Monday, January 15, 2007

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

ANNOUNCEMENT! The Mindanao Examiner in association with the Moro Films will conduct a week-long seminar and workshop on film making on February 24.
The workshop is a special hands-on intensive course designed for people who wish to study the art and craft of film making in an intense schedule.
This seminar is also useful for corporate media people engaged in video productions.
For those with little or no film making experience, this workshop offers strong foundation skills through carefully crafted modules aimed at focused learning, hands-on production.
Workshop participants are expected to learn story development, scriptwriting, directing, lighting, editing, sound recording and producing and the opportunity to make fully-realized short films which could be exhibited at film festivals.
The workshop is structured in a way that participants will be able to produce their own 5-minute films towards the end course.
To achieve this end, only 25 participants will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
The film making workshop shall be conducted by Gutierrez Mangansakan II, an award-winning documentary film maker and writer.
His first work 'House under the Crescent Moon' won Best Documentary at the 15th Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 2001. His documentaries have been screened in various international film festivals in Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, US and Europe.
The workshop is P 5,000 per participant, inclusive of seminar venue at hotel in Zamboanga City, lecture kits, workshop IDs, and certificates of training, meal snacks, projector, white board, sound system, back draft and television.
For details and reservation, please contact the Mindanao Examiner or Al Jacinto at telefax 062-9925480 or mobile +63918-9180895 or e-mail us at mindanaoexaminer@gmail.com

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

AFP TOP BRASS DISCUSS OFFENSIVE PLANS AGAINST TERRORISTS IN SULU

AFP TOP BRASS: Military senior officials (L-R) Philippine Army Chief Lt. Gen. Romeo Tolentino, 1st Div. chief Maj. Gen. Reymundo Ferrer, Brig. Gen. Mapagu, and Western Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. Eugenio Cedo listen to a ground military commander on the on going hunt against al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in Jolo island. (PHOTO HANDOUT/PIO-Westmincom)

GOV'T SECURITY KILLS ABU SAYYAF BOMB EXPERT IN SULU

ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZAMBODAILYWIRE/JAN. 10, 07) - - Combined government security forces neutralized a bomb expert leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf during a raid in the jungle of Patikul, Sulu Tuesday night, the military said.
Killed in the operation was Binang Sali alias Freedom, leader and spiritual adviser of the Urban Terrorist Group (UTG), the demolition and liquidation squad of the Abu Sayyaf.
Sali is wanted for kidnapping and series of bombing attacks in Sulu. (MyBreak) -30-

Lamitan LGU calls people: do simple acts to honor freedom

LAMITAN CITY, Basilan - - Lamitan City Mayor Roderick Furigay called on residents to honor the true meaning of freedom by committing themsel...