Sundalong Kanin Best Film at Manhattan filmfest

MANILA, Philippines - Sundalong Kanin bagged the Best Feature Film Global at the recently-concluded International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM). The film screenings were held last Oct. 23 to 25 at the Producers Club 358 W 44 St.NYC.

Directed by Janice O’Hara and written by Jerry O’Hara, Sundalong Kanin is a film set in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, wherein the story revolves around four young boys determined to become soldiers and fight for their country. The film is produced by Sheila Bugia-Ambray of Front Media Entertainment.

Sundalong Kanin was Janice’s directorial debut entry to the 2014 Cinemalaya Film Festival under the New Breed Category. It won the Audience’s Choice Award during that festival.

Sundalong Kanin also garnered the Inding-Indie Gawad Parangal Asian Best Indie Movie Excellence Award 2015 by the founder of Inding-Indie Film Festival, director Ron Sapinoso, for its wholesome and uniqueness in acting and story flow. Also set to receive an Inding-Indie Gawad Parangal Most Promising Actor of Indie Films are the cast members who played the four young boys, Nathaniel Brit, Isaac Cain Aguirre, Elijah Canlas and Akira Morishita.

IFFM is committed to showcasing entertaining and diverse films in all genres and scope to equal the diversity of New York. It is also committed in exploring all opportunities to promote the artists. The other featured films were Asintado directed by Louie Ignacio and Lihis by Joel Lamangan.

IFFM 2015 featured diversified films from the USA, Israel, Belarus, Singapore, Australia and a special spotlight of the Philippines in celebration of the October Filipino History Month in the US. The festival is sponsored by GMA Pinoy TV, GMA Life TV and GMA News TV International.