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Article: Multi-awarded short filmmaker makes feature film debut.(Showbiz)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- November 13, 2009
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Milo Tolentino, whose eight short films have won awards, makes his feature film debut via “Si Baning, si Maymay at ang Asong si Bobo,” an entry to CinemaOne Originals Digital Film Festival that will premiere on Nov. 14 at the Gateway Cineflex 10 in Cubao, Quezon City.“I would like to make a film that celebrates the playful and generous spirit of a Filipino child as well as pay tribute to the often colorful, crude tapestry of an impoverished but proud rural Filipino family,” he says of his first full-length movie which will have another screening on Nov. 17.It tells the story of six-year-old Baning whose desire to learn her ABCs leads her to lessons ...