Two Nights, Two Worlds: A Silverton Encore of the Filipino and Colorado Films from the 2025 Ouray International Film Fest.
Friday October 24th Filipino Film: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1774641824469?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday October 25th Colorado Film: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1774745063259?aff=oddtdtcreator
Both Friday and Saturday: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1774756326949?aff=oddtdtcreator
FRIDAY NIGHT
The Daydream Believers.
Six Filipino-American directors. Six films. One American Dream. Welcome to the diaspora. Films curated by H.P. Mendoza. Winner of OIFF 2025 Grand Jury Prize.
When You Left Me on That Boulevard. Directed by Kayla Abuda Galang.
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie's house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
Fidel. Directed by Luke Lace.
A young Filipino man learns to be the caregiver of his abusive grandmother who suffers from dementia, only to be mistaken as her old lover.
VS. Directed by Joel Sanchez.
Set in 1992, a Filipino kid working at his father's liquor store seeks community through the arcade game Street Fighter II, but finds himself clashing with a local bully and ultimately at odds with his father.
DOG, BRUH! Directed by Katja!
In 1995 Los Angeles, Filipino teen Shawn sets out to ask his best friend Nico’s sister to the prom that night. He does so by affixing onto himself a caricature of a Black person, and therefore must realize that doing so is wrong, on so many levels. Eventually, he gets help from his favorite rapper, and runs to apologize to Nico before Nico leaves for the prom himself.
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks. Directed by Kayla Abuda Galang.
A lonely library worker discovers abandoned items tucked between returned book pages, sparking his imagination as he pieces together the lives and tales behind each mysterious memento.