Films

• Agaton & Minty. Directors Guild of the Philippines, 2009.

"Agaton & Mindy" tells the story of two young dancers from different background. Mindy (Louise De Los Reyes) is from rich family and suffers from depression. Agaton (Chase Vega) is from poor family and is searching for his mother (Dina Bonnevie) who abandoned him while he was a young child.

Both meet in a dance class handled by Tanya Dolokhov (Cherie Gil) who pairs them up in a dance recital. A brilliant and devotional teacher, Tanya encourages her students to tap into their wild sides for inspiration, and this is also the time when their romance blossoms..

• Namets! [‘Yummy!’]. Bonfire Productions, 2008.

Namets! is a 2008 Filipino independent film directed by Jay Abello. The film was a finalist in the full-length feature category of the 2008 CinemalayaPhilippine Independent Film Festival.^[3] The film's title is a play on the Hiligaynon word namit, which means "yummy" or "delicious".

Jacko Teves (Christian Vasquez) owns Puccini's, an Italian restaurant in Bacolod City. When a monstrous cock fighting debt sets him at odds with Boss Dolpo (Peque Gallaga), he offers his restaurant up as payment. Boss Dolpo brings in Cassie Labayen (Angel Jacob) as a consultant to renovate the restaurant. Much to Jacko's dismay, Cassie decides to offer Negrense cuisine instead of Italian. The pair then set off across the province re-discovering the unique aspects of Negrense food.

• PASS. Negros Summer Workshops, 2008.

PASS was shot by 6 directors of photography , namely Paolo Correa, Arnel Cuaycong, Dominic Lindaya, Renee Mauricio, Praise Rufin, and Jed Sicangco, under Carlo Mendoza's supervision. It was edited by Borgy Torre, scored by Carlo Acuman, and stars Kris Legarde, Coco Torre, Daryl Geroso, Carla Montalvo, and Leslie Ong. Shot entirely in Bacolod City, PASS is in Hiligaynon with English subtitles.
PASS is an official selection of the Q! Film Festival, screening in Jakarta, Indonesia from 6-11 August 2008 before moving on to Bali and Surabaya.

Vicente Gracia Groyon work's :

 

This is a work of fiction, but in writing this novel, the author consulted numerous sources for information on the history of Negros. The first sentence of the book grabs you: “The fact is: George Torrecarion went crazy.”

In his first collection of short stories, award-winning Vicente Garcia Groyon brings together characters discovering sinister truths lurking beneath the surfaces of the worlds they inhabit. A boy and his sister keep a grisly secret to preserve their way of life. A woman of a certain age entertains impure thoughts about a teenager. A young man in a ménage à trois simmers his loneliness into violence. A teacher struggles to break through the codes of secrecy that bind men. A genteel society boy confronts envy, lust and malice, and finds them emanating from himself. Written between 1989 and 2004, these stories trace the boundaries between grace and sin, baring our human capacity for both

 Sa ating nakababalisang buhay ngayon, sino'ng may panahon para magbasa?

'Buti na lang, narito na ang napakaikling istorya, ang tinatawag na mga "sudden fiction" at "flash fiction." Sa loob ng isa hanggang tatlong pahina, nailalarawan nito ang isang mundong kumpleto, masalimuot, at kaakit-akit. Mababasa ito sa loob ng ilang minuto lamang, ngunit ang mga minutong ito'y hindi kukupas sa isip ng mambabasa.

Narito ang 30 sa mga sukdulang kuwentong paspasan sa Filipino.

 In these hectic times, who has time to read? Fortunately for all of us, the short, short story, sometimes called “sudden fiction” and “flash fiction”, is here. In one to three pages, these stories render complete, complex, and engaging worlds. They can be read in only a few minutes, but those minutes may linger in the reader’s mind forever. Here are 41 of the best short, short stories in English in the country today

All about Vicente Garcia Groyon:

                  Vicente Garcia Groyon was born in 1970 in Quezon City, Philippines. His novel The Sky over Dimas (De La Salle University Press, 2003) received the Grand Prize from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award, and the Madrigal-Gonzalez First Book Award. He has published a collection of short stories, On Cursed Ground and Other Stories (University of the Philippines, 2004), and edited anthologies of short fiction. He teaches at De La Salle University-Manila.

Vicente Garcia Groyon III

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