{"id":245355,"date":"2022-12-12T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/philippines-embassy-showcases-contemporary-film-featuring-pinoy-patintero-at-4th-asian-film-festival-in-abuja?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:18:47","slug":"philippines-embassy-showcases-contemporary-film-featuring-pinoy-patintero-at-4th-asian-film-festival-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/philippines-embassy-showcases-contemporary-film-featuring-pinoy-patintero-at-4th-asian-film-festival-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Embassy Showcases Contemporary Film Featuring Pinoy Patintero at 4th Asian Film Festival in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Philippine Embassy in Abuja, led by Charge d’Affaires Roderico Atienza, participated for the third time in the Asian Film Festival in the Nigerian capital, showcasing “Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo”, <\/em>a 2016 coming-of-age film directed by Mikh Vergara, on 21-25 November 2022 at the Chinese Cultural Center Abuja.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The screening of the contemporary film on 24 November 2022, which uses the traditional Filipino children’s game “patintero”<\/em> as its setting, was made possible by the provision of the film rights by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) through its Philippine Embassies Assistance Program (PEAP).<\/p>\n

The Embassy served Filipino street food and drinks such as beef lumpiang<\/em> shanghai, a Filipino take on the famous egg or spring roll; a variant of tokneneng <\/em>or deep-friend chicken eggs in batter; turon,<\/em> a deep-friend banana roll; and samalamig,<\/em> specifically sago’t gulaman,<\/em> a traditional sweet chilled beverage featuring tapioca and black jelly.<\/p>\n

The other films featured at this year’s Festival include At Last (China, 2021), Villa Dwellers (Lebanon, 2017), Parasite (Korea, 2021), Under the Bombs (Lebanon, 2007), Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale (Bangladesh, 2018), Lights from the East: I Am Maluku (Indonesia, 2014), The Milestone (Malaysia), and The Last Breakfast (Syria, 2021).<\/p>\n

The Philippine Embassy joined the diplomatic missions of China, Iran, South Korea, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Syria in participating at the fourth edition of the Festival.<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Africa Newsroom – APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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