Sinepiyu X

Far Eastern Univerty's annual film festival organized by the FEU Film Society is now in its 10th year! The film festival started back in 2007 to give a chance for Mass Communication students to showcase their film making skills since the cinema subject is one of the major subjects in the widely diverse curriculum of the course.  

 

 

Through the years Sinepiyu has evolved and expanded its horizons from a simple showcasing of short films made by the film society and film production students, the festival has now opened its doors to different short films and documentaries made by other students from different schools in the country.
 

 

 

This year Sinepiyu X is divided into two categories, the All FEU entries wherein all of the film entries in this category are films made by students from FEU that is currently enrolled in the CNM2 subject. The second category is the FEU Video Open which is the intercollegiate film festival that is open for student film makers all over the Philippine, the FEU Video Open is divided into three categories namely the Narrative, Documentary and the Experimental. There are almost 70 films to be shown in Sinepiyu X and out of that, there are 27 entries from the CNM2 Students.

Yesterday I had the chance to get a glimpse of the four films in the All FEU category, the first one is "Love Is Never Silent" directed by Salud Gilmore, starring Crizelle Vivas and David Simon Garcia, The premise of the story is about two completely different people that gets attracted to each other, the bubbly and loud girl meets a deaf mute boy, will their relationship grow

 

The next one is "Baon" directed by Florife Sapusao, starring John Benedict Garcia Vincent Paul Duller, and Tria Urbano. "Baon" is a coming of age short film about two young male students, Alex and Zymon, they always share their breaktime together everyday, from then on they became closer each and everyday that one day they realized that they are slowly falling for each other, but their story didn't go well as trouble came in that torn their friendship apart. Will their friendship be restored or will they let go and move on?

 

The third one is "Asul" directed by Josiah Privado and Angelique Sido, starring Jeanette Jamora, Roi Neri, and Arrian Labios. "Asul" tackles the infamous "Blue Book" that was a big buzz in the university belt before, rumor says that the Blue Book contains names and information of college girls that is into prostitution. The story revolves around Tina, a college student who also work as part time janitress to fund her education and to support her ailing grandmother and younger brother, life is tough for her and it gets tougher when series of unfortunate events struck her life that forced her to risk everything.

The last one is "On Fleek" directed by Patricia Ramirez, starring Raven Relavo, Margaux Romero, and John Patrick Isidro. "On Fleek" features the story of Lia an aspiring make up vlogger that struggles to do her own eyebrow make up, one day Lia went online to do another tutorial and to her surprise her crush Luis watches her, but Luis never did like her posts. Which of Lia's goals will be achieved? Her Kilay Goals or the Crush Goals?

Most of the "All FEU films" in Sinepiyu were shot inside FEU, because of the moratorium that the CHED issued after an accident in Taytay happened that prohibits any school activity to be done outside of the premise of the school. These film makers cited that as one of the biggest problems that they faced in making their films since they had a hard time pulling a trick to make the location don't look like FEU.

The Sinepiyu X will be on the 24th and 25th of April in FEU, Morayta.