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E-mailQuentin Tarantino, award-winning director of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill has promised to donate his new movie’s proceeds to the victims of typhoon “Ondoy.”
Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino’s latest film, will be premiered at the 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival on October 16, Friday at the Market! Market! Cinemas in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.
“Tarantino is donating the proceeds from the premiere of his film, Inglorious Basterds, to the victims of typhoon Ondoy,” festival director Tikoy Aguiluz told Philstar.com.
The film, starring Brad Pitt and Austrian actor Christopher Waltz, is set 1940s in a German-occupied France on World War II, where a group called “The Basterds” are chosen to wreak havoc on the Third Reich by brutally scalping and killing Nazis.
Tarantino’s film will be one of the more than 100 films to be featured in the festival, which will be held from October 15 to 25, 2009 at the Market! Market! Cinemas.
Opening the film festival will be Lola, the latest film of 62nd Cannes Film Festival Best Director Brillante Mendoza. Starring film veterans Anita Linda and Rustica Carpio, the film garnered praise from the Venice film festival, where it participated in the main competition.
The closing film will be Palme d’Or winner Raymond Red’s Himpapawid (Manila Skies), starring John Arcilla and Ronnie Lazaro.
In line with the festival’s goals of promoting filmmaking, scriptwriting seminars will be featured in Fully Booked, Taguig. American screenwriter Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), will be holding a master class at Market! Market! on Tuesday, October 20. Philstar reported that taxes for the festival have been waived and students will get discounts.
The screening schedule of all films are listed on the Cinemanila website.
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