TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Student Films Based on Cecilia Brainard's story Woman With Horns

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Student Films Based on Cecilia Brainard's story Woman With Horns

For your enjoyment, here are several student films based on my short story, "Woman With Horns". Here's a brief summary of the short story, courtesy of Wikipedia:

The story is set in 1903 a year after the tumultuous Philippine-American War. America was busy sending American administrators to their newly acquired colony in the Pacific. One of those who went to the "Islands" and who ended up in Ubec was a New York doctor and widower, Gerald McAllister. As the Public Health Director of Ubec, he carries on with his duties of establishing a vaccination program to stop a cholera epidemic. His initial meeting of the beautiful and sensual widow, Agustina Macaraig, disturbs and irritates the doctor. It is his assistant, Dr. Jaime Laurel, who reminds him that life is more than work: "Friend, you don't know how to enjoy life. Look at the sun turning red, getting ready to set spectacularly. It is a wonderful afternoon, you walk with a friend, you talk about beautiful women, about life..."^[2]

It is Agustina Macaraig who eventually teaches Gerald McAllister to love and live once more.

SOME LINKS TO STUDENT FILMS FOLLOW:

2014 University of Santo Tomas Student Film Production of Cecilia Brainards' Woman With Horns, directed by Bagaslao and Bocobo.

2011 Student Film of Cecilia Brainard's Woman With Horns

2014 Student Film adaptation of Woman with Horns (UST Group 3 2-6, Philippine Literature)

2014 Student Film adaptation of Woman with Horns (uploaded by Gio Castillo)

2011 Student Film of Woman with Horns (Lit 102 project) (gynetheagustine)

"Woman With Horns" Bloopers re Mendoza Production (Bagaslao and Bocobo)

Read also:

Links relating to "Woman With Horns":

Wikipedia's page on "Woman With Horns"
Enotes on "Woman With Horns"
Oscar V. Campomanes' Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Scenographer
Leonard Casper's Possibilities of Humaneness in an Age of Slaughter (critique of Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept)
Student Films based on Cecilia Brainard's Story Flip Gothic
World War II and the novel When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

There are more student film adaptations of my story in YouTube - search "Woman With Horns"

Tags: Philippines, Philippine, Filipino, literature, story, Ubec, Woman With Horns, film, students, Cebu #philippines

This is all for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.