The highest ranking official of the University of the Philippines (UP) System calls on the entire UP community to support the 2nd Quisumbing-Escandor Film Festival for Health (QEFF). UP President Dr. Emerlinda Roman, on her memo dated March 1, 2009, encourages the members and constituents of the UP System to join the second staging of the QEFF. 

UNVEILING QEFF 2. (L to R) Kalvina Adala ΜΣΦ 2012, Algene Agustin ΜΣΦ 2012, UP President Dr. Emerlinda Roman, Bryan Lim ΜΣΦ 2010, Dr. Rafael Bundoc ΜΣΦ 1986, Daniel Dellosa ΜΣΦ 2013, and Argie Dorado ΜΣΦ 2013

Dr. Emerlinda Roman was also instrumental to the success of the first QEFF as she was the Guest of Honor of  the awards night held in February 2008. Brod Bryan Lim ΜΣΦ 2010 then offered the first QEFF as the fraternity's gift to President Roman and to the entire UP System which at that time was launching its celebrations for its Centennial.

With the support of President Roman, the QEFF 2 hopes to attract more film makers hailing from the country's premiere state university. The UP is renowned internationally as a training ground, as well as a home to exceptional talents and personalities in the field of the arts, particularly for film. QEFF 2, that goes by the theme Sa Ngalan ng Ama, ng Anak, at ng Ina... to underscore the issues plaguing maternal and child health in the Philippines, employs separate AMATEUR and PROFESSIONAL categories to participants. This development hopes to draw a diverse and rich pool of UP (and non-UP) based film makers that can turn the fim tilt as heuristic and moving as its theme.

Read on the UP links of President Roman's message to the UP System:

UP Newsletter: http://www.up.edu.ph/upnewsletter.php?issue=51&i=852

Film festival for health honors UP doctors

President Emerlinda R. Roman has called on the UP community to join the 2nd Quisumbing-Escandor Film Festival for Health (QEFF) of UP Manila, which will culminate in February 2010.

The contest is open to amateur film-makers of documentaries, short narratives, and experimental films following the theme of the QEFF’s second biennial, “Sa ngalan ng ama, ng anak, at ng ina….” The QEFF aims to highlight maternal and child health issues in our country, such as high mortality, poor hospital facilities, few health providers, the cost of medicine, the Reproductive Health Bill, and many others. President Roman invited filmmakers to depict these issues and the interplay between political, socio-economic, cultural, and other factors. “Capture them in film and let our people and our leaders awaken to some realities,” she said.

Interested parties may log on to www.qe-filmfestival.com and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to view the interesting films produced last year for the 1st QEFF. Queries may also be directed to the overall chairperson of the festival Bryan Albert T. Lim at 09054289036, 09174917179, 09178234750, 09154584121, or call the office landline at (02) 5678900.

The festival is a tribute to Dr. Honorato L. Quisumbing and Dr. Juan B. Escandor of the UP College of Medicine whose lives exemplified the University of the Philippines’ and the medical profession’s ideal of service. Both doctors were killed on duty.

UP Manila: http://www.upm.edu.ph/updates.php#news4

2nd Quisumbing-Escandor Film Festival for Health (QEFF) for 2010

The contest is open to documentaries, short narratives, and experimental films by amateur film-makers.

The festival is a tribute to Drs. Honorato L. Quisumbing and Juan B. Escandor of the UP College of Medicine whose lives exemplified UP’s and the medical profession’s ideal of service. Both were killed while on duty—Dr. Quisumbing, while serving at the Philippine General Hospital during World War II.; Dr. Escandor, while serving as a barrio doctor during martial law (he was accused of being a rebel sympathizer).

Theme: “Sa ngalan ng ama, ng anak, at ng ina…” It aims to put into the limelight maternal and child health issues in the country—high mortality, poor hospital facilities, few health providers, the cost of medicine, the Reproductive Health Bill, and many others. Depict these issues as they interplay with political, socio-economic, cultural, and other factors, capture them in film, and let our people and our leaders awaken to some realities.

For more information regarding the festival and the prizes: www.qe-filmfestival.com and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

OR, you may contact the following: Bryan Albert T. Lim (09054289036) [Overall Chairperson] and his colleagues Bryan (09174917179), Jowel (09178234750), Kalvin (09154584121), AND their landline (02) 567-8900. 

For more information about the 2nd Quisumbing Escandor Film Festival for Health, visit http://www.qe-filmfestival.com/