2011 Script Development Fund
LIST Women of the Weeping River (aka. SATRA)Category | Asian Project |
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Project | Women of the Weeping River (aka. SATRA) |
Director | Sheron DAYOC |
Country | Philippines |
Director's Profile |
Sheron Dayoc is a Mindanaon filmmaker and a visual artist. He comes from a Protestant family and was educated in a catholic institution, and raised in a Christian-Muslim inhabited City ? Zamboanga. Sheron is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy in Busan IFF 2008 and Next Masters Class of Tokyo FILMeX 2010. He has produced several documentaries, which include Asian Pitch (MediaCorp/NHK Japan) 2008 documentary [A Weaver′s Tale] which won him a Certificate of Creative Excellence from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival 2010. [HALAW (Ways of the Sea)], his first feature length film won Special Mention, NETPAC at Berlin, 2011 and traveled in film festivals all over the world. The film also won best film, best director, best actor, and best editing at the Philippines’ Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in 2010. |