Even while battling a pandemic, the past weeks had been hectic for the local indies with five new international awards in the bag, Inquirer Entertainment learned.
The latest award was handed to Elijah Canlas at the 2021 Harlem International Film Festival in New York, for his compelling performance as a teenage HIV-positive patient in Jun Robles Lana’s “Kalel, 15.”
This is Elijah’s fourth award for the said coming-of-age drama. He won the same at the 17th Rome Asian Film Festival in Italy, and locally from the organizers of the 43rd Gawad Urian and the 2020 Film Academy of Movie Arts and Science (Famas) Awards (tied with the late Kristofer King for “Verdict”).
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