Cinematical Presents: Free Screening of CAVITE, with Filmmaker Q & A

This upcoming Monday evening (May 15) in New York City, Cinematical will be hosting a screening of Independent Spirit Award Winner Cavite, to be followed by a Q & A with filmmakers Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana -- all lead by yours truly.  Maybe you saw Cavite at festivals such as SXSW or New Directors/New Films -- or maybe you heard everyone talking about it at said festivals, but didn't get a chance to catch it yourself. It's opening in selected markets at the end of this month, as the first feature to be released via Magnolia's Truly Indie initiative, and as excited as I am about all forms of alternative distribution, we at Cinematical wanted to do something to get the buzz rolling before the release. This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of screening events hosted under the auspices of Cinematical.

If you're in New York, we'd love to see you there. If you're interested in attending, please RSVP ASAP, sending plus +1 information, to karina AT weblogsinc DOT com. If you keep a blog, please include the URL -- there's limited space in our current location, so if demand provokes a seating crunch, we'll reserve space for those with the ability to spread the meme first. If you're not going to be in NYC on Monday, please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested in attending. Info on the film, dragged over straight from the press release, follows after the jump; you can watch the trailer here.

Written, directed and produced by the Filipino-American duo of Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana, Cavite can be equally described as a suspense story built upon the politics of extremist Muslim groups such as Abu Saayaf and the Muslim Philippine-American who becomes the next unwitting pawn in their terrorist activities, and as an essay on the cultural and economic status of the Philippines through globalization.  The filmmakers deftly construct the fictional and documentary aspects of the premise, producing a highly charged meditation on the visibility and invisibility of terrorism, the Diaspora, international borders and communications networks.

Produced and directed by Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana. Cinematography: Neill Dela Llana.  Editing: Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon.  Music: Ato Mariano.  In English and Tagalog with English subtitles.  A Truly Indie release.  Running time is 80 minutes. Cavite will open on May 26, 2006 in New York and Los Angeles.  Additional cities on June 16th.