In celebration of National Literature Month the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the UP Film Institute will hold a conference entitled “Interseksiyon: Panitikan, Pelikula, at Wikang Filipino”.

The conference, directed by film scholar Patrick F. Campos, surveys the rich intertwinings between Filipino literature and cinema, from its inception a hundred years ago until the present. It will also try to show how these interactions across the disciplines helped popularize and spread Filipino language!

Admission is free and open to the public! Here’s the full schedule:

May 27 

10:00am – 10:30am Opening Bienvenido Lumbera – Teddy Co

10:30am – 12:00nn FROM PRINT TO STAGE TO FILM AND BACK Nicanor G. Tiongson, Soledad S. Reyes

1:30pm –3:00pm SEARCHING FOR A NATIONAL LANGUAGE/SUBJECT  Roland B. Tolentino, Neil Martial, Santillan Gary Devilles

3:00pm – 4:30pm SONGS, KOMIKS, AND POPULAR SOURCES Jose Buenconsejo, Joyce Arriola

6:00pm – 7:30pm Screening: Kaaway ng Babae

8:00pm – 9:30pm Screening: Sumpaan

May 28

10:30am – 12:00nn REMEMBERING AUTEURS AND LITTERATEURS Clodualdo Del Mundo, Jr. Tito G. Valiente, Teddy O. Co

12:00nn –12:30pm Screening: Lester

1:30pm – 3:00pm ARTISTIC CROSS-POLLINATION  Sari Raissa, Ll. Dalena, Joanna Oliquino

3:00pm – 4:30pm ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES Nick Deocampo, Patrick F. Campos, Joseph Palis

6:00pm – 7:30pm Screening: Ligaw na Bulaklak

8:00pm –9:30pm Screening: Babae… Ngayon at Kailanman

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