1st AGITPROP International Film Festival on Peoples' Struggles at UP Diliman from July 2 - 4, 2011

AGITPROP is an international festival of films that promote genuine peoples' struggles all over the world. It takes the role of giving a much needed venue for films and filmmakers that dare present social realities, often silenced and confused by the dominant modes and channels of information. It is for films that take on the issue of imperialism and neoliberal globalization, resistance and liberation struggles, genuine democracy, human rights, and social justice among others.



Festival Calendar


Day 1 | July 2, 2011 (Saturday) | College of Mass Communications Media Center [Donation Ticket Php 20]

1:00 PM Opening Ceremonies

1:30 PM Opening Film: determiNATION Songs | Directed by Michelle Smith and Paul Rickard | Productions Multi-Monde | Documentary | 2009 | Canada

2:50 PM Sounds of A New Hope | Directed by Eric Tandoc | Documentary | 2009 | U.S. / Philippines

3:30 PM A Step Back In Time | Directed by Indiriani Kopal | Documentary | 2010 | Malaysia

3:45 PM The Oak Park Story| Directed by Valerie Soe and Russell Jeung | Documentary | 2010 | U.S.

4:15 PM Kinulayang Kiti / Hand-painted Feathers| Directed by Richard Legaspi | Red Room Prod. | Fiction | 2009 | Phil.

4:45 PM Break

5:30 PM Gala Night/Cocktails

6:00 PM Ates Cemberinde Gül Yüzler / A Smiing Face in the Circle of Fire | Directed by Mustafa Kilinc | Documentary | 2010 | Germany / Philippines

7:00 PM Open Forum: “Sites and Sights of Resistance”

8:00 PM Main Feature Film: Cultures of Resistance | Directed by Iara Lee | Caipirinha Productions | Documentary | 2010 | International


Day 2 | July 3, 2011 (Sunday) | College of Mass Communications Media Center [Donation Ticket Php 20]

1:00 PM 43 | ST eXposure and Anino Shadowplay Collective | Documentary | 2010 | Philippines

1:15 PM Hingalo / Breathless | Directed by Anna Isabelle Matutina | Fiction | 2010 | Philippines

1:25 PM Diagnosing Poverty | Directed by Ron Magbuhos Papag and Bedette Libres | Kodao Productions and Intal | Documentary | 2004 | Philippines

2:00 PM Listen To Our Voice | Secretariat for Peace and Justice (SKP) Papua & Witness | Documentary | 2011 | Indonesia

2:15 PM Eksenang Tahimik/ A Quiet Scene | Directed by JL Burgos | Poetry in Motion| | 2009 | Philippines

2:25 PM Ang Sandaling Sadya ni Lire at Isa / Lire and Isa’s Unforgettable Encounter | Directed by Francis Losaria | Fiction | Philippines

3:00 PM In Search of Liberation| Directed by Linde Moriau | Documentary | 2008 | Belgium / Philippines

3:30 PM Let’s Not Be Afraid | TransAsia Sisters Association, Taiwan | Documentary | 2010 | Taiwan

4:20 PM Break

Special program on Environmental Activism

5:00 PM Bikpela Bagarap | Directed by David Fedele | Documentary | 2011 | Australia / Papua New Guinea

5:50 PM Carteret Islands | Directed by Tara Jones | Documentary | 2011 | Australia / Papua New Guinea

6:10 PM A River Runs Through Us | Directed by Carla Pataky | Docuementary | 2011 | International

6:35 PM Bunker 0 : Sumirib Plus| Directed by Jan Philippe V. Carpio | Documentary | 2006 | Philippines

6:45 PM Gaharu: Selamatkan Manusia dan Hutan Papua / Save the People and Forests of Papua | Directed by Andre Rimbayana | Secretariat for Justice and Peace (SKP) Merauke, Papua | Docu | 2010| Indonesia

7:00 PM Sarawak Gone Series | Directed by Andrew Garton | Documentary | Australia / Malaysia

7:40 PM Open Forum

8:10 PM Feature film on Environmental Activism: Mirage of El Dorado | Directed by Martin Frigon | Productions Multi-Monde| Documentary | 2008 | Canada / Chile


Day 3 | July 4, 2011 (Monday) | UP Film Institute Cine Adarna Main Theatre

9:00 AM to 4:40 PM Contend Sponsored Benefit Program [Ticket Php 80]

9:00 AM Rights 3 | Mirage of El Dorado | Cultures of Resistance

12:00 NN Break

1:00 PM COINTELPRO 101 | The Freedom Archives | Documentary | 2010 | U.S.

2:00 PM Sa Hamon ng Panahon | Directed by Bonifacio Ilagan | Kodao Productions and UCCP | Philippines

3:00 PM Wag kang Titingin | Directed by Pam Miras | Digital Cheese | Fiction | 2010 | Philippines

3:10 PM Operation 8 | Directed by Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones| Cutcutcut Films | Documentary | 2011

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4: 40 PM Break

Closing Night [Donation Ticket Php 20]

5:30 PM Ka Bel | Mayday Multimedia | Documentary | 2010 | Philippines

6:30 PM Dukot (Desaparecidos) / Disappeared | Directed by Joel Lamangan | Fiction | 2009 | Philippines

8:00 PM Open Forum

9:00 PM Closing Film: The Yes Men Fix the World | Directed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno | Documentary | 2009 | U.S.


*Tickets will be available at the venues.


For more info, please visit http://agitpropfilmfest.wordpress.com/