda (August 28-October 4), and “Boto,” musical comedy on Philippine Elections written by award-winning librettist Vince de Jesus together with Liza Magtoto and Anj Heruela and directed by Phil Noble (February 5-March 7, 2010).

Deadline for applications is on July 26, 2009. For inquiries, contact PETA Marketing at 4100821, 7256244, 0917-8044428, petampro@yahoo.com or www.petatheater.com

UBOD Writers Series 2009 Announces Call for Submissions

The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the National Committee on Literary Arts (NCLA) and the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practice (AILAP) are now accepting manuscripts for the UBOD series 2009. 12 writers who have not released book-length titles will be given a chance to have their first book published under UBOD New Authors Series.

Four manuscripts written in four languages of each of the three major Philippine Island groups: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will be chosen. The manuscript should be 40-60 pages in chapbook length. 20-40 poems or 5-10 short fiction. The most exceptional pieces in their manuscript shall be translated into Filipino or English.

Send two copies of the manuscript to the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practice (AILAP) c/o The Department of Filipino, 3rd Floor Dela Costa Bldg., School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108. Include a CD of the manuscript and one page curriculum vitae with the author’s name, contact number and e-mail address and 1X1 picture.

Deadline will be on Aug. 15, 2009.

For inquiries, please e-mail ailap@admu.edu.ph or at call 426-6001 loc. 5320-5321.

Tulaa sa Tren Poetry Writing Contest

The National Book Development Board (NBDB), Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), Vibal Foundation, and Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) are giving aspiring poets a chance to have their poems posted in LRT trains as part of the Tulaan sa Tren readership promotion campaign.

Rules and guidelines:

1. The contest is open from 22 June 2009 until 22 July 2009 to all Filipino citizens of all ages.

2. The NBDB will accept original, unpublished poems with the theme Journeys/Paglalakbay. Entries may be in English, Filipino, or any of the regional languages (with English or Tagalog translation if written in a regional language) and should be up to 200 words long. Only one (1) poem per author will be accepted.

3. The Board of Judges will select three (3) winners each for the English and Filipino categories. For each category, the Grand Prize winner will receive P5,000.00, second prize winner will receive P3,000.00, and third prize winner will receive P2,000.00. Winning entries will be posted in LRT trains alongside the works of established Filipino poets and will be published in a compilation of Tulaan sa Tren 2 poems. The NBDB shall share copyright with the authors for their winning poems for purposes of broadcast and/or publication in the NBDB’s readership campaigns.

4. Entries must be submitted along with the Official Entry Form. The author’s name and address must only appear in the Official Entry Form and must not appear on the entry. Entries may be e-mailed to tulaansatren@nbdb.gov.ph or sent postmarked no later than July 22, 2009 to:

Office of the Executive Director
National Book Development Board
2/F NPO Bldg.
EDSA cor. NIA Northside Road
Diliman, Quezon City

5. The winners will be contacted by the NBDB prior to the launch of Tulaan sa Tren 2 and will be awarded during the project launch tentatively set in August.

Entry forms may be downloaded on the NBDB website (www.nbdb.gov.ph)

ANI 35 Anthology (Asia Issue): A Call for Submissions

Poems and prose by Filipinos embodying their vision of an Asian community. Works must tackle or depict how Filipinos relate or interact with Asian culture/s similar or different from their own Philippine culture. Translation into Filipino of Asian poetry is accepted. In case of translated works, it is understood that the contributor has secured the permission of the copyright owner of the original work.

Contributions may be in Filipino, English or any Philippine language with an accompanying translation in Filipino or English.

The CCP Literary Arts Division is accepting works which must be typed double-spaced on 8 1/2” x 11” and sent to aniyearbook@yahoo.com. They should be accompanied with a 5-sentence paragraph about the author. Deadline of submission is July 31, 2009.

For further information, contact the CCP Literary Arts Division,
4/F Tanghalang Pambansa, Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex,
Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City.
Telephone Number 832-1125 loc. 1706, 1707.
E-mail: aniyearbook@yahoo.com.
FAX No. 8330267.

Angelo Suarez To Hold Poetry Lecture

From Juan Panitikan:

Angelo Suarez will hold a lecture entitled "That's My Type: Poetry and Intermedia." This will be on August 22, 2009 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the National Bookstore in Glorietta 5. The third in a five-lecture series celebrating Pinoypoets' fifth year, this lecture by poet Angelo Suarez talks about the relationship between poetry and intermedia.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Please direct inquiries to mail@pinoypoets.com.

Obverse Issue One: A Call for Submissions

From Juan Panitikan:

Pinoypoets is calling for submissions for the inaugural issue of Obverse, its online literary journal. The focus of issue one is collaborative poetry. We invite you to submit collaborative poems or essays on the said subject. Send poems and essays, with process notes and a brief author profile to obverse@pinoypoets.com. The deadline is September 30, 2009.

For more information visit: http://www.pinoypoets.com
or http://www.pinoypoets.com/journal.php?id=5vz7y8s2260k289