Devant, makers of the Philippine's
first ever Digital Free, TV Ready TV sets, recently held an exclusive screening
of “The Owner” held at the Freesia Ballroom, Marco Polo Ortigas, Pasig City. Devant,
which specializes in portable players with LED monitors, speaker systems, LCD
TVs and LEDTech TV, has been sponsoring local entertainment events, such as the
press conference for the Sarah Geronimo/John Lloyd Cruz’ romantic-comedy film
“Finally Found Someone,” the ABS CBN Kapamilya Fiesta World Sweden, the Grand
album launch of PBB’s May May Entrata in partnership with Star Events &
Star Music.
“The Owner,” a first film produced by
CollabFeature, a group of independent filmmakers from all over the world, first
released in 2012, was hailed by critics as a new step toward world cinema by a
global group of independent filmmakers, an outstanding achievement in
multi-director, collaborative filmmaking. It previously held the Guinness Book
of World Records as the feature film with most number of directors (25).
Written and directed by 25 different
directors, including British director Craig Lines, and filmed in 5 continents in
USA, England, India, Germany, Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Dubai, France,
Colombia, Lebanon, South Africa and Hong Kong, in an unprecedented online
collaboration, “The Owner” is a wonderfully creative and refreshing film about
a backpack that travels around the world to find its owner so a curse will be
broken. It stars Surely Alvelo (Captain America: Civil War (2016), Indian actor
Nawazuddin Siddiqui known for his works in Hindi cinema, Jorge Mario Agudelo, Chiraz
Aich and Christine Altmann.
Lines, an award-winning British
director now based in the Philippines with his Filipino wife, has been slowly making
his presence felt in the country. The 3-time BAFTA television award-winning
director has partnered with a local travel magazine to promote local and
foreign destinations via the digital edition of the magazine, and has made
known he is open to work with the country's top studios for future film collaboration
in the future. Words by Eton Concepcion
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