Heneral Luna napisil ng Film Academy para sa Foreign category ng Oscars!

MANILA, Philippines – Napili ang Heneral Luna bilang official entry sa 2016 Oscars sa Best Foreign Language Film category. Kasama sa mga pinagpiliang pelikula ang Hari ng Tondo at Taklub.

Inanunsiyo ni Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) director general Leo Martinez ang magandang balita kahapon (Lunes) ng hapon.

Ayon sa Official Facebook Page ng HENERAL LUNA:

We are happy to announce and share with everyone the good news: HENERAL LUNA has been selected as the Philippines’ Official Entry to the 2016 Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film Category!

Isang mensahe naman ang agad na ipinahatid ng executive producer na si Fernando Ortigas at ng producer na si Eduardo A. Rocha, “We are both overjoyed by this great news. There are no words for the tremendous pride and honor that we feel, with the film being chosen to officially represent our country to the Oscars. In a way, it’s most fitting, because this film celebrates us all as a nation, in the richest and most complex of ways. With the movie-going public coming behind us, and now this, there is very little to nothing that we can complain about. Sure, it would help if the movie made all its money back soon. But what we have right now is something that not even money can buy. And for this we are most grateful.”

Prinodyus ang Heneral Luna ng Artikulo Uno Productions sa pagtutulungan ng Tuko and Buchi Boy Films at idinirek naman ito ni Jerrold Tarog na nagbukas nationwide nu’ng September 9.

Ang biopic movie na ito ay base sa buhay ng matapang na si General Luna na ginampanan ni John Arcilla.

Kasama sa powerhouse cast ng Heneral Luna sina Joem Bascon, Archie Alemania, Alex Medina, Mon Confiado, Nonie Buencamio, Arron Villaflor, Epy Quizon, Art Acuna, Jun-Jun Quintana, Mylene Dizon, Bing Pimentel, at sa espesyal na partisipasiyon ni Paulo Avelino.