SINE CABOLOAN

Sine Caboloan is a film production company  founded in 2007 by Christopher Gozum, an award-winning diasporic independent filmmaker from the town of Bayambang, province of Pangasinan in the northern Philippines.

The word  Caboloan  refers to the ancient name of the Pangasinan region which used to cover the present-day Pangasinan province and several towns of Tarlac, Zambales and La Union. The root word of Caboloan which is bolo means a special species of  bamboo which used to grow abundantly in the interior plains of the ancient Pangasinan region.

Sine Caboloan is dedicated to producing cutting edge independent digital feature films about the Pangasinan region and its people in the homeland and in diaspora. Sine Caboloan also strongly advocates the use of  the indigenous language in the region – Pangasinan.

Sine Caboloan already produced two award-winning independent digital films during the past two years of its existence. First is the short experimental film Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui tan Kaamong ya Makakailiw ed Sika : Gurgurlis ed Banua  (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who longs for You: Landscape with Figures). The film received the Ishmael Bernal Award for Most Outstanding Young Filipino Filmmaker during the 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival. It has been screened in various festivals and venues in the Philippines, South Korea, and Singapore. It is also scheduled for screenings in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia in the coming months. The second film is the full-length experimental feature Anacbanua  (The Child of the Sun) which received the Digital Lokal Lino Brocka Grand Prize and the Digital Lokal Best Director Award during the recently-concluded 2009 Cinemanila International Film Festival. The film screened during the 16^th Filipino American Cine Festival (2009) in San Francisco and will have its South Korean premiere during the 2010 Jeonju International Film Festival as well as European premieres in the coming months.

Sine Caboloan is currently preparing for its two new full-length feature projects namely Insipan Ya Dalin (The Promised Land) scheduled for 2009-2010 and Impanbilay na Sakey Aripuen (The Life and Times of a Slave) which will run starting in 2009 until its target completion date in 2013.