Iza Calzado took home the Yakushi Pearl Award for her acting role in \u2018Bliss\u2019 at the recent Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) held on March 11. This is the award given to the most brilliant performer among all the cast members of the competing films.<\/p>\n
In her acceptance speech, Calzado thanked Bliss <\/em>director, Jerrold Tarrog, the film crew, and the other people who chose and supported her and the film. \u201cI\u00a0 share this award with all the other brilliant performers who are part of the other films,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s jury members include Malaysian film director Ho Yuhang, Filipina director Monster Jimenez, and Japanese actress Nakanishi Miho.<\/p>\n Directed by Jerrold Tarrog, Bliss <\/em>narrates the story of 30-year old Jane Ciego who started out in showbiz at a young age. She decides to produce her own film to gain respect in the industry, but all of her plans crash down on her when she was involved in an accident, crippling her. She begins to lose her sanity after encountering people who made her life a nightmare. The film also stars Ian Veneracio, TJ Trinidad, and Michael De Mesa.<\/p>\n Aside from Jarrog\u2019s film, two other Filipino films competed in the festival: Rory Quintos\u2019 Kita Kita <\/em>and Borgy Torres\u2019 Tisay. <\/em><\/p>\n The Osaka Film Festival, which is now on its 12th<\/sup> year, aims to provide opportunities for people to see excellent Asian films, and to support filmmaking in Osaka and in the rest of the Asian countries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sources: ABS-CBN News<\/a>, Manila Bulletin<\/a>, OAFF<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the award given to the most brilliant performer among all the cast members of the competing films. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[983,2132,2795,444,2793,109,2794],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-983","tag-arts","tag-bliss","tag-film","tag-iza-calzado","tag-japan","tag-osaka-asian-film-festival"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/iza-calzado.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64887,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/64887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}