JOYCE PILARSKY DEBUTS A STAGE ACTRESS. Premier theater company Repertory Philippines, more popularly known as REP, marks its golden year with a phenomenal celebration. All the brightest stars of theater are coming together on one stage for a one-night-only gala musical, “REP 50 Years of Telling Stories,” to be presented on June 11 at the Theater at Solaire. Mrs. Universe South Asia 2017 Joyce Penas Pilarsky debuts as stage actress with REP.
CONGRATULATIONS! Quantum Post is honored and extremely proud to have been selected as the post-production house of Qiu Yang’s Xiao Cheng Er Yue (A Gentle Night), winner of the Palme D’Or for the Best Short Film, Main Competition of the 70th Festival de Cannes. Congratulations to the team of Carlo Francisco Manatad, Mikko Quizon, Timmy Torres, Benjo Ferrer, Nardre Torres, Noah Lean Loyola, Ogie Tiglao and Kristin Parre-Barrameda!
Congratulations to Jemimah Emerald Tumolva Bartolome for her induction to The International Honor Society Phil Kappa Phi (Chapter 45) at the awards ceremony at University of the Philippines, Film Center, Quezon City! Tumolva is the 19-year-old daughter of Rey and Esmie Bartolome who is graduating cum laude for BA Psychology this June 25.
‘I CAN DO THAT’ FINALS THIS WEEKEND. With Gabby Valenciano in the ring man act, Christine Reyes in the fire dancing act, Daniel Matsunaga in the aerial pole act and Wacky Kiray in the wire balancing act as the final four candidates to The Greatest Entertainer title in the show hosted by Robi Domingo and Alex Gonzaga, I Can Do That runs up to its finals this weekend. Lead projects Wacky Kiray will win the grand prize for his boldness.
ALFONSO OSSORIO GOES TO THE THEATER. In between the royal families and reality shows, theaters provide screen media with a steady supply of Otors for the name recall, act superlatively and exact professionalism.
From siblings Suzette and Mat Ranillo III to John Arcilla, the theater has been a traditional source of actors for mainstream entertainment. Eugene Domingo played the wife of Datu Bulan in Floy Quintos’ St. Louis Loves Dem Filipinos before the sibling rivalry of twins Kimmy and Dora Go Dong Hae in Chris Martinez’s Kimmy Dora franchise.
After the public-friendly JC Santos, theater’s freshest export to the small screen, theater actor Nel Gomez strongly registers his availability in the Quintos-written two-act play, The Angry Christ, running at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater, 2nd Floor Palma Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
Before the The Angry Christ show, Leon Gallery opened the second tribute exhibit to the Global Filipino Artist entitled “Alfonso Ossorio: The Grazing Light” as curated by Tats Manahan and Lizza Guerrero Nakpil.
Overwhelming is the best description of Gomez’s performance as the young Filipino-American abstract expressionist Alfonso Ossorio in The Angry Christ.
A good-looking Filipino-Spanish like the artist who can very a hot matinee idol, Gomez arrogates his gay character with a very subtle feminine appeal he projects almost male. He goes on correct mode “But once and for all, I am a straight man. And I’m very in love with a girl named Sarah Facuri.”
Gomez is trapped to crossover to mainstream entertainment as he has shown high potential. Asked about it, he replied, “It’s possible. Depends on the circumstances though.”
The actor with the legal name of Nelsito Gomez glamorized it with a showbiz name based on his nickname. He probably has to improve on public relations as he admits he is perceived as “suplado.”
He lists winning the 2009 MYX VJ Search as his biggest achievement. A total performer, he showed skill in singing and dancing in the video single “One Moment.”An actor in a forgettable indie film, he regained lost ground in Sam Lee Baka Bukas as boyfriend of an openly gay man.
But Gomez is foremost a theater actor (Greenday’s American Idiot The Musical, Romeo and Juliet, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, among others). Ossorio is the second painter role this year after My Name is Asher Lev.
Coming out like a twin offering with Leon Gallery’s exhibition “Alfonso Ossorio: The Grazing Light,” The Angry Christ reimagines the mid-century America-based visual artist’s only 10-month homecoming with domestic partner Ted Dragon in 1950.
With direction and choreography by Dexter Santos, it depicts Ossorio’s inner turmoil, his sexuality caused by a lonely childhood and artistic process that wrestled his creative demons.
The image of his magnificent mural entitled The Last Judgment with the Holy Spirit later dubbed as The Angry Christ by Life magazine with a fierce-looking Jesus Christ with arms spread in crucifixion position is flashed before the final blackout.
Now arguably the year’s best play, it looks like Gomez has made Christ happy.
BAÑARES, ONLY FILIPINO REP IN ONE-MINUTER FIlMFEST. Ang May Akda (The Author), the new one-minuter film by Ilonggo filmmaker Elvert Bañares, is the only Filipino film in competition in Mister Vorky international film festival in Ruma, Serbia, which will run this June 2 to 4, 2017.
There are only 105 one-minuter films selected from among thousands of submissions. Ang May Akda competes under the Fiction Category and faces 18 other one-minuter films. Mister Vorky is an International Festival of one-minute films from all continents.
The organizer of the festival is the Independent Film Center Vorky Team and pays tribute to the Serbian-American film artist Slavko Vorkapich thus the Mister Vorky nickname.
Ang May Akda is part of the mobile-sintas 2017 series of Bañares, which are very short films shot and edited using the mobile-phone.
‘G DIARIES’ GINA LOPEZ’s TRAVEL DIARIES. Sharon Cuneta, Eddie Garcia and Charo Santos are among the celebrities who will guest in former DENR Secretary Gina Lopez’s fresh travel show, G Diaries. If you know her enough, the show will be advocacy-oriented.
Premiering tomorrow June 4, Sunday, just before the noontime show ASAP, it will air every Saturday at 8 a.m. The ex-head of Bantay-Bata and Bantay-Kalikasan finally decided to have her own television show as directed by a Hollywood director.
“G Diaries seeks not only to entertain viewers and promote the Philippines as a majestic travel destination and incite action for everyone to be part of the collective effort to preserve the environment and bequeath it in its healthiest state, but also to inform the next generation,” shared Lopez.
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Christ isn‘t angry at Nel Gomez
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