July 2024 It’s hard to believe that it’s almost the middle of July 2024. It seems like yesterday that I was getting ready for the Cordillera International Film Festival 2023 in Reno, NV. We were excited to receive a finalist award for Payback in Manila. Then in December, I took a trip down to Sherman […]
Lunaventure 2022 Update
2022 was a stellar year for Lunavnenture and our writing team. Gaining 5 best screenplay awardsworldwide. Plus a Best Music Video Award for “ Faithless” in Singapore. “Cebu”, “Payback in Manila”,and “Three of a kind”, all receiving awards and finalist status. In November we were honored with best screenplay at AFIN (All-Inclusive International Film Network) […]
The author of CEBU, Peter Reme Bacho will be giving a talk in Seattle
Peter Bacho. The author of CEBU will be talking about his work and reflections in Seattle next month. Seattle peeps check it out. According to census data, the greater Seattle area is home to the fifth-largest Filipino American population in the U.S — the majority of which arrived in the area after 1965. From the […]
Chaiyapruk Abandoned Children’s EN Center
Our team member Daniel Herron sponsors this children’s center in Bangkok, Thailand. He and a team in Thailand created this video. Lunaventure is dedicated to helping others around the world […]
Virginia Travers and Mel Hyde won BEST television screenplay
Virginia Travers and Mel Hyde . Won BEST television screenplay at the FOUR CORNERS FILM FESTIVAL in New Mexico 9/18/2020. Best Screenplay for Vortex Pax […]
Peter Bacho’s award winning novel Cebu may be made into a film
Peter Reme Bacho is a Filipino American author who serves on the faculty of The Evergreen State College–Tacoma campus. There are currently plans for his novel Cebu, which won the American Book Award in 1992, to be turned into a feature film. I caught up with Bacho to learn about his inspiration for the novel and what Cebu’s […]
THE ARTS / Marin film group members pitch themselves / Club gives face time to amateurs
Stan Sinberg, Special to the Chronicle-Published 4:00 am, Friday September 19, 2003Please Note: This group has been put on hiatus temporarily On the last Monday of each month, about a dozen aspiring filmmakers gather at the Aroma Cafe next door to the Rafael Film Center Theater in San Rafael, trying to jumpstart their movie careers. […]
Toiling for an Oscar … or Not
The Oscars have come and gone, but for the people who toil in the shadows of that annual pinnacle of recognition, there is work to be done. While some target that stellar stage as a career destination, others find satisfaction in their work and in the hope of at least reaching the launch pad. Their […]
Support the transition of East Timor
Although our screenplay is fictional, the back story, setting, time, and place are unmistakably the very real struggle for an independent East Timor. Learn more about the struggle of Timor Leste (East Timor) and how you can help support their transition from post-conflict to sustainable development. Go to http://www.postconflictdev.org/ […]
Lunaventure 2019 News
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