Tonight! Live Film Scoring at Downtown Independent

Join us for a truly special evening of live audio + visual exploration
and exclusive screening of fresh international cinema.
Live and direct from the Philippines to Los Angeles!
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SQUATTER RIGHTS: LIVE REWORKS of Philippine Nu Wave Films
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Featuring selected films by KHAVN, RAYA MARTIN, JOHN TORRES, DADA DOCOT (Philippines)
Accompanied by THE MILES APPROACH, RANI D, RED KEY EXPERIMENT (Los Angeles)

doors at 8:30pm, screens at 9pm
Downtown Independent
251 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.downtownindependent.com/

Rooftop Reception post-screening.
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FEATURED FILMS:

PERFORMING NATURALNESS (2008) 3 min
A Filipina living in Japan secretly confronts Japanese immigration police
at a Shinagawa train station armed only with a concept and a roll of 8mm film.

Director, Dada Docot
Visual artist and film maker emerges into the international scene
with a deeply personal and subtly defiant style.

*accompanied by Vivian Chow and Joel Quizon
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TRACK PROJECTIONS (2006) 4 min
Another video wants to be a film, as a filmmaker
travels across the world in search of another filmmaker.

Director, Raya Martin
Fresh from two features shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
and inclusion of his latest feature Independencia at the New York Film Festival.

*accompanied by Rani de Leon
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ANDREA’T (2008) 5 min
A visual intermission containing distance, face, skin,
and the pursuit of the familiar far from where the beloved sits.

Director, John Torres
Award winning and a regular of the international film festival circuit,
Torres makes idiosynchratic films that leave indelible impressions on the viewer.

*accompanied by Joel Quizon
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SQUATTERPUNK (2007) 79 min
A visual explosion of a day in the life of squatter kids
living in the urban margins of Philippines.

Director, Khavn
Musician and filmmaker, he is one of the true renegades
of the Philippine Independent Film movement.

*accompanied by The Miles Approach, Red Key Experiment
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The Miles Approach
http://www.myspace.com/themilesapproach
Inventive Los Angeles Indie trio featuring Louie Mendoza, Vivian Chow and Drew de Ramos.

Rani de Leon
http://www.myspace.com/djranid
soulful global atmospherics for the discerned dancefloor.

Red Key Experiment
http://www.myspace.com/redkeyexperiment
Drew de Ramos and Joel Quizon. Sound collage on four turntables and eclectic vinyl selections.
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Curated by Philippines filmmaker, Ruelo Lozendo
and presented by LA filmmakers Maya Santos & Joel Quizon
with support from Visual Communications (http://www.vconline.org) and the 2009 Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (http://www.filmamarts.org), Sept. 12-13!

photo by Buccino de Ocampo.
flyer by Light Friends.
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DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT THEATER
http://www.downtownindependent.com/