CITY OF SAN FERNANDO--The Kapampangan independent film "Magkakabaung" is up for possible awards in 14 categories of the 63rd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards (FAMAS).
The film is nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Child Performer (Felixia Crysten Dizon)
Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Music. The films director Jason Laxamana is also nominated for Best Story, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Screenplay.
The films lead stars Allen Dizon and Gladys Reyes are nominated for the Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively. It could be remembered that film bagged the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Awards in the 38th Gawad Urian Awards.
It could be remembered that "Magkakabaung" bagged awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film with its lead actor Allen Dizon also winning Best Actor and sharing the honor stage with actresses Nora Aunor and Angelica Panganiban in the recent 13th Gawad Tanglaw. Dizon also won his first international Best Actor Award at the Ninth Harlem International Film Festival in New York on September 14 for his role in the film.
The film also won for its director Jason Laxamana the Hanoi Film Festival award. The film was also declared as this year's best film in the Third Silk Road Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland.
"Magkakabaung," was produced by film writer and director Jason Paul Laxamana entirely in the Kapampangan language, shot, and tells the story of a casket factory worker, played by actor Allen Dizon, who brought up his eight-year-old daughter alone after his wife left him, and then accidentally caused the death of the girl by administering the wrong medicine.
The 63rd FAMAS Awards Night will be on September 20 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila.