Two esteemed directors to talk in film workshop

Multi-awarded filmmakers and movie writers Peque Gallaga and Lorenzo “Lore” Reyes will be the facilitators in the first regional workshop on film, television directing, acting, and production design slated at the University of Baguio on July 1 and 2. 

It will be a first for the younger generation to listen to the two renowned directors, especially to Gallaga who made breakthroughs in film directing in the early 1980s.

The UB Mass Communications Department and the   Association of the Philippine Colleges of Arts and Sciences are the main organizers of the two-day workshop to be held at the FGB Hall. 

While the workshop is intended for mass communications and AB English students and teachers, the event is open to all interested students and teachers in the Cordillera region and nearby provinces.

As backgrounder, Gallaga’s most significant achievement in film is “Oro, Plata, Mata” (Gold, Silver, Death), which he directed after winning a scriptwriting contest sponsored by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines in 1981.

Two years later, Gallaga, who is known for his eccentric hairstyles, received an award from the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent in Belgium. He is also a recipient of a Special Jury Award from the Manila International Film Festival.

Since directing his first feature-length film in 1971, Gallaga has directed more than 20 films in partnership with Lore Reyes who has likewise been a longtime associate in his other passion — conducting acting, directing, and production workshops for film and television talents and film-makers.
He was also deeply involved in the academe being once a drama teacher and mass communications teacher in De La Salle College in Manila and Bacolod. He was also a facilitator of the Actors Workshop Foundation, Negros Summer workshop, and ABS-CBN workshops. 

Reyes, on the other hand, won the best director award conferred by the Metro Manila Film Festival in 1996 for the movie Magic Temple, which he shared with Gallaga.