Kanakan-Balintagos Trailers
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement TrailerPagbabalik sa Tribo TrailerRizal in Dapitan Trailer
Kanakan-Balintagos, formerly known as Auraeus Solito, is a Palawán-Filipino filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of shaman-kings from the Palawán tribe. He was one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan. He was born in Manila and, after graduating from the Philippine Science High School, studied theater at the University of the Philippines, where he received a degree in Theater Arts. One of the leading independent filmmakers in the Philippines, he was chosen as part of in Take 100, The Future of Film in 2010. This book, published by Phaidon Press, New York, is a survey featuring 100 emerging film directors from around the world who have been selected by 10 internationally prominent film festival directors.
Most Popular Kanakan-Balintagos Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
01 January 2010
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
01 January 1998
An ode to Rogelio Sikat’s classic Filipino short story “Impeng Negro,” about a boy who is both Filipino and Black.
12 October 2005
The daughter of a circumciser rebels and challenges the status quo when she is asked to take over her father's job.
22 December 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema.
01 January 1995
Suring casts a spell of immense beauty, but is persecuted by humanity. She retreats to the forests, far from the prying eyes of humans.
01 January 2002
Solito returns to his hometown on Palawan Island and captures the sacred rituals and daily lives of its people on film.
02 October 1999
Howie Severino, who grew up on the American East Coast, returned to the Philippines and found work as a journalist.
19 April 2009
A poet sells his collection of comic books and action figures in order to afford to hire a male stripper on New Years Eve.
30 November 2005
Maxi, a boy on the cusp of his teens, is already comfortable with his homosexual feelings, with acceptance from his family.
09 November 2014
Many have been aspiring for the position of Major Mac Favila, who is every cadet's ideal officer considering he is sharp, snappy, witty, and most of all, the most masculine among the school's many officers.
09 September 1997
Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan from 1892-1896. These were his last four years. Dapitan served as his prison cell.
10 December 1986
With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and Raymond Red, Beyond Mainstream documents the robust energy of nascent independent filmmaking in the country in the 80s.
11 July 2011
Punay was born with wounds on her feet so that she cannot step on the earth. Her brother, Angkarang, carries her through a hammock, as he searches the changing landscape of Palawan in hoping to find a healer who can cure Punay.
21 July 2007
The film, set in the 1980s, is centred upon a young student, from 1982 as a freshman and ending in 1986.
25 November 2012
A man gets involved with two mystic sisters who happened to save him from dying ashore.
