{"id":53763,"date":"2020-03-01T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=53763"},"modified":"2020-03-02T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:39:29","slug":"cinematic-ripples-of-indie-film-john-denver-trending-reaches-europe-wins-3-major-awards-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/03\/01\/cinematic-ripples-of-indie-film-john-denver-trending-reaches-europe-wins-3-major-awards-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematic Ripples of Indie Film John Denver Trending Reach Europe, Wins 3 Major Awards in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Being hailed as 2019 Cinemalaya Film Festival&#8217;s\u00a0best full-length film was definitely just the start for <strong>John Denver Trending<\/strong>&#8216;s voyage on the film acclamation scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Its winning stint\u00a0at the\u00a0<strong>26th Festival International des Cinemas d&#8217;Asie de Vesoul\u00a0<\/strong>in France was an attestation to this domination, where\u00a0it took home three out of the nine major awards namely\u00a0<strong>Audience Award, Special Jury Award,<\/strong> and <strong>Critic Award.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53781\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Poster.jpg 534w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Poster-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">John Denver Trending is Antique-born director<strong> Arden Rod Condez<\/strong>&#8216;s debut film, whose plot epicenter lies in the dark\u00a0abyss of being the talk of the online town that is social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This particularly follows the story of how a 14-year old student named\u00a0John Denver deals with an overturned life after being caught\u00a0in the wicked and paralyzing virtual hands of people on the internet due to his viral assault video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53807\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/b26a64ee3946d24bfdda29dfdec6cd86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/b26a64ee3946d24bfdda29dfdec6cd86.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/b26a64ee3946d24bfdda29dfdec6cd86-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/b26a64ee3946d24bfdda29dfdec6cd86-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to Arden, upon his personal\u00a0accounts of the aftereffects of being famous online in\u00a0the lives of Filipino millennials, he was awashed by the bugging question,\u00a0<em>how does someone come of age in the time of social media?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">John Denver Trending was graced by mostly non-professional actors, who spoke Antique&#8217;s very own language Kinaray-a.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/the-kingmaker-details-the-marcoses-ascend-to-power-once-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kingmaker Details the Marcoses\u2019 Ascend to Power Once Again<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A total of nine Asian films participated at the 26th Festival International des Cinemas d&#8217;Asie de Vesoul or Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, which has been running since 1995\u2014untiringly shining a light on Asian films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Among these, John Denver Trending duly received the following awards:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u2022 Audience Award <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0voted by the Vesoul community<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Special Jury Award\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; voted by a\u00a0Tibetan director, a Busan International Film Festival director, a Paris-based producer, a Filipino producer, and a film historian<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>Critic Award\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0voted by Paris-based English film critic, a Chinese journalist, and a Paris-based Chinese critic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53795\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Award.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Award-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Award-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Apart from these awards (among its many more others), John Denver Trending has also been lauded as the Best Project at the 2018 Hanoi International Film Festival Project Market in Vietnam, and its original script\u00a0won second place at the Screenplay Category of the 68th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To date, John Denver Trending has no fixed screening apart from the select ones in different parts of the country. But you may keep an eye out on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnDenverTrending\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> to know where else the acclaimed film\u00a0will be screened.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Denver Trending Full Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7OU2yn2huk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: John Denver Trending&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnDenverTrending\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Images courtesy of Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemalaya.org\/john-denver-trending\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being hailed as 2019 Cinemalaya Film Festival&#8217;s best full-length film was definitely just the start for John Denver Trending&#8217;s voyage on the film acclamation scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12766,12763,12764,12765],"class_list":["post-53763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-arden-rod-condez","tag-john-denver-trending","tag-john-denver-trending-awards","tag-vesoul-international-film-festival-of-asian-cinema"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/John-Denver-Trending-Poster-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763","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=53763"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53831,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions\/53831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}