Matti's BuyBust leads PHL contingent in NYAFF

BuyBust (2018) and on the work (2013) of ERIK MATTI will be screened this week at the ongoing New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF). According to the festival's website, they are part of the Filipino's largest selection of Filipino films since 2013.

"This is a very great opportunity to show what types of movies are currently in the Philippines," he said. Film Development. Mary Liza B. Diño, CEO and President of the Philippines Council (FDCP), in vernacular at the June 10 press conference at Cocoon Hotel Quezon City

"This is our most a large contingent of films in North America … [The region] is really, really hard to penetrate, "she said before explaining that filmmakers like Lav Diaz and Brillante Mendoza, among others, have already made a name in European festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.The first time in 2002, NYAFF presents contemporary premieres and classic titles from East Asia and from Southeast Asia with genres ranging from horror to crime and action.The festival is organized by Subway Cinema and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

The festival of this year will take place from June 29 to July 15.

Mr. Buybust movie by Matti, a film of "Action on the War on Drugs, with Anne Curtis-Smith and MMA fighter Brandon Vera, will be world premiere at the festival and will also serve as a closing film on July 15 at the VAS Theater

" surface, it is structured as a film of action in the vein of The Raid … [with] narcs shoot down a drug addict against insurmountable obstacles during one night rainy incessant. The film employs 309 stuntmen and presents a three-minute action scene, an extremely ambitious cut. Being a matti film, it also offers a burning perspective on the ongoing drug war and wider problems of political corruption, "noted the festival website

. (2017). Alberto "Treb" Monteras II who participates in the Tiger Unleashed section of the festival and will be screened on July 14 at the SVA Theater, NeoManila (2017) by Mikhail Red which was screened on July 5 at the Walter Reade Theater Lincoln Center, and Matti On the Job (2013), which is screened on July 14 at the SVA Theater

.] which had its world premiere at the opening night of the festival June 29 at the Lincoln Center and Sid & Aya (1945) by Irene Emma Villamor the only romantic drama of the program, will be screened on July 15 at the SVA Theater

"The festival aims to show that Asia is a beacon. of cinematic excitement, his films as rich in provocative art and as emotionally compelling as those of his western counterpart. In the era of curation dictated by algorithms and Eurocentrism, NYAFF has two convictions: that the taste in movies can not be inferred or reduced to the history of its browser; The festival said on its website.

This year, NYAFF is nicknamed the "Savage Seventeenth" and features four world premieres, three international premieres, 21 North American shows. premieres, three American premieres and 12 premieres in New York, featuring comedies, dramas, thrillers, romances, horror films and art and test films in from Asia. – Zsarlene B. Chua