In QCinema 2019, emerging Pinoy filmmakers bring to front persistent socio-economic issues like endo and mining

QCinema will be featuring a wide array of captivating stories for the seventh edition of its film festival from October 13 to October 22.

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While the annual event brings in award-winning international titles for the Filipino audience to experience, emerging Filipino filmmakers get a fair share of the spotlight, thanks to production grants given.

For the festival's short film category, QCinema will feature six brief but hard-hitting works from Filipino filmmakers.

Sonny Calvento's "Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss" tells the story of a sales girl who discovers the "ultimate secret" to regularization, while Joan Mariana's "Here, Here" tackles the life of a family after a mining incident.

"Judy Free" by Jean Cheryl Tagyamon, "Tokwifi" by Carla Pulido Ocampo, "SPID" by Alejo Barbaza and Mervine Aquino, and "Isang Daa't Isang Mariposa" by Norvin de los Santos will also be featured.

The festival will be showing new Filipino-made documentaries including Grace Pimentel Simbulan's A is for Agustin, which revolves around the tribesman who decides to enroll in Grade 1 after his boss cheats him out of his wages.

The DocQC lineup will also feature For My Alien Friend by Jet Leyco and Spring by the Sea by Aleia Garcia.

Meanwhile, three Filipino titles made it to the lineup for Asian Next Wave, which is QCinema's main competition: Kaaway sa Sulod by Arnel Barbarona; Babae at Baril by Rae Red and The Cleaners by Glenn Barit.

QCinema will run from October 13 to October 22, with screenings at the Gateway mall, Trinoma, Robinsons Galleria, UPFI Cine Adarna, Cinema 76 Anonas, and Cinema Centenario. — LA, GMA News