Jun Lana wins Best Foreign Film Director at Madrid for "Mga Kuwentong Barbero"

"Barber's Tales" also known as "Mga Kuwentong Barbero" has won Jun Lana the Best Director award at the 3rd Madrid International Film Festival. The film was also nominated in the Best Foreign Feature Film Award which was won by Keun-Hyun Cho's "Late Spring". Jun Robles Lana is also the director of the critically-acclaimed "Bwakaw". Eugene Domingo was also nominated as Best Actress in a Foreign Film Award, but also lost to "Late Spring's" Seo-Hyung Kim. "Mga Kuwentong Barbero" is a period film wherein Eugene Domingo plays a widower who takes over her late husband's barbershop at the onset of the Martial Law Period. It's about a widow imprisoned by gender expectations in the 1970s. [hit the jump to continue]

In his speech, Direk Jun said that he shares this award with his husband Perci Intalan, producer Ferdy Lapuz, and lead actress Eugene Domingo.
"Some of you have seen the film would agree with me that Eugene Domingo, the actress, is the heart and soul of the film. Eugene, this is also for you,"

"Mga Kuwentong Barbero" has already won several prestigious awards. It landed 3rd place in the Audience Award at the Udine Far East Film Festival held last May in Italy. It won the Best HAF Project Award, Technicolor Award, ARRI Award, and Catapoolt Award at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF). And its lead actress Eugene Domingo earned the Best Actress plum at the 26th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2013.

Lana is currently on in pre-production stage for his next movie "Ama Namin (Our Father)". Its story follows the plight of a boy who enters the seminary to be with the only family he has left: his father, who is a priest. The film is said to be the third in his trilogy set in rural Philippines, which begins with "Bwakaw" then with "Mga Kuwentong Barbero".

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