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Cathy enters Big Brother Finland

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PBB welcomes guest housemate from Finland

Straight from Big Brother Finland, sexy Estonian-born Kattlin Laas will be arriving to Manila tomorrow (October 31) for the Big Swap of Pinoy Big Brother Double Up on ABS-CBN.

Despite weather forecasts about a coming storm, Big Brother is pushing through with one of the biggest twists of the season where a housemate from Finland will trade places with a local housemate, which happens to be Cathy Remperas, the Charming Babe of Bohol.

The 22 year old Finnish housemate admitted that she is not fluent in English. A food processing worker, Kattlin describes herself as a positive and cheerful person. Her weakness, meanwhile, is her short temper. She hates people with oversized ego, people who lie a lot, and people-pleasers.

Will Kattlin be able to relate to the Pinoy housemates? Will she be able to adjust to the culture and language? What foreign traits and culture will she introduce to the housemates and the Filipino audience? And also, how will our very own Cathy adapt to the polar environment and European culture?

Don't miss Kattlin's first days inside the PBB house this Saturday (October 31), 0945pm, after Maalaala Mo Kaya and Sunday (November 1), 0915pm, after George and Cecil on ABS-CBN. See the highlights of the past week at PBB weekend primetime at 6 pm every Saturday and Sunday on Studio 23.

Cinemanila Int'l Film Festival 2009 Winners

MAIN (INT'L) COMPETITION
Lino Brocka Grand Prize: Hunger (UK/Ireland) by Steve McQueen
Grand Jury Prize: Tulpan by Sergey Dvortsevoy (Germany/Kazakhstan/Switzerland/Russia/Poland)
Best Actor: Alfredo Castro in Tony Manero (Chile/Brazil)
Best Actress: Tsilla Chelton in Pandora’s Box (Peru/Spain)

DIGITAL LOKAL
Lino Brocka Grand Prize: Anacbanua by Christopher Gozum
Grand Jury Prize: Biyaheng Lupa by Bing Lao
Best Director: Christopher Gozum for Anacbanua

SEA COMPETITION
Best SEA Film: Talentime by Yasmin Ahmad (Malaysia)
Best SEA Short: Focal Point by Alizera Khatami and Ali Seiffouri (Malaysia)
Special Mention: Woman on Fire Looks for Water by Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia)

YOUNG CINEMA
Best Short Film: To Siomai Love by Remton Siega Zuasola
Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema: Remton Siega Zuasola for To Siomai Love

PBB Double-Up holds 1st eviction tomorrow

Who among Princess Manzon, Jason Francisco, Carol Batay, and Jimson Ortega will be the first Double-Up housemate to be evicted from the Pinoy Big Brother house? Watch PBB Double-Up's 1st Eviction Night on Saturday at 0930pm, after MMK on ABS-CBN!

To save your favorite housemate, text in:
PBB {space} (Princess/Jason/Carol/Jim])
then send to 2331 (Globe or Sun) or 231 (Smart).

Catch Cinemanila's last 3 days

Ticket Information:

Regular Admission: PHP 120.00
Students: PHP 100.00
Senior Citizen: 20% off Regular Ticket Price
Premiere Screenings: PHP 200.00
Manila Meets Paul Schrader: PHP 250.00

Gold Tickets are priced at PHP 950.00 each and is equivalent to 8 films and the Master Class with Paul Schrader.

Tickets can be bought in advance through the Cinemanila Secretariat and at the Market! Market! Cinemas box office. For more details, go to www.cinemanila.org.ph.

PHSA now searching for 2010 Young Arts scholars

The Philippine High School for the Arts is inviting talented young students to join the 2010 Annual Nationwide Search for Young Arts Scholars.

Applicants must be:

• Filipino citizens with no pending application as immigrant to a foreign country; have an outstanding ability in an art discipline;
• be graduating Grade VI or VII pupils at the time of application and with have an above-average general intelligence(Important: current HS-I students may apply subject to evaluation by the ANSYAS Committee);
• able to take up the scholarship in the School Year for which it is granted;
• not older than 15 years upon enrolment in PHSA;
• proficient in oral and written Filipino and English;
• willing to study in a boarding school;
• able to identify a Legal Guardian residing in Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, or Batangas;
  
• without any debilitating illnesses or systemic and/or communicable diseases.

Applicants must be determined to pursue a college degree in Dance, Creative Writing, Architecture, Fine Arts, Music, Theater Arts, Journalism, or any related course upon graduation from the PHSA.

Application forms are downloadable from the PHSA website at www.phsa.edu.ph or contact them:

Philippine High School for the Arts
National Arts Center, Mt Makiling, Los Baños 4030, Laguna
Website: www.phsa.edu.ph
Email: phsa@laguna.net
Tel/Fax: (049)-5365971 to 73 and (049)-5362862

Pinoypoets holds 4th free poetry lecture

Pinoypoets, in partnership with the Lopez Memorial Museum and Library, presents "Mind the Gap: The Work of Fragments," a lecture by poet Conchitina Cruz. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held on October 24, Saturday, 2:00 PM at the Lopez Memorial Museum and Library. This event is the fourth of a series of lectures celebrating Pinoypoets' fifth anniversary.

Visit www.pinoypoets.com for details, or contact Pinoypoets through mail@pinoypoets.com or 0917-6934821 for inquiries.

Biyaheng Lupa's world premiere on Oct. 19 (Monday)

A bus takes off from urban Manila to the rustic southeastern side of the country, carrying a motley group of passengers from all walks of life, each one with a personal story to tell and telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, as the passengers mentally sort out their past and their future, things happen in the present, by choice or by providence, that make the journey memorable—the bus blows a tire, a song elicits tears, a butterfly causes commotion, a photograph gets lost, a head is stoned, some hearts are broken, some mended. The bus ride poetizes the life journey and poses questions on issues of life and death and where exactly the line is drawn between free will and destiny.

Biyaheng Lupa (Soliloquy) marks the directorial debut of Armando "Bing" Lao, the foremost Filipino screenwriting guru in the independent film scene. As part of the Digital Lokal competition in the ongoing 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival, Biyaheng Lupa premieres tomorrow, October 19, at Market! Market! Cinema 6, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, at 8PM. (Tickets sold at the venue)

The film boasts of an impressive acting ensemble led by Coco Martin, Eugene Domingo, Susan Africa, Mercedes Cabral, Julio Diaz, and Ms. Jaclyn Jose.

In the director's notes Bing Lao states: "The voice-over device allows me to take a glimpse of the inner lives of the passenger characters as their minds wander off into streams of consciousness. It offers me an opportunity to use an impressionistic approach to film that acknowledges spoken language as the logical medium for telling a story and in a form that only voice-overs could effectively fulfill. In Biyaheng Lupa, I believe that only the use of language, together with occasional sound effects and music, can unify exposition and capture the immediacy of the characters’ random and intrusive thoughts."