Pervision: A movie podcast

Pervision's first-ever LIVE episode happened on December 3rd, 2022, via QCinema's Facebook Page. There, we talked about the festival's Asian Shorts program, including Petersen Vargas' How To Die Young In Manila and Rafael Manuel's Filipiñana.

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In this episode, we tackled Asian Shorts, a brand-new program from QCinema. For its debut, it screened six interesting short films, including Petersen Vargas' How To Die Young In Manila, Sorayos Prapapan’s New Abnormal, Vũ Minh Nghĩa and Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy's Live in Cloud Cuckoo Land, Monica Vanesa Tedja’s Dear To Me, Danech San’s Sunrise in My Mind, and Rafael Manuel's Filipiñana.

This week's guests

Emil Hofileña is a film critic whose work has been published in Rogue, Young STAR, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Out of Print, among other publications. He served as a juror for FAMAS from 2018 to 2019.

Jason Tan Liwag is an openly gay scientist, actor, and writer. He is one of six emerging international film critics part of the Young Film Critics Programme of the 50th IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam).

Tristan Zinampan is a writer, editor, podcaster, and Rappler's resident film geek. He leads the website's youth culture section, Hustle.

Follow Armand and this week's guests on Twitter:

• Armand on Twitter @armanddc
• Emil on Twitter @emilhofilena
• Jason on Twitter @jaseybel
• Tristan on Twitter @tristanzinampan

About QCinema

QCinema is a homegrown, truly international film festival in the Philippines. It has its eyes set on its ongoing mission: "One city to the world."

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• Unreel's festival dispatches on #QCShorts
• SEA Shorts

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It's a special 3WCC x Pervision crossover! John Tawasil, the co-host of the Filipino film podcast, Third World Cinema Club, joins Armand and Tristan to chat about what moviegoing might look like in what appears to be the tail-end of COVID-19.

About our Guests

John Tawasil is from the film podcast, Third World Cinema Club, a show he-costs with our friends at Film Police Reviews. He also runs the film blog, Present Confusion. Tristan Zinampan is Rappler's resident film geek. He heads the brand integration, of which — fun fact! — I'm also a part. Translation: he's my boss.

About today's show

Per the IATF, Filipino moviegoers are finally allowed to watch movies in theaters again. That, however, is only true for you provided that you follow safety guidelines and have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

All three of us have reservations, especially with how the theater owners will implement and enforce the new safety guidelines.

Links mentioned in the episode

• Third World Cinema Club on Spotify
• Laffler Talk on Spotify
• Rappler.com
• John on Twitter @present_confusn
• Tristan on Twitter @tristanzinampan
• Armand on Twitter @armanddc
• Armand on Insta @armanddc

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This week, we're debuting our first-ever pod segment, 'Five Films,' a series of episodes where we bring on guests and ask them their top five recommendations on a certain film category. In this episode, we've brought on Chris Costello (from the Dead Air podcast) to share his #FiveFilms for Philippine horror movies.

About our guest

Chris Costello is a co-host of the horror podcast, Dead Air. He also co-pilots the Facebook community of the same name. 

Chris' #FiveFilms — Filipino Horror

• Itim (1976, dir. Mike De Leon)
• Yanggaw (2008, dir. Richard Somes)
• Violator (2014, dir. Dodo Dayao)
• Seklusyon (2016, dir. Erik Matti)
• Sunod (2019, dir. Carlo Ledesma)

Armand's #FiveFilms — Filipino Horror (I typically won't share my own, but being a horror hound myself I couldn't help it)

• Itim (1976, dir. Mike De Leon)
• Karnal (1983, dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
• Pa-Siyam (2004, dir. Erik Matti)
• Violator (2014, dir. Dodo Dayao)
• Salvage (2015, dir. Sherad Sanchez)

Links mentioned in the episode 🔗

• Dead Air podcast
• Dead Air's Facebook community
• Tristan's Salvage article
• Armand, Oggs, and Nicol in Ang Pinaka talking about Yanggaw 
• Pervision #18: 'OTJ: The Missing 8' (ft. Tristan & Jason)

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• Jason on Twitter @jaseybel
• Tristan on Twitter @tristanzinampan

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This week, we're talking about Netflix's currently most-watched title, South Korea's Squid Game.  

The new Netflix Original South Korean series, Squid Game, took the world by storm. It's a story about capitalism, spectatorship, and the illusion of choice. In today's discussion, we are joined with two friends of the pod, Tristan and Jason.
 
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About today's guests

Tristan Zinampan is a writer, editor, podcaster, and Rappler's resident film geek. He leads the website's youth culture section, Hustle.

Jason Tan Liwag is an openly gay scientist, actor, and writer. He is one of six emerging international film critics part of the Young Film Critics Programme of the 50th IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam).

