CANNES -- Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen and Jose "Pete" Lacaba will be given
special awards at the upcoming Osian's-Cinefan Festival of Asian and
Arab Cinema.
The New Delhi-based fest, now in its 10th frame, runs July 10-20, with a teaser event in Mumbai June 13-14.
Sen
will receive a lifetime achievement award in recognition of a career
that has spanned feature films, shorts and documentaries of differing
content and cine-aesthetics.
Lacaba, who receives the Aruna
Vasudev Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Cinema, is a
bilingual poet, journalist, editor, translator, and screenwriter, with
books that include "The Films of ASEAN" and screenplay credits that
include "Jaguar," "Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim," "Orapronobis," "Sister
Stella L.," "Eskapo," "Segurista" and "Rizal sa dapitan."
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