MANILA, Philippines - Eduardo Roy Jr.’s IGNA, a finalist in this year’s Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in July, has been accepted at the 2012 Hong Kong Asia Financing Forum (HAF) from March 19 to 22 at the Hong Kong Convention Center.
IGNA is about a woman of timeless youth who lives in Sagada and is about to be proclaimed as the world’s oldest living woman in the world. As the town pursues her right to claim the title, a strange premonition appears — Igna’s death has been apparently set.
IGNA will be Roy’s second feature film after Bahay Bata (Baby Factory) which won a special mention at last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival.
It is slated to compete for its European premiere in March and has also been invited to the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Southeast Asian Film Festival to be held at the Singapore Art Museum also both in March.
Roy with producer Ferdinand Lapuz and executive producer Almond Derla will attend HAF.
This is the fifth project of Lapuz to be selected at HAF after Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis and Kinatay in 2008 and 2009 respectively, Francis Pasion’s Sampaguita, National Flower (2009) and Jeffrey Jeturian’s Bisperas last year.