10 Philippine Showbiz Today
March 8 - 21, 2019
Jan. 22-Feb.7, 2015
39th Fantasporto Filmfest
Dante Rivero, Ai-Ai delas Alas, Ina Raymundo
earn acting awards in 2019 Portugal film fest
It was a great victory for the
Philippines during the recently
concluded Fantasporto 2019.
Four films of the 2018
Cinemalaya
Philippine
Independent
Film
Festival
were able to bring honor to the
country during the 39th edition
of the Oporto International Film
Festival.
Ina Raymundo and Ai-Ai
delas Alas tied with each other as
Best Actress winners in the film
fest held in Oporto, Portugal from
February 22 to March 2.
Ina was recognized for her
2018
film Kuya
Cinemalaya
Wes while Ai-Ai won for the drama
film School Service.
Directed
by
Louie
Ignacio, School Service also took
home the Orient Express Special
Jury Award. The film, which also
gave Ai-Ai her Cinemalaya Best
Actress trophy last year, is a drama
about Filipino children begging in
the streets of Manila.
This can be considered
Ai-Ai’s third international Best
Actress trophy. In 2017, she
was named Best Actress for her
film Area during the 2017 AIFFA
(ASEAN International Film Festival
and Awards) held in Sarawak,
Malaysia. She also bagged the
Best Female Actor award at the
2017 Queens World Film Festival
in New York.
In her Instagram account, Ai-Ai
dedicated her triumph to her “pogi”
and “mabait” husband Gerald.
The GMA-7 actress wrote:
AWARD
(
PORTUGAL)..
for the best actress award
maraming maraming salamat ..
“nais kong i share ang award na
ito sa aking mga co actors sa
pelikulang SCHOOL SERVICE ...
sa aking peborit director at ang
maswerteng ka tandem ko pag
gumagawa kami ng movie DIREK
LOUI IGNACIO ... salamat ferdie
lapuz at dennis evangelista tita
baby go forproducing this film
BG PRODUCTIONS) at sa aking
pamilya at mga anak SANCHO
SHAUN SOPHIA ANDREI AND
SAILOR--- “sa aking pogi ar
mabait na asawa GERALD ( mahal
ko kayo kaya ko binubuhos ang
powers ko para sa inyo hehe)..
at sa lahat ng nanood nito at
manonood pa ... and also congrats
din sa ka tie ko na si ms ina
raymundo @inaraymundo95..@
“MAGANDANG
UMAGA direklouieignacio
@gerald_
AT NAPAKAGANDANG GISING sibayan
@sanchovito
@
... una sa lahat maraming sophdelasalas
@spuppies10
salamat sa atung mahal na #shaunnicolo @bgproductions_
ina MAMA MARY AND SA bgp .. TO GOD BE THE GLORY
ATING BUTIHING AMA LORD AMEN!!!!!”
MARAMING SALAMAT PO SA
As for Dante, this is his first
NAPAKA GANDANG BLESSINGS international recognition, after
NA ITO SA 2019 ... and thank many decades of working in the
YOU very much FANTASPORTO Philippine movie industry.
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The veteran Pinoy thespian
grabbed the Best Actor plum
for his poignant performance
in Carlo Enciso Catu’s Kung
Paano
Hinihintay
Ang
Dapithapon (Waiting For Sunset).
This film also won the Special
Jury Prize in the Director’s Week
competition (non-genre official
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