Cinemalaya 2019 Winners

Complete List of Winners Cinemalaya Year 15

Best Film: “John Denver Trending” by Arden Rod Condez
NETPAC Award: “John Denver Trending” by Arden Rod Condez
Special Jury Award: “Edward” by Thop Nazareno
Best Actor: “John Denver Trending” actor Jansen Magpusao
Best Actress: “Iska” actress Ruby Ruiz
Best Supporting Actor: “Fuccbois” actor Ricky Davao
Best Supporting Actress: “Edward” actress Ella Cruz
Audience Choice: “Belle Douleur” by Joji Alonso
Best Sound: “Iska”
Best Original Music Score: “John Denver Trending”
Best Editing: “John Denver Trending”
Best Production Design: “Edward”
Best Cinematography: “John Denver Trending”
Best Screenplay: “Iska”
Best Director: “Fuccbois” director Eduardo Roy Jr.

SHORT FILMS

Best Short Feature Film: “Wag Mo ‘Kong Kausapin” by Josef Gacutan
NETPAC Award: “Disconnection Notice” by Glenn Averia
NETPAC Award Special Mention: “Sa Among Agwat” by Don Senoc
Special Jury Award: “Tembong” by Shaira Advincula
Special Mention for Subject Matter: “Hele ng Maharlika” by Norvin delos Santos
Audience Choice: “Heist School” by Julius Renomeron Jr.
Best Screenplay: “Kontrolado ni Girly and Buhay N’ya” by Gilb Baldoza
Best Director: “Sa Among Agwat” director Don Senoc

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Chris Millado

JUDGES

Dr. Andreas Ungerböck
Park Kiyong
Keith Sicat
Dwein Baltazar
Mes de Guzman

NETPAC Jury:

Indu Shrikent
Kan Lume
Jerrold Tarog

This years entries:

Full-length Films:

“Ani (The Harvest)” by Kim Zuñiga and Sandro Del Rosario
“Belle Douleur ( A Beautiful Pain)” by Joji V. Alonso
“Children of the River” by Maricel Cariaga
“Edward” by Thop Nazareno
“Fuccbois” by Eduardo Roy Jr.
“Iska” by Theodore Boborol
“John Denver Trending” by Arden Rod Condez
“Malamaya” by Danica Sta. Lucia and Leilani Chavez
“Pandanggo sa Hukay” by Sheryl Rose Andes
“Tabon” by Xian Lim

Short Films:

“Wag Mo ‘Kong Kausapin” by Josef Dielle Gacutan
“Disconnection Notice” by Glenn Lowell Averia
“Gatilyo” by Harold Lance Pialda
“Heist School” by Julius Renomeron Jr.
“Hele ng Maharlika” (Lullabye of the Free) by Norvin de los Santos
“Kontrolado ni Girly ang Buhay N’ya” by Gilb Baldoza
“Sa Among Agwat” by Don Senoc
“Sa Gabing Tanging Liwanag ay Paniniwala” by Francis Amir Guillermo
“Tembong” (Connecting) by Shaira Advincula
“The Shoemaker” by Sheron Dayoc

I Love ACE Water Spa

I miss my wife, I miss going here with my wife.

Aside from my wife, I love ACE Water Spa because of many reasons.

The Hydrotherapy Massage experience is heaven. From soft, moderate up to hard massage you will surely feel a great relief after.

After going for an hour of Hydrotherapy Massage the herbal pools, steam and sauna are also a very good experience to do at ACE.

And of course, you can't leave the spa with spending some exercise at the lapping pool.

For more info visit their site http://www.acewaterspa.com.ph/

Recommended Soft Massage

Bubble Bed
Lay Down Comfortably On The Designed Bubble Bed To Fully Feel The Air And Bubbles Emitted On The Surface Through Small Holes As It Slightly Beats Down Your Back, Buttocks And Feet.

Bubble Pool
This Facility Effectively Massages The Temporal Pressure Points Specifically On The Back Portion Of The Legs And Hip Area.

Bubble Massage
This System Has An Effect Of "Feel Good All Over" After Bathing As Air Combined With Warm Water Comes Out On Holes At The Floor Surface That Massages The Body.

Hydro-Acupuncture Bed
It Produces The Effects Of Acupuncture That Allows A Person To Enjoy The Pricking Sensation Through The Use Of High Pressure Warm Water With Air Coming From The Tiny Holes Within The Bed Surface.

Meditation can improve brain memory

In this world of chaos and confusion, it is hard to meditate. Here are few personal moments where you can meditate without putting too much effort and of course talking to yourself is one way. Here's a list which you can apply.

1. While sitting on the toilet. Imagine that you are the king of the world. Close your eyes and rise...as the ocean sound...feel the waves...devoid of your emotions.

