A short animation written and directed by a De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde film student will next compete at Animahenasyon 15: The 2021 Philippine Animation Festival from Nov. 12 to 14.
This after the animated film CITSALP by Jean A. Evangelista won the Porto Cesareo Film Festival Marine Protected Area Award or “the best audiovisual work dedicated to the sea” in Italy.
CITSALP, which tells about the negative effects of plastics in the world and the responsible consumption and production of plastics, is a collaboration among Evangelista and animators Ria Caluya, Shane Sitchon, Adrienne Jade, Aljean Respecia Uyan, Jlo Casa, and Ria Morales, editor Ayen Alvarez, sound designers John Patrick Perez and Dan Verzosa, production manager Arkin Tracy Tendilla, assistant directors Verzosa and Lawrence Soriano, and musical scorer Hannah Felix.
Evangelista, who received a cash prize of 700 euros from Porto Cesareo, is “very thankful for the award” to the organizers and to her team, Project CITSALP, which has been “the heart and soul of the film.”
“I never thought that this film would push through because I didn’t have any illustrators and animators before. In addition, I was highly depressed when this film was in production,” Evangelista revealed.
Porto Cesareo Film Festival artistic director Anna Seviroli shared that the selection committee viewed and evaluated “about 3,000 works from all over the world including shorts, mini shorts, documentaries from Italy, Mexico, India, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom, Egypt, United States, Iran, and Spain.”
