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The joy of first love. The thrill of your first date. The sweetness of your first kiss. The pain of your first heartbreak. Remember all these awesome memories in "2 Cool 2 Be 4Gotten," a youth movie starring rising acclaimed young actor Khalil Ramos and newcomers Jameson Blake and Ethan Salvador. "2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten," Best Picture winner of the most recent Cinema Originals, opens in cinemas nationwide on March 15.

A promising and diverse line-up which features ten stories on comedy, drama, romantic comedy, and animation have made the cut for this year’s Cinema One Originals finalists, coming from a pool of veteran and up-and-coming film makers who are allocated with P2 million each to showcase their films in November for the annual film fest. Raymond Red, the only Filipino who has won the coveted Palme D’Or in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival is back in the film competition scene with his Cinema One Originals 2015 entry, “Mga Rebeldeng May Kaso,” a youth drama film revolving on the aftermath of the 1986 People Power Revolution which spawns a group of young dreamers who immerse themselves in the culture of independent and alternative cinema.

Here the complete list of the winners of the recent Cinema One Originals Film Festival 2014 Awards Night. Audience Choice: Antoinette Jadaone's That Thing Called Tadhana Biogesic ingat na damang dama sineserye short film award: Antoinette Jadaone's Ang Nanay Kong Noisy Best Sound: Corinne De San Jose, Violator

 2014 Cinema One Originals Festival opening night lived up to its “intense” theme. The event was intense as hundreds flocked to Trinoma Cinema 7 to catch director Elwood Perez’s 51st feature film, “Esoterika: Maynila.” Written by Elwood Perez in collaboration with columnist Jessica Zafra, “Esoterika: Maynila” follows the story of Mario, a restaurant worker who transforms himself into a literary artist. The cast are Ronnie Liang, Boots Anson Roa, Vince Tañada, Carlos Celdran, Snooky Serna, Lance Raymundo, Jon Hall, and Cecile Guidote Alvarez. Perez says that his new film is inspired by his youth and personal experiences.

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary of constantly supporting the growth of the local film industry, Cinema One has finally announced its selection of ten films for the upcoming Cinema One Originals Festival. On this special year, Cinema One has chosen to allocate a budget of P2-million for the production of these ten selected films, all carefully chosen out of numerous submissions upon its call for entries during the festival’s previous year. The ten films chosen were those by directors Jay Abello, Nash Ang, Kanakan Balintagos, Sigrid Andrea Bernardo, Eduardo Dayao, Alec Figuracion, Antoinette Jadaone, Malay Javier, Paolo O’Hara, and Remton Siega Zuasola. Jay Abello’s film entitled “Red” is an action film of how mere gossip rocked a town’s circuit of local drug dealers, junkies, and vagabonds in Bacolod. Red, a legendary fixer in the underground world of Visayas, is called to patch things up—but he soon finds himself framed for the very thing he was asked to repair, forced into decisi...

Cinema One is still accepting entries for the film festival that showcases the most original of visions and most unique of voices, as it recently announced an extension in the deadline for submission until February 14, 2014 Friday. All submissions should be complete full scripts for a narrative feature length film. The film script should tackle a commercially viable Filipino story with universal themes. The filmmaker submitting these script entries should be ready to discuss the sellable and marketable points of the proposed film project.