2. Massage. Close your eyes and empty your mind. Feel the flow of energy the body is getting from the hands of the masseur. You are the King and the controller of peace.

3. Running relax a 3 kilometer. In today's run, it was like meditation. At first was hard to get a drive and motivation but thanks to my running buddy, I feel like doing this run like it's my daily routine.
When you run, you meditate. Try running very very slow and listen to your breathing, you will feel an inner peace.

4. The glow feeling after the run is because the body comes out happy hormones. This meditation is tried and tested.

5. I learned today the monks has a meditation technique where they walked really really slow, my Thai friend said it really helps you focus your mind and concentrate on one thing. It gives a better relaxation and inner satisfaction. A must try experience in Thailand.

6. Danni Ugali, a filipino filmmaker shares how he meditates. I usually meditate while on board, I make myself relax by putting cooling eye mask if available, if not sleeping mask will do. If it's a long haul flight, I bring coloring books or sketch pad to draw. It is also one way of meditation while moving. 

Reasons For Massage

There are many ways to relax and enjoy. You can have a massage or do an exercise. In this blog post we list down many reasons why people loves massage.

1. Massage therapy is love. You can really remove your stress when you're in a massage. You can always read 100spa.blogspot.com

2. Massage can revive your energy. If you have problems with sleeping or eating. Get a good massage and make your body feel better. You can achieve a good weight loss and enough sleep for sure.

3. Massage can be a help to calm down your heart beat, blood pressure and energy.

4. In massage, You gain happiness. You can help your family by feeling good.

5. Many people considers massage as cure for insomia and vertigo plus erectile dysfunction.

6. Share your favorite massage reason. Comment below

Spada Cubao Long Time Ago

Another chance brought me to Spada Cubao because I have a gay friend who reads my blog and wants to know if he can choose male therapists here. His objective is to choose a cute guy to give him a satisfying massage. I suggested him to try FHM or Linggam.

I haven't been here for a long time....We came from a party.

He got a female therapist, and my other friend got a male one.

He had a female bit old therapist, with my first time it's Akiko, 30+ medium rare. She is a negative vibes. I didn't feel any welcome and accommodation on her. She gives a good strike at first but later on her massage becomes lazy. If you happen to caught Akiko as your therapist change her immediately.

As always SPADA never fails to give a happy ending. For the amount of 500 pesos you get an HJ for a good extra service.

SPADA is a wellness center for men an women and operates 24/7. Located at P. Tuazon Avenue besides Unioil gas station and near Ali Mall.

Red is the color of SPADA. The therapists are sitting around watching TV and they will make you feel welcome at really at home.

I smiled upon checking their menu. They've got FHM (For Him Massage) and LINGGAM massage (their specialty). So I asked what kind of massage are they?

FHM is a sensual whole body massage and a little bit of the genital parts, it costs 550 pesos for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Linggam is a more sensual body massage and focus on the genital parts, it costs 900 pesos for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

The cheapest massage that they offer is the Spada massage. It is an ordinary massage like other spa have, it costs 350 pesos good for one hour.

I choose to have the cheapest massage but in my mind I'd also like to try FHM and Linggam.

The Verdict of my friend:

Ratings: 3/5
Lobby Area: Feel at home

CR: dirty and dark
Shower: ok lang not bad

Massage Room: bad area, you get a stiif neck lying on the floor
Bed: no hole nasa sahig lang
Linen: bad smell
Towel: ang tigas at ang gaspang
Robe: pwede na
Therapist: worth the pay

Hot Towel:      Yes
Dry Sauna:     None
Parking:     Yes it can accomodate 4 cars
Home Service:     Yes even hotel services
Free Wi-Fi:     Yes
Socket: None
Masseur Type:     Male & Female
Signature:     Spada, FHM, Linggam
Extra Service: yes
Extra Service:  Yes

My Experience: Just OK

Headtown Salon and Spa

Massage is also a form of love. It is a personal feeling that you can physically express to your loved ones. With the gentle touch of your hands you can ease someone in pain and body aches. You can take care of your partner thru massage. And when you feel good you can transfer this energy, you can use this as an expression of love.

Do you often that not misinterpret this feeling with someone else. Hmmm imagine...

With work you get stress...when working at home it also gives you stress. How do you deal with it?

It is important to make sure you get rest. Rest means you stop doing everything even if it's thinking. And when you stop everything, you give yourself a relaxing state of mind. When you are at rest, it is the best time to get a massage. Feel it...you deserve it.

Located in the bustling city of Makati, her newest venture called Headtown Salon and Spa takes enormous pride in bringing out the best in every person. "We want our salon to be an Urban Beauty retreat where clients can experience total beauty and relaxation at an easy access location."

