The short film Caretaker, directed by advocacy filmmaker Seymour Barros Sanchez and produced by Red Room Media Productions, won second place in the short fiction category of the sixth CAM International Festival for Short Films in Cairo, Egypt. The film festival, organized annually by the Egyptian Arab Society for Culture, Media and Arts, aims to promote cinema as a means of combating ignorance, terrorism and poverty. Jahzeel Abihail Cruz, third secretary and vice consul of the Embassy of the Philippines in Cairo, received the second prize trophy and certificate from CAM film festival director and chairman Alaa Nasr on behalf of the Caretaker team during the awarding ceremonies on Oct. 13. Caretaker has also been selected as one of the finalists in the Active Vista International Human Rights Film Festival short film competition currently being organized by the DAKILA artist collective. It was also shown at the 22nd annual Filipino International Cine Festival (FACINE) at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, California and the International Film Festival Manhattan at the Producers Club in New York City.

Source: The Standard November 03, 2016 10:06 UTC