Source: abs-cbnnews.com
MANILA, Philippines – Independent film director Eduardo Roy, Jr. is on a winning streak.
After his first directorial effort, “Bahay Bata,” won the Jury Prize at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France early this month, Roy won the best new director prize for the same film at the recently concluded Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Spain, which ran from March 16 to 24.
The film festival posted on its website on Saturday that this is the first time the Jose Rivero prize for best new director award was given at the festival. The award comes with a cash endowment worth 12,500 euros or around P712,000.
“Bahay Bata,” written by Roy and Jerome Zamora, stars Diana Zubiri, Sue Prado, Mailes Kanapi, Peewee O'Hara and Jeoffrey Javier.
Zubiri has already won the best performer award from the Young Critics Circle for her performance in the film about a nurse working in a crowded maternity hospital.
“The Loneliest Planet,” a co-production of United States and Germany, won the top prize at the Spanish film festival, as well as best actress for Hani Furstenberg, who plays a young lover who travels with her boyfriend (Gael García Bernal) to the mountains of Georgia.
The second best film of the festival went to “Taboo” from Portugal.
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