24 Jun 2007 by
starlitgrove I’ve marked my calendar for this. I hope to see batch mates and school mates at the CCP.
PISAY
by: AURAEUS SOLITO
Finalist, Full Length Films Category
Amidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all over the Philippines who passed the examination for the Philippine Science High School, which was created for the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in the Sciences to exceptionally gifted Filipino children. Selected from the best and brightest from all over the country, they endure college-level courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics from their sophomore year onwards. Those who can make it are hailed as the future science and technology leaders of the New Republic, those who don’t are deemed unfortunate victims of natural selection. They all learn however that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they exempted from living real lives. They find the world outside, erupting into the People Power revolution in 1986 against the Marcos dictatorship, being replicated within the school as they struggle to graduate, contend with teachers, classmates, family, school officials, and a new classification to segregate students meeting the high standards of excellence from those who do not.
The film will be shown at the Cinemalaya 2007 Film Festival on July 20-29, 2007 at the CCP.
The ones that made their mark were books by Madeleine Wickham. I just started Daniel Abraham’s 3rd, Autumn War. Asked JE to get it for me from Kinokuniya when he went to SG.