The beauty and pampering hub offers world-class styling, hair dressing and pampering that go beyond fab and fad. Whether it's a change in your 'do, a mid-day massage, or a fabulous makeover to get you in the mood for a night out, Headtown Salon and Spa guarantees that you'll leave the salon looking and feeling like a royalty.

If you're looking for a great place to spend the day for a rejuvenating beauty treat, then you've come to the right salon. Headtown Salon and Spa has an innovative pool of stylists that takes good care of your beauty needs. Ensuring luxury experience that represents the top standards of the hair, beauty and pampering industry, the entire team, as headed by its salon owner Ms. Det Sarrol-Fuentes, guarantees clients of an amazing glow and quality me-time.

What sets Headtown Salon and Spa apart from its contemporaries is that it has a unique styling space, with exclusive VIP rooms that allow professional and freelance make-up artists to book a space for their clients, and double as a venue for workshops and events. And as a way to empower women to express their individuality, the top-notch full-service salon offers one-on-one tutorial services for hair styling and basic make-up application.

With inclusivity and empowerment as two of their core values, the beauty startup positions itself as a game-changing potential that is emblematic of what the salon industry should be: fearless, bold, and constantly evolving with the times.

A Solemn Massage

Try SOLEMN MASSAGE & SPA 

Located at 77 Corregidor St., Bago Bantay Quezon City. 

Near SM North Edsa and LRT Roosevelt Station.

Clean and relaxing place that offers Therapeutic and Wellness Massage, Facial Treatments and Foot & Nail Treatments.

Contact number: 09176388341

SPA PARTY PACKAGE
3,500 for 6 persons

Exclusive use of the spa for 3 hours
Includes the following services per guest: 
60 mins Whole Body Massage and 
Foot Spa w/ Pedicure and Manicure or Whitening and Soothing Body Scrub

A Cure For Wellness

A superb storyteller and a master of pacing, director Gore Verbinski, along with an impressive cast that includes Dane DeHaan, Mia Goth and Jason Isaacs creates an unsettling, ominous atmosphere throughout “A Cure for Wellness”, immersing the audience in the world of the spa, where nothing is clear or straightforward.

                When Lockhart (DeHaan) arrives at Volmer’s  (Isaacs) sanitarium, he assumes that his mission will be simple: he will talk to Pembroke, his boss, and persuade him to come back to New York.

But Pembroke doesn’t want to leave. Nobody leaves. As the plot unfolds, we experience Lockhart’s mounting anxiety. In danger of losing his sanity, whom can he trust? Lockhart agrees to undergo a course of treatment administered by the doctor and his team after his accident going back without Pembroke.

Lockhart becomes friendly with Hannah (Goth) and together they set about uncovering the menacing secrets of the institute and its history. Far younger than the other patients, Hannah has spent her whole life at the Volmer Institute. Dr. Volmer takes care of her and she has minimal knowledge of the outside world.

                “When we’re first introduced to Hannah, she comes across as this extremely naive and sheltered young woman,” says Goth about her character. “She’s never been encouraged or felt the need to question what it is that Volmer or the sanitarium represents.

And I think that’s because she has this remarkable ability to see the good and the beauty in all things.

On one level, it really is a father and daughter relationship between Hannah and Volmer, and there is a lot of deep love and respect there.

She has come to love and depend on her jailer,” says Goth, elaborating on the complex relationship between Hannah and Volmer.
             
                Dr. Volmer’s lifesaving ‘cure’ involves supposedly ‘healing water’ at the spa, which he utilizes for his highly unconventional approach to medicine.

There are fascinating allusions to European mineral spas with their emphasis on cleansing, rejuvenation and revitalization. As the audience will soon discover, Dr. Volmer’s bizarre experimental therapies have a very different focus from the healing baths at the European spas.

The audience is right there with Lockhart as he endures the treatments that will allegedly heal him of his condition.

                What exactly are those treatments? “Without giving too much away, there are a lot of eels involved! There is a sensory deprivation chamber; there is some pretty intense dental work! I truly get tortured throughout the movie,” laughs DeHaan who had several sessions in an isolation tank.

“First I was in the tank, and then I was in the dentist chair. I call it my week of torture. That’s a week I’ll never forget. It’s supposed to be scary and it was scary!”

                According to Verbinski, it’s not just the patients who are experiencing Dr. Volmer’s cure. The film is so immersive that audience members almost feel as though they are enduring the treatment along with the protagonist.

“What’s nice is that we’re perpetrating crimes upon the audience,” says Verbinski. “There’s a treatment that is happening to Lockhart and you are observing what is happening to him with the treatment, with the experiments at the sanitarium.

But the question is: who is the patient? Is the patient Lockhart or is it the audience? That’s what fascinates me about this genre; we’re taking people into a darkened room and performing a psychological experiment on them. I’ve set out to analyze the moviegoer; I wanted to ‘diagnose’ the audience and then offer a cure. And we’re giving them a good story to keep them involved.”

