Khavn Receives 20K Grant
Khavn de la Cruz is one of four directors receiving the ‘20K grant’ for his project MONDOMANILA: HOW I FIXED MY HAIR AFTER A RATHER LONG JOURNEY.
The ‘20K grant’ is the name of a new funding opportunity offered by the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Its intention is to support “low budget digital video productions from developing countries”. The three other projects selected are: AT THE END OF THE DAYBREAK by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia), IN WHAT CITY DOES IT LIVE? by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia), and WEED by Wang Liren (China).
After a first visit in the summer of 2005, Khvan returned to Slovenia last May to attend the third Isola Cinema festival. This time he came in the company of his filmmaking compatriots Lav Diaz and Raya Martin. Of the latter he accompanied live on piano A Short Film about the Indio Nacional.
