Mandaluyong City- Filipino moviegoers delighted at Shangri-La Plaza Mall Red Carpet Cinema on the free screening for two days of Tingin Film Festival project of National Commission for Culture and the Arts( NCCA)

Present from Diplomatic corps on the opening are Her Excellency Megawati Manan of Brunei Darussalam and First Secretary Ani Annuar, Indonesian Embassy are Cultural Attache Avi Harahap, French Cultural Attache Martin Macalintal.

With ten thousand pesos as cash prize on the best theme attire  announced by Mariel Nini, head of the Sentro Rizal International Culture Affairs Office of NCCA.

Tingin Festival Director Maya Quirino rooted from Mindanao shared that indigenous culture are still mystery and need understand and exposure . Bernan Joseph R Corpuz, NCCA- Deputy Executive Director for Operations gave his short message. Also present were artists former Film Development Council of the Philippines Chairperson & CEO now Executive Director at the Quezon City Film Commission  Liza Dino-Seguerra and Ice Seguerra.

On the first day screening The Golden Dragon of Cambodia by Boren Chhith, Once Upon a time there was a mom of Myanmar by Lin Htet Aung, Worship of Thailand by Uruphong Raksasad,Snow in Mid summer of Malaysia by Chong Keat Aun and The Long Walk of Laos People’s Democratic Republic by Mattie Do as the Laos first female film maker.

And on second day screening Part of Me of Brunei Darussalam by Hazrul Aizan follow the journey of an aspiring singer torn between chasing his dreams and meeting his family’s expectations for a stable career, Of other tomorrows never known of Indonesia by Natasha Tontey guided  by the Minahasa’s influence this speculative fiction of mystical belief interplaces care and ancestral dialogues embracing a healing renewal across luminous material and technological realms this film already screened at the prestigious Karlovy Vary film festival and Singapore International Film Festival, Memoryland of Vietnam by Kim Quy Bui, Dreaming and Dying of Singapore by Nelson Yeo and In the mother’s skin of Philippines by Kenneth Dagatan.