(from Mark Hernandez, TP Class of 2006)
Love it or hate it, we have a Filipino winner at film festival of all film festivals.
At Cannes, director Brillante Mendoza was awarded best director for his dark dark movie, Kinatay.
Kinatay, which translates from Tagalog, into “butchered” is a severely graphic depiction delving into societal corruption.
Mendoza is no rookie to Cannes. Last year, he served us, Serbis, a ground-level look into a family run adult cinema house. That movie polarized audiences last year. It appears, Mendoza turned up a notch this year.
