Kano: An American and His Harem

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Website

http://www.arkeofilms.com/kano

Topics

Human Development: Children, Poverty
Human Rights: Civil Rights, Gender, Religion, Sexuality
Politics: Codes of Conduct, Ethics & Value Systems, Justice and Crime

Project Geography

International: Asia

Identity Niches

Asian, Caucasian, Children, Islamic, Women, Youth/Teen

Budget

Raised to date: $64,810.00
Estimate to complete: $44,438.50
Total Estimated Budget: $109,248.50
The budget numbers above are accurate as of

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Distribution

Media Type

Video

Project End Use

Theatrical

Key Personnel

Monster Jimenez
Director

Monster is the Lead Creative of Arkeofilms. She is an award-winning writer and filmmaker who has worked in film, television, print and digital media. In 2005, she co-wrote and produced Arkeofilms’ “Big Time” winning honors and awards including eight nominations at the29th Gawad Urian. She was awarded grants by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the Goteborg Film Fund of Sweden and the Asian Cinema Fund for her full-length documentary “Kano”. She is also starting her next documentary funded by the Goethe Institute about the erroneous textbooks used in the Philippine public schools.

Mario Cornejo
Producer, Co-Editor
Mario is currently working as a director for movies, television and advertising. In 2005 he wrote and directed his first feature, “Big Time” for Arkeofilms, which has gone on to show in several film festivals abroad and was nominated for a number of awards. “Big Time” is considered to be one of the best comedies that have come out in a long time. Since then, Cornejo has gone on to direct another comedy, this time for mainstream studio entitled “First Day High.”  His last independent project was a short feature, “Stray Hearts,” that has been selected for exhibition at the 2009 Rotterdam Film Fest. This is Mario’s third major collaboration with Monster Jimenez.

Margie Templo
Producer

Co-founder, resident producer and director of Arkeofilms, Margie has had over a decade of experience in production for film, television and digital video.  As a producer, she has been selected to participate in various programs of top international film festivals including the RotterdamLab for emerging producers in the Netherlands, the Berlinale Talent Project Market and Le Pavilion Les Cinemas Du Sud of the Cannes Film Festival. She just wrapped production as the Line Producer for a Hollywood independent, with Oscar award-winning writer and filmmaker John Sayles. She is currently developing Arkeofilms’ upcoming full-length feature projects for international co-production.

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

Original Intention “Kano” started as an investigative article that was commissioned to me. I was set out to write the story about this “crazy American” who raped children. As it turns out, the story was much bigger than a rape story; and the deeper I got the more I realized that I wanted to dig deeper. This is how I started the documentary--I had no advocacy or agenda. I just had the curiosity of a journalist who got hooked. But reaching out cannot be helped. Curiosity led to engagement of the people involved in this web of issues.
The Outreach Partners This story would not have been possible without the help and cooperation of the Commission on Human Rights and Gabriela (one of the country’s leading women’s groups). I plan to reach out to them again when I want to show this to the people of Negros Occidental. As a grantee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), we plan to promote this movie using the existing outreach program of this agency. NCCA’s mandate to promote arts around the nation complements my own objective to develop a local audience for documentaries.

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