Eddie Garcia and Quezon’s Game won the Gold Remi at the 2019 Worldfest Houston International Film Festival.
Veteran actor Eddie Garcia won the Gold Remi Best Actor for Rainbow’s Sunset. Garcia essayed the role of an old man who decides to be outed as gay to care for his sick lover.
ABS-CBN Film Productions’ Quezon’s Game won two Gold Remis and a Special Jury award. The film tells the story of President Manuel L. Quezon’s brave and heroic efforts to provide shelter fkr Holocaust refugees.
Two independent films from the Philippines also received the Gold Remi.
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Here are the Filipino Remi Winners from the 52nd Annual WorldFest Houston:
- JUDGEMENT
Gold Remi Dramatic – Original
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez, Center Stage Productions, Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines - SCHOOL SERVICE
Gold Remi Foreign
FerdinandLapuz
Philippines - QUEZON’S GAME
Special Jury Award First Feature
Lorena Rosen
Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines - QUEZON’S GAME
Gold Remi Best Art Direction
Matthew Rosen &Maria Rowella Talusig
Makati City , Metro Manila, Philippines - QUEZON’S GAME
Gold Remi Best Director
Matthew Rosen
Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines - RAINBOW’S SUNSET’S EDDIE GARCIA
Gold Remi Best Actor
SEE: Quezon’s Game bags film awards in Canada tilt
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