SHORT FEATURE CATEGORY
Audience Choice Award
The Audience Choice Award for the Cinemalaya Short Feature Film goes to
KIKO
By JOJO DRIZ
Best Screenplay
For its compelling tale of a young boy in a small community facing an environmental disaster, the BEST SCREENPLAY goes to
CHRISTIAN CANDELARIA
for SA SAIYANG ISLA
Best Direction
For his competent melding of the resources of cinema to portray the conflict between tradition and sexual identity, the BEST DIRECTION goes to
XEPH SUAREZ
for SI ASTRI MAKA SI TAMBULAH
Special Jury Prize
For its sensitive take on the clash between steadfast tradition and sexual liberation, the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE goes to
SI ASTRI MAKA SI TAMBULAH
by XEPH SUAREZ
Best Film
For its general technical excellence and its vigorous satire on the problems in the Philippines, the BEST FILM goes to
JODILERKS DE LA CRUZ, EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
by CARLO FRANCISCO MANATAD
FULL-LENGTH FILMS
Audience Choice Award
The Audience Choice Award for the Cinemalaya Full-Length Feature Film goes to
LIWAY
By KIP OEBANDA
Best Sound
For its dynamic design that conjoins dialogue and music, sounds and silence that altogether powerfully evoke an environment otherwise riven by conflict and bloodshed, the BEST SOUND AWARD goes to
WILDSOUND
for MUSMOS NA SUMIBOL SA GUBAT NG DIGMA
Best Original Music Score
For its original music as well as its clever adaptation of folk music that enhances the audience’s belief in an enchanted world, the award for BEST
MUSiC SCORE goes to
LEN CALVO
for PAN DE SALAWAL
Best Editing
For its deft montage of images that powerfully conjure the horrors of authoritarian rule, the BEST EDITING AWARD goes to
MIKAEL PESTANO
for ML
Best Production Design
For its inspired art direction that effectively complements characterization and evokes the wages of old age, the BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN AWARD goes to
MARIELLE HIZON
for KUNG PAANO HINIHINTAY ANG DAPITHAPON
Best Cinematography
For its very effective employment of photographic resources to depict the decline of years and the waste of relationships, the BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD goes to
NEIL DAZA
for KUNG PAANO HINIHINTAY ANG DAPITHAPON
Best Screenplay
For taking as its subject matter a sector that’s relegated to the margins of society, and its poignant take on old age and dying, the BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD goes to
JOHN CARLO PACALA
for KUNG PAANO HINIHINTAY ANG DAPITHAPON
Best Performance by a Supporting Actor
For effectively evoking pathos and poignancy in his portrayal of a loving son, the BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR goes to
KETCHUP EUSEBIO
for MAMANG
Best Performance by a Supporting Actress
The Cinemalaya 2018 Jury declares a TIE in this category. It is giving this award to ONE actress but for TWO movies.
For her very gritty portrayal in one film of a young woman of the streets, and for her very sensitive depiction in another of a daughter with a troubled relationship with her mom, the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS AWARD goes to
THERESE MALVAR
for SCHOOL SERVICE and DISTANCE
Best Direction
For impressively using the resources of cinema to evoke in a very convincing manner a world of utter enchantment, the BEST DIRECTOR AWARD goes to
CHE ESPIRITU
for PAN DE SALAWAL
Best Performance by an Actor
For his wickedly frightening portrayal—himself embodying the horrors of a dark past, the BEST ACTOR AWARD goes to
EDDIE GARCIA
for ML
Best Performance by an Actress
For her very realistic portrayal of a hateful woman trying to retain a modicum of humanity in her, the BEST ACTRESS AWARD goes to
AI-AI DE LAS ALAS
of SCHOOL SERVICE
Special Jury Citation for Acting
The Board of Jurors takes note of the strong performances of children that have distinguished a number of movies in this year’s Cinemalaya festival. For this reason, the Board is giving a SPECIAL JURY CITATION FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE for the following child-actors:
MIEL ESPINOSA
for PAN DE SALAWAL
JM SALVADO
for MUSMOS NA SUMIBOL SA GUBAT NG DIGMA
and PAN DE SALAWAL
and
KENKEN NUYDA
for LIWAY
and SCHOOL SERVICE
Special Jury Commendation
Likewise the Board of Jurors takes special note of the particularly strong lineup of movies in the Main Competition of the 2018 Cinemalaya. In particular, it would like to make a SPECIAL JURY COMMENDATION of one film.
For its timely subject matter and for its writer-director who courageously opened himself up to share with others his very revealing past, the SPECIAL JURY COMMENDATION goes to
LIWAY
by KIP OEBANDA
Special Jury Prize
For its vibrancy and vigor, its sense of wonder and poignant humor, and its effective conjuring of a suffering world where miracles are possible, the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE goes to
PAN DE SALAWAL
by CHE ESPIRITU
Best Film
For its general technical excellence, for its powerful ensemble acting by some of the most august names in Philippine cinema, and for its sensitive depiction of decline and decrepitude, the BEST FILM AWARD goes to
KUNG PAANO HINIHINTAY ANG DAPITHAPON
by CARLO ENCISO CATU