10 December 2021
Dear Esteemed Friends,
Boy Villasanta’s
SEKSINEMA (Gender Images in Philippine Sex Cinema Enfolding Pandemia) is off
the press and we are inviting you to its virtual launching on Wednesday, 15 December
2021, at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon- Philippine time via Zoom.
We would be honored to have you with
us as we celebrate the publication of Villasanta’s extensive study with guests:
Award-winning director BRILLANTE MENDOZA (Best Director 62nd Cannes
Film Festival for “Kinatay” and this year’s Kim Jiseok Award, 26th
Busan International Film Festival for “GenSan Punch”) [photo credit: Facebook account of Brillante Mendoza] 
beauty queen and Golden Screen Best Supporting Actress Awardee MARIA ISABEL LOPEZ (photo credit: Facebook account of Maria Isabel Lopez) and a panel of
speakers who will talk about sex cinema in Philippine movies.
SEKSINEMA (Gender Images in
Philippine Sex Cinema Enfolding Pandemia) is Boy Villasanta’s sixth book. His
previous works include “Tio Ticong Pelikula at Pulitika Vicente Salumbides,”
c.2002 and “Expose (Movie Reporting in the Philippines),” c.2007, both by UST
Publishing House; “75 Writers, 75 Stories” published by the Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes Office and “SEKSINEMA,” a historical survey in book form on the
history of sex in Philippine Cinema published by The Word Publishing in 2009;
and “The Man of Destiny Octavio S. Maloles II,” a biography of social
entrepreneur Rico Maloles in 2018.
Boy Villasanta is a documentary
filmmaker in the Philippines and an awarded entertainment journalist with
almost five decades professional experience in movie journalism. He has
participated in film festivals such as the 2010 Pandayang Lino Brocka Film and New Media Festival;
1st ASEAN Documentary Film Festival in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2020 where he won
consolation prize for “Dumagat,” a foray into indigenous peoples’ employ of
theater in fighting for their ancestral domains; 2012 and 2013 Gwangju
International Film Festival in South Korea; 2013 Filipino Arts and Cinema
International (FACINE) in San Francisco, USA etc. He was a film student at the
2011 Fantastic Film School (FFS) of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film
Festival (BiFan) in Bucheon City, South Korea. He has been writing for the Made
in Asia booklet of BiFan since 2017. At the moment, he is a multimedia
practitioner. He writes for newspapers such as OpinYon, Diyaryo Pinoy, Market
Monitor; online sites like FilCASPro and Opinyon. He hosts the entertainment
portion of “Market Monitor Online” news program aired every Saturday at 9 am
(Philippine time) in Asian Television Content (ATC) Channel 31 online TV and Market
Monitor Facebook Live.
Zoom link will be posted soon. See you!
Yours truly,
Gem Suguitan
