Reblog if you secretly wished for a letter from Hogwarts.
I did :(I will live in denial and believe the owl got lost.
When I turned 11 I sat by our front door a majority of the day waiting for my letter LOL :(
Mum has an awkward family video of it.Uhm. I believe that owls just can’t travel this far. So it probably got tired somewhere and like, died. That’s why I never got my letter. Dumbledore probably felt really bad, because you know. I can just tell he wanted me to go.
You know, it’s never too late. ;;)
IT GOT LOST IN THE MAIL OKAY.
the owl died. :((
I just love the element of surprise. Artistry + Discipline. I wish we have a version of this.
Reblogging Alexis Tioseco's Entry
ADDENDUM
⊲ I wish that the Film Development Council of the Philippines would understand the value of the money they’re given and consider going to Paris and spending five million of their 25 million allotment for a showcase given by a young festival as an investment, and not just a vacation.
⊲ I hope they support filmmakers with finished work to go abroad to festivals for the pride they bring their country—I wish instead they would support their films locally, and help them get seen by larger Filipino audiences.
⊲ I cry for the loss of Manuel Conde’s Juan Tamad films.
⊲ I cry for a country that can’t convince a single Filipino-American who owns the only known print of Conde’s Genghis Khan in its original language to return (i.e. sell) the film back to his mother country.
⊲ I cry for the generations of Filipinos, myself included, that can no longer see Gerry De Leon’s Daigdig ng Mga Api, and instead have scans of movie ads to admire on the internet.
⊲ I mourn a heritage that has allowed the prints of Mario O’Hara’s Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos and Peque Gallaga’s Oro, Plata, Mata to turn flush sepia through neglect.
⊲ I cry for a Union and University of the Philippines that conspire in apathy to let the master negatives of treasures produced by Bancom to rot in rooms only air conditioned half the day and in cans untouched for years and years.
⊲ I pray for a Senator or Congressman to take the courageous step of drafting a bill to help establish a National Film and Sound archive.
⊲ I pray a city government or even enterprising and concerned theater owners will consider settings aside 50 centavos or a peso of a ticket to go toward the preservation of our national audiovisual heritage. There have been flood taxes siphoned from movie tickets. For crying out loud, this should be easy!
⊲ I wish Cinemalaya which, thanks to the media and government mileage behind it has a great festive excitement, would actually put their efforts in service of Philippine cinema, and not in their own self-involved attempt to start a micro-industry.
⊲ I wish filmmakers would stop listening to Robbie Tan.
⊲ I wish Cinema one, which often produces better films than Cinemalaya, would actually give filmmakers some rights to their work and stop swindling them.
⊲ I wish Lav Diaz had larger budgets to maneuver and shoot with.
⊲ I wish Raymond Red would get to make Makapili and return to making fantastic shorts in the experimental mode.
⊲ I wish Mike De Leon would make another movie… . Please … we need it.
⊲ I wish Roxlee would get enough money to buy the time to make an animated feature.
⊲ I wish everyone would buy a copy of Nicanor Tiongson and Cesar Hernando’s The Cinema of Manuel Conde.
⊲ I wish there were more books on Philippine cinema.
⊲ I wish there were a series of classic screenplays that would get published.
⊲ I wish Cinefilipino would have put out Maalaala Mo Kaya with the reels in the proper order.
⊲ I wish Cinefilipino would have put our their Brocka titles with just a little bit of care and affection, providing some writing on the film or some features, and didn’t just throw them out there to earn.
⊲ I wish Nestor Torre would open his eyes …
⊲ I wish the Manunuri books on Philippine cinema in the 70s and 80s would go back in print.
⊲ I wish the Manunuri actually cared about Philippine cinema today.
⊲ I wish the Manunuri actually reviewed films instead of just giving out awards.
⊲ I wish the Young Critics Circle were actually young.
⊲ I wish the Young Critics Circle were actually critics.
⊲ I wish Francis “Oggs” Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they’re far more interesting than anyone writing regularly there today.
⊲ I wish Noel Vera would move back.
⊲ I wish Hammy Sotto was still alive.
⊲ I wish Hammy Sotto’s manuscripts would get published.
⊲ I wish Jo Atienza was still in Manila.
⊲ I wish we had a fully supported Film Museum.
⊲ I wish we had a Cinematheque.
⊲ I wish the UP Film Center had better seats and showed good films.
⊲ I wish more non-filmmakers from the Philippines would get to travel to festivals.
⊲ I wish film were taught in high schools.
⊲ I wish Teddy Co would get the recognition that he deserves for his selfless work.
⊲ I wish Teddy Co would write more, as his ideas deserve to be recorded.
⊲ I wish co-ops would co-operate.
⊲ I wish Khavn De La Cruz would get to make his musical EDSA XXX.
⊲ I wish the Max Santiago feature would get made, and that shorts would finally come to my hands on DVD (Hi Marla!)
⊲ I wish Tad Ermitaño never stops writing and playing in his cave.
⊲ I wish Lourd De Veyra continues writing on actors and cinema.
⊲ I wish Raymond Lee UFO successes.
⊲ I wish we had more regional feature films and more support for regional filmmakers.
⊲ I wish everyone would watch When Timawa Meets Delgado.
⊲ I wish someone would lower MTRCB rates for screenings fees, especially for festivals.
⊲ I wish someone, anyone, would make a good, thought-provoking film about the Philippine upper-class.
⊲ I wish Ketchup Eusebio would get more leading roles.
⊲ I wish Elijah Castillo gets to do a lot more films, soon.
⊲ I wish Cesar Hernando would get to transfer Botika, Bituka.
⊲ I wish filmmakers had some integrity and told Viva to screw themselves when offered another exploitation film.
⊲ I wish more people could see the film Bontoc Eulogy.
⊲ I wish Vic Del Rosario wasn’t presidential advisor on Entertainment, given the shlock they produce, and, yes, that includes the films which starred First-Son Mikey Arroyo.
⊲ I wish Star Cinema would stop … just stop.
⊲ I wish there was a film library that people could go to and read books on cinema.
⊲ I wish the MMFF wasn’t handled by the same people who install public urinals (admittedly useful).
⊲ I wish the MMDA didn’t call those circles and boxes Art.
⊲ I wish that MMDA Art wasn’t so much better than every MMFF film.
⊲ I wish Philippine cinema all the success in the world …
