Another score for the brilliance of film director Brillante Mendoza as he, once again, received a Best Director award for his film Kinatay  in the 42nd Sitges International Film Festival held just recently in Spain.  Kinatay, which has international title The Execution of P, also won the Best Original Soundtrack for Teresa Barrozo.

The Sitges International Film Festival is known as the “number one fantasy film festival in the world.”  Awards is held at the Spanish region of Catalonia, in the city of Sitges.  This prestigious awar giving body started in 1968 as the 1st International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies. Nowadays, the Sitges Internation Film Festival is an essential rendezvous for movie lovers and audiences eager to come into contact with new tendencies and technologies applied to film and the audiovisual world.

Kinatay is about a police intern student, played by Coco Martin, who becomes a witness to the brutal rape and murder of a prostitute.¬† The organizers of the Film Festival describes Kinatay as ‚Äúan uncomfortable, abrasive film camouflaged with a stifling ultra-realism where the camera captures, in first person, the story of a kidnapping that will make even the bravest’ hair stand on end.”

Brillante Mendoza also bagged the Best Director awards Cannes Film Festival in France.

Aside from Kinatay, another Filipino film the “Independencia” by Raya Martin was also part of 42nd Sitges International Film Festival. But it was part of the SO Noves visions РFiction section while Kinatay was part of the main competition.

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