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Arri has published the Alexa 35 Showreel for 2024. This showreel aims to demonstrate the cinematographic diversity of projects shot on the Arri 35, from blockbusters to indie commercials, and also to show the camera’s stunning imagery and dynamic range. Check it out.

Alexa 35 + Xelmus Anamorphic: Test Shots The Alexa 35 Showreel 2024: From blockbusters to indie films

As stated by Arri: We are proud to present the new Alexa 35 showreel, highlighting the wide variety of productions and looks that have been captured with the camera. Thank you to all the cinematographer for their contributions. Featuring a global mix, the showreel includes not only major blockbusters but also indie films, TV series, commercials, music videos, and art projects. The visual styles and aesthetics are incredibly diverse, crafted by talented directors and DPs using various lenses, lighting setups, production designs, and postproduction techniques, not to mention different features of the Alexa 35, such as Extended Sensitivity modes and Arri Textures.

By Purple Romero

That a grimy toilet and paroxysms brought by physical attacks could convey hope and magic is a testament to the ability of the Filipino film “Pan de Salawal” to subvert the prettification and sometimes excessive sentimentality of movies with fantastical themes. Winner of the Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards at the 2020 Calella Film Festival in Spain, the debut movie of writer-director Anna Francesca ‘Che’ Espiritu need not resort to grandiose effects to evoke the grandness of miracles much sought for and experienced by the common man.

“Pan de Salawal” focuses on the desolate Salvador, or Sal for short, a 68-year-old baker whose main goal in life is to die. Left with a string of failed romantic relationships and a sickness which makes him feel more alone, he attempts every now and then to end everything, with the railtracks and the decrepit old train which traverses his city as his witness.

Rae Red has made a name for herself through her script-writing work in Mikhail Red’s films like “Eerie“, “Neomanila” and “Birdshot“. Since 2016, she has also started directing films, with “The Girl and the Gun” being her second feature and the third overall.

On the occasion of “The Girl and the Gun” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we speak with her on the story of the film, the non-linear narrative, violence in Quezon City, the various issues poor people in the Philippines face, and many other topics.

How did the story for “The Girl and The Gun” come about? It seems very grounded in reality. Is it based on any true incidents?

A lot of the characters from the movie are based on real people. There’s Kian Delos Santos, an Ejk victim back in 2017. The character of Jun played by Elijah Canlas was inspired by him. Lean Alejandro,...

After the huge success of “Die Beautiful”, there was bound to be a sequel, and “Born Beautiful” serves that purpose, despite the fact that it is more of a spin off, as it focuses on the character of Barbs Cordero, who was one of the best friends of Trisha in the first film.

“Born Beautiful” is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival

Barbs works in a funeral parlor, where she makes the faces of the deceased look like famous stars. After a rather surrealistic scene where she meets with the deceased Trisha, troubles with her boyfriend, Greg, who happens to be married, and her best friend dying after being struck by lightning, Barbs decides to leave her trans life behind and become a straight man. To do so, he joins the Way of Light, an organization who is specialized in returning trans women to manhood, through religion. During her effort,...