A whole new way of healing

A whole new way of healing  at JAB Hauz of Zen Holistic Center

With the fast moving cars, industries and even our lives – taking care of ourselves are often forgotten.

JAB Hauz of Zen holistic center  brings a whole new way of treating its patients by using both modern science and traditional way of healing both the body and our well being. Using only the best and natural ingredients to prescribe, to using natural methods in healing ailments, JAB Hauz of Zen brings only the best of both worlds to its patients.

PEOPLE BEHIND JAB HAUZ OF ZEN

Doctor Bong Ramirez is the head physician, Proprietor  and President of JAB Hauz of Zen, A strong believer of Alternative medicine, he has been practicing the different modals of alternative medicine for 15 years and is able to build a great clientele as being part of the medicine team for Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition and as a co host with Dr. Nonoy Zuniga at Med Talk with Dr. Z.

Ms. Mary Joy Jasmin is the Vice president and Finance manager of JAB Hauz of Zen and also the head of Miss J cleansing soap. She believes that Being healthy with the use of God’s given ingredients would make any person be more alive and healthier than the synthetic materials that are given today.

Mr. Angelo Almonte is the Vice President of JAB Hauz of Zen and is also a strong believer that healing the body using alternative methods not just heals the body but also the soul of the patient.

SERVICES

Spearheading its line of services, JAB Hauz of Zen introduces the Eye Spa – a method using only organic and natural ingredients in removing bad bacteria to the eyes to clean, relax and cure eye problems such as cataracts, glaucoma and prevent future eye diseases.

Only JAB Hauz of Zen offers the best and one of a kind services like the nose spa. The Nose spa is a unique treatment that is to relieve pain from the sinuses and clear up any infection that might occur.

JAB Hauz of Zen also has Spine and throat alignment to relieve tense joints and muscles for a better posture and to speak better.

JAB Hauz of Zen also offers two different acupunctures from the traditional which is the needle acupuncture and the modern way which is the Zen Laser Acupuncture. Both methods are given to relief pain from the body.

Combining both modern and traditional way of healing the body – JAB Hauz of Zen also have their line of medicine that are made with only organic and locally made ingredients.

Check out JAB Hauz of Zen and experience a whole new way of healing today!

JAB Hauz of Zen is located at 3^rd Floor Unit 303 150 Corporate Center, Panay Avenue, Quezon City.

What Matters Most in a Massage Session

Long hard days of work, routine schedules, and stress-filled lives can no doubt push our bodies to our limit and make us yearn for our own relaxation time. One increasing popular industry is the spa and massage centers which can be found now in practically any city. In that case, how will you choose which would be the best place to get a massage and how can you get the most out of it? Both questions hold one answer: communication.

Source:

http://virtuasheville.com/massage/

            Communication matters in a massage session. A committed massage therapist must be able to communicate well with a client and produce a calm atmosphere where clients become comfortable in voicing their needs. It is the key to creating a favorable relationship between the therapist and the client.

            Right from the moment you book an appointment, communication with the client must be established. Most clients time their appointments meticulously – others like having a massage before the start of the day to freshen them up while others prefer having their stress relieved at the end of a long night. Remember, no one knows you body more than you and that is why massage therapists must be able to accommodate clients in their preferred schedule as much as possible or at least, help them find suitable available time for both the client and therapist. In booking appointments, request your preferred massage technique, type, or kind of therapist as well. In that way, the massage centers may be able to find an appropriate massage therapist that can best accommodate your needs.

            However, communication does not only happen one-way in which case, you as a client must also voice out your opinions and needs. One such case is telling your massage therapist of your complete medical history, such as medications you are currently taking, and any past or present accidents and injuries. Massage is more than just rubbing your skin for relaxation. For years, it has been thought to have the ability to restore not just your mind but also that of your body’s health. Massage therapy deals with a lot of health conditions such as back pain, spinal cord injury, high blood pressure, and sleep disorders. It also helps them know where to focus to relieve you of your pain and stress, as well as any allergies to possible massage oils that they may be using.

            During the session, the comfortable atmosphere between the client and therapist must still be intact for the client to feel like he/she can freely give his/her feedback. Don’t be afraid in voicing out concerns whether it be the temperature or lighting of the environment. Other centers would be playing music, if you prefer other kinds of music or if you like having a massage quietly, make sure to tell your therapist. Giving feedbacks regarding the amount of pressure and speed of the hand movements is also very important.

            Don’t be afraid to tell your concerns because as professional massage therapists, their job is to make you feel comfortable as much as possible. Lastly, communication is the best way to express your gratitude to your therapists. It would make their day just hearing a thank you from their clients knowing they have done their job to help you with your pain and stress.