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CinemAyala?: Indie filmfest goes commercial

Cinemalaya goes UP was then a partnership between Cinemalaya, UP Cineastes’ Studio, and the UP Film Institute (UPFI). It has catered to the taste of those who wanted an alternative from the mainstream—students, professionals and movie enthusiasts alike.
Last year, a proposition to cancel the screening in UP did not push through due to the clamor of the festival’s patrons. This year, however, UP will no longer be included in its list of festival venues.
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Uphold press freedom – Pete Lacaba

Poet, screenplay writer and journalist Jose “Pete” Lacaba told media students to continue upholding press freedom by reporting the truth in his Gawad Plaridel lecture Wednesday.

“Ang pagsasabi ng totoo, masakit man sa tenga ng ilan, ay magbibigay ng matibay na pundasyon sa malaya at maunlad na bansang gusto nating itatag (Truth-telling, although it hurts the ears of others, will provide the foundation of the free and developed nation we are building),” said Lacaba, the 2013 Gawad Plaridel recipient.

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COLUMN: Beyond filling print space

A campus journalist knows that words must traverse paper and permeate social consciousness.

The ability of the campus paper to shape public opinion is the reason why it has always been facing threats to its freedom, taken under siege by those in positions of power – by institutions desperately trying to conceal the truth from the very first time that student-journalists learned to fill the pages with its mighty ink.

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Maroons remain winless, bow to Tigers

The University of the Philippines rallied in the first three quarters and kept the game close before collapsing at endgame and bowed to the University of Santo Tomas, 79-69, in their first round meeting of UAAP Season 76 Basketball Tournament Wednesday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
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EDITORIAL: A game of hide-and-seek

President Aquino engaged Filipinos to a nearly two-hour game of hide-and-seek in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday – but no one was in the mood to play.
It is unclear who the taya is – was it PNoy, who threatened to comb every corner in pursuit of the most wanted wrongdoers; or was it the people, who religiously listened to his 18-page droning in search of issues to no avail?
This childish game had enough players, but of who were entertained, we do not know.
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Writing in the middle of a storm

One startling and remarkable thing to come out of those three months of violence was a series of on-the-spot reports, coming from a young but brave journalist who was himself a part of the movement. In fact, he had been present that first long night, and was even injured on the chest by loose shrapnel after troopers fired their guns at the cement.
This young, uncompromising and courageous journalist was Jose Maria Flores Lacaba, Jr.
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