ECQ2 starts online cinema on Feb. 19

 ECQ2 starts online cinema on Feb. 19

 

Eksena Cinema Quarantine 2: COVID-19 Filmmakers’ Diaries or ECQ2 gears up its online cinemas for free screening of its 16 films starting February 19 after its Virtual Launch at 4PM via its @EksenaCQ2 facebook page.

Free screenings of these films will be on the National Committee on Cinema official vimeo account through this main landing page of ECQ2 vimeo.com/showcase/ecq2.

Two virtual online cinemas, CINEMA 1 https://bit.ly/ECQ2_Cinema1 and CINEMA 2 https://bit.ly/ECQ2_Cinema2 will be up and running until March 25, 2022 for free access.

 

National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) -Sub commission on the Arts head and National Committee on Cinema chair Prof. Rolando Tolentino said during the virtual presser that ECQ2 is NCC’s contribution to spur the sustainability of filmmaking practice among regional filmmakers in our country.

 

ECQ2, according to Tolentino is a sequel project of ECQ done at the height of the enhanced community quarantine at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.

 

Select films are featured in ECQ2 namely:

NOT A SHORT FILM directed by Joseph Abello

PANGAMUT GAYD directed by Roberto Acusar Jr

PINITIK directed by Reyan Amacna

PISTI PANDEMIC directed by Ara Mina Amor

PALENGKE DAY directed by Mervine Aquino

MEL directed by Nathan Bringuer

THINGS I’LL TELL YOU directed by Demie Dangla

A RITUAL OF AFFLICTION directed by Jean Claire Dy

AGNO: MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN RIVER directed by Christopher Gozum

ANIMA SOLA directed by Xavier Axl Roncesvalles

PARIS SA AKONG KASINGKASING directed by Jarell Serencio

SEE US COME TOGETHER directed by Alyssa Suico

MY DAY directed by Van Sulitas

MGA HANDUM NGA NASULAT SA BARAS directed by Kat Sumagaysay & Richard Jeroui Salvadico

ILOG BIKOL directed by Hubert Tibi

SAMPUNG MINUTO directed by Jasper Villasis

“We are providing free access to our kababayans here and abroad to be able to partake of excellent films from all over the country,” Tolentino added.

This project NCCA-NCC with the University of St. La Salle aims to contribute to the development of Philippine cinema by curating an omnibus feature-length films in the time of COVID-19 and to be able to document the individual and collective experiences of artists, cultural workers, Filipinos, and the Philippines in the midst of a global health crisis. 

 For updates, follow the official FB page @EksenaCQ2.