This week's series

Squid Game follows hundreds of cash-strapped players who accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting survival game awaits with a whopping 45.6 billion-won prize at stake.  

Links mentioned in the episode 🔗

• 'Squid Game' on Netflix
• Rappler
• Tristan's 'Play Of The Week' video
• Pervision #14: 'Trese' (ft. Tristan & Emil)

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• Jason on Twitter @jaseybel
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This week, we're taking on Erik Matti's On The Job: The Missing 8 and Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass.  

Erik Matti's long-gestating On The Job: The Missing 8 wrapped its first season at HBO GO today; and Netflix has dropped one of its best shows of this year, Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass. Armand sits down with Tristran Zinampan and Jason Tan Liwag to discuss!

About today's guests

Tristan Zinampan is a writer, editor, podcaster, and Rappler's resident film geek. He leads the website's youth culture section, Hustle.

Jason Tan Liwag is an openly gay scientist, actor, and writer. He is one of six emerging international film critics part of the Young Film Critics Programme of the 50th IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam).

This week's films

On The Job: The Missing 8 is the follow-up to Erik Matti's 2013 modern classic, On The Job. Inspired by true events, the film chronicles the story of Sisoy Salas, a corrupt journalist seeking justice for his colleagues, and convict Roman Rubio, a hired gun who is regularly brought out of prison to perform assassinations.

Midnight Mass is the latest from Netflix's resident Stephen King fanboy, Mike Flanagan. In it, an isolated island community experiences miraculous events - and frightening omens - after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest.

Links mentioned in the episode 🔗

• Rappler (your friendly neighborhood scream queer is officially part of the team!)
• The Laffler Talk podcast
• Jason's review of On The Job: The Missing 8
• Jason on Twitter @jaseybel
• Tristan on Twitter @tristanzinampan

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A film fest about Filipino values? What novel idea!

Sine Halaga had a successful inaugural run a couple of weeks ago. Film critic Emil Hofileña joins Armand to discuss their favorite short films from the fest, many of which feature aswangs and tikbalangs.

About today's guest

Emil Hofileña is a film critic whose work has been published in Rogue, Young STAR, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Out of Print, among other publications. He served as a juror for FAMAS from 2018 to 2019.

About Sine Halaga

From their page: Sine Halaga (The NCCA Filipino Values Film Festival) gives a platform to all filmmakers to tell beautiful stories depicting Filipino values in contemporary films.

Links mentioned in the episode 🔗

• Dispatch notes from Sine Halaga 2021
• Sine Halaga's Facebook Page
• Armand on Twitter @armanddc
• Emil on Twitter @emilhofilena
• Emil Reviews Things
• Cinemil 

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3WCC and Film Police Reviews' Princess Kinoc drops by to chat about My Amanda, a new Netflix Filipino-language original written and directed by Alessandra De Rossi. The film follows two unusually close friends (played by Piolo Pascual and De Rossi herself) as they navigate life.

About today's guest

Princess Kinoc is the co-host of the Third World Cinema Club and editor of Film Police Reviews. Probably the most congenial cinephile you'll know, we fondly think of Cess as the one true Supreme of Filipino film appreciation.

Links mentioned in the episode 🔗

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• Armand on Twitter @armanddc
• Deep Cuts (my horror newsletter!)
• Princess on Twitter @cesskinoc
• Third World Cinema Club (3WCC) on Spotify
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Episode 15! Armand (@armanddc), Emil (@emilhofilena), and Tristan (@tristanzinampan) tackle Erik Matti's new film, A Girl and A Guy, a sleazy romantic dramedy about twentysomethings navigating their lives. It's also the very first original title from newcomer streaming platform, Upstream. The new film stars Alexa Miro and Rob Gomez.

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• Inside the Industry
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Episode 14! Tristan, Emil, and Armand talk Trese, Netflix's first Filipino-language anime. Based on the same-name comic series from Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, the new series follows a police consultant with an unusual ability to uncover supernatural crimes.

Amidst debates over accents and casting choices, today's episode forgoes equally important questions about Choc-Nuts and easily the series' yummiest snacks (Crispin and Basilio, duh!) to highlight the fact that Trese is living in a world where the po-po aren't on a routine schedule of getting high on power and inadvertently killing civilians.

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We're back! On our first episode in 2021, we're doing something different...we're doing a drunk pod! 

And what better films to do it on than those made by Khavn Dela Cruz?! And as if stars have aligned, Khavn has mounted Cinerado, an online film event where you can stream most of Khavn's films for FREE on YouTube (link below!)

Join us in our 13th episode as we fumble our way in a discussion about two Khavn films, "Mondomanila" and "Aswang ng QC". 

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• Balangiga: Howling Wilderness on Netflix
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