PROJECT TROPICAL STORM

At the eve of September 23, 2009, the deadliest storm to ever hit Metro Manila in history was forming to the northwest of Palau. With a deceptively slow start, Typhoon Ondoy began to intensify and by September 26 2009, a state of calamity was announced throughout Luzon with Typhoon Ondoy bringing more than a month’s worth of rainfall in just a few days. With hours of continuously heavy rain, Metro Manila experienced flooding in some rural areas that reached a record of 20 feet high.

News of tragedy and tales of heroism have flooded online networking websites such as Facebook, and bloggers have been documenting the stories seen from their own perspective with an overwhelming outpour of support being mobilized via the Internet. As the Philippines attempt to survive this national ordeal, the Cinemanila International Film Festival is organizing a Sine Barangay outdoor screening in tribute to the flood victims. From video footages to eyewitness accounts, a Moving Images Compilation will be produced. With the definition of a Moving Image as video art, interactive media, video and computer animations and new media art, prominent local filmmakers will create a Visual Compilation of Moving Images gathered from different sources of any video footage, slide shows and interviews as experienced by different walks of people that faced a common, uniting crisis. To be shown in the Sine Barangay Caravan, Project Tropical Storm will give a firsthand look at the Filipino people as they face head-on the adversity brought on by Tropical Storm Ondoy.

PROJECT TROPICAL STORM : Mga Imahe sa Loob ng Bagyong Ondoy

Neck-deep in the flood crisis brought on by Tropical Storm Ondoy, the Filipino nation is still reeling from the blows dealt by the deadly storm. Every Filipino has experienced Tropical Storm Ondoy in one way or another and the Cinemanila International Film Festival wants to know what you’ve gone through!

• Submit any video footage captured by your phone or collection of photos as Storm Ondoy rages through the country and the large-scale destruction it left on its wake.

• And with everyone contributing and joining relief efforts, you can submit your images and stories of heroism and volunteerism that you and your friends are still continually carrying out.

• With the Filipinos’ penchant to find the lighter side of things while going through a crisis, be sure to submit any Ondoy video or photo that manages to make you smile as we live through these times of national adversity.

You can submit video footages and photos to cinemanila.info@gmail.com.

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