A short film that speaks against the socially accepted injustice brought by misogyny was recognized as the Best Student Short Film during the virtual 2020 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Awards Night on December 27. “Paano Maging Babae,” written and directed by digital filmmaking student Gian Arre from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts, seeks to answer the titular question as it follows a mandatory nationwide examination. Its cloying and manipulative misogynistic questions became a turning point for a woman to demonstrate and take a stand against the normalized social issue. “Paano Maging Babae” is the opening short attached to full feature film “Fan Girl,” which swept the MMFF Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Paulo Avelino), Best Actress (Charlie Dizon), Best Director (Antoinette Jadaone), Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Sound. MMFF is available worldwide and may be viewed until Jan. 7, 2021 on the video-on-demand platform Upstream PH through https://upstream.ph/mmff/.

Source: Manila Times December 30, 2020 19:00 UTC