Actor Marvin Agustin was recently selected as the first Filipino ever to serve as a jury member of the prestigious Brussels International Independent Film Festival.
Agustin was personally invited by Brussels IIFF Director Robert Malengrau when they met last July during the Cinemalaya 2010 in Manila. The IIFF Director got interested in Agustin’s filmography after watching Sigwa and Kutob, which won a Best Actor award for Agustin.
The actor said he is set to give a speech at the event. In addition, the Philippine National Anthem video produced by GMA-7 will be also played before the start of Filipino movies.
About a hundred films from fifty countries will be screened in this year’s filmfest. Director Mark Meily’s Donor, starring Baron Geisler and Meryll Soriano, will be among the foreign entries in the competition. Meanwhile, the film Sigwa of Director Joel Lamangan (starring Dawn Zulueta, Zsa Zsa Padilla, and Marvin Agustin) will be part of the exhibition films.
The 37th Brussels International Independent Film Festival will be held on November 2-7, 2010 in Belgium.