Two Filipino Films Win Awards in Brazil and Spain

Jona Ballaran with her best costume design award at the Madrid International Film Festival (Source: Inquirer.net)

Two Filipino films bagged trophies in festivals held in Brazil and Spain. Carlo Francisco Manatad’s “Fatima Marie Torres and the Invasion of the Space Shuttle Pinas 25” won two awards at the recently concluded Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Luis, July 18 in Brazil. Jona Ballaran clinched the best costume design trophy for Atom Magadia’s period love story, “Dagsin (Gravity),” at the Madrid International Film Festival held on July 15 in Spain, reports Inquirer.net.