QUEZON CITY (PIA) - The Culture Center of the Philippines (CCP) Cine Icons will be screening ‘Bagong Buwan’ and ‘Anak’ on Monday, April 15, at the Pier Giorgio Frassati Auditorium, University of Santo Tomas (UST), Manila.

The screening of the two cinema gems, (‘Bagong Buwan’ at 9 am and ‘Anak’ at 1 pm) is in collaboration with the UST-SHS Student Council.

Launched in 2023, CCP Cine Icons is a special’’ program of the CCP Film, Broadcast, and New Media Division (CCP FBNMD) that popularizes the works of National Artists and Gawad CCP Para sa Sining awardees.

National Artist Ricky Lee wrote the screenplay for ‘Anak’ and co-wrote the screenplay for ‘Bagong Buwan’ with the film’s director and fellow National Artist, Ms. Marilou Diaz Abaya.

‘Bagong Buwan’ is about a Muslim doctor (Cesar Montano) who was forced to deal with the impact of war in his hometown while ‘Anak’ is about an overseas Filipino contract worker (Vilma Santos-Recto) who finds herself resented by her family upon her return to the country.

‘Bagong Buwan’ premiered in 2001 as an official entry to the 27th Metro Manila Film Festival and won seven awards including Best Actor to Montano, Best Child Performer to actor Jiro Manio, and Best Original Theme Song to Joey Ayala's “Walang Hanggang Paalam’.

‘Anak’ on the other hand, won Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Amy Austria at the 2001 Film Academy of the Philippines.

Santos-Recto won Best Actress of the Year at the 2001 Star Awards for Movies.

After the screenings, actors from ‘Anak’ (to be led by Santos-Recto, Claudine Barretto, and Baron Geisler) will be present for the Talk-Back Session.

Last February 22, CCP and the UST Central Student Council screened Kip Oebanda’s Cinemalaya award-winning film ‘Liway’ in commemoration of the EDSA People Power Revolution, under the CCP Lakbay Sine program. (LP)