Gay Filipino Film Goes To the Oscars
The Film Academy of the Philippines has selected Bwakaw as the national contender in the foreign-language film category at next year’s Oscars.
The Tagalog-language comedy-melodrama was directed by Jun Robles Lana and stars veteran actor Eddie Garcia as a curmudgeonly old gay man trying to come to terms with age, solitude and the elusive meaning of friendship. Bwakaw is the name of the stray dog who befriends the isolated old man and eventually acts as the bridge between him and those who surround him.
Bwakaw played last week at the Toronto International Film Festival and is scheduled for the New York Film Festival this weekend.
Hopefully it will be more along these lines, rather than these.
