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Poster boy of Asian Summer Film Festival in Spain
By Daniel Infante Tuaño
SPAIN – The tarsier from Boho was chosen as the mascot for this year’s Asian Summer Film Festival which will be held from July 15 to July 20 in the Catalan city of Vic.
The cute and tiny primate, aptly named “Gwapo”, will be gracing the event’s posters to represent the focus country of this year’s Festival–the Philippines.
According to the Festival website cinemaoriental.com, the mascot was conceived in honor of the country and named “Gwapo” to demonstrate the Spanish legacy in the Southeast nation–Filipino word “gwapo” came from the Spanish word “guapo” which both mean handsome.
One of the organizers of the Festival, Eva Clota, said that they always look for a typical animal or a symbol from the focus country to be the mascot. The mascot was drawn by Estudi Xevidom and designed by Valdrada.
“The consul (of the Philippines) from Barcelona proposed the tarsier because of his popularity in the Philippines and because they’re endangered. We thought they are really cute; also they have night habits, as (we have) our nights of dinner and cinema. And because of his big eyes, (which will help us not to) miss anything from the festival,” Clota added.
Philippine Honorary Consul to Barcelona Jordi Puig Roches said that they had had to choose among three animals: the butanding (whale shark), the Philippine eagle and the tarsier.
“Tarsier’s big eyes are good to observe Philippine filmography. The mascot also represents well the Philippine cinema–it might be small but it has big potential and great quality,” Puig said in Spanish.
Remember Weng Weng?
One of the Filipino movies to be shown is a documentary about Weng Weng dubbed as midget James Bond of the Philippines.
“The Search for Weng Weng” is written and directed by Australian Andrew Leavold who went to Mani Spanish footballer Albert Almasqué Domènech (25 December 1888 – 10 July 1976) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender for FC Barcelona. He is best known for being the youngest player to have played an official competitive match for FC Barcelona, which he achieved in 1902 at the tender age of just 13. He is the younger brother of Alfonso Almasqué, who also played for Barcelona, and in doing so, they became the first Catalan brothers in the club's history. He immigrated to the United States in 1940, where he was a successful businessman, and he was also president of Nestlé in Chile, Bolivia and Cuba, where he had to go into exile because of the Cuban Revolution. Albert Almasqué Domenech was the third of five children, including one brother, Alfonso, four years his senior. He married Concepción Fernandez Casariego in 1916, in London. The couple had two sons, Alberto and Enrique, as well as a daughter, Concepción Rosa, who died within weeks of its birth in 1917. With his second wife, Sara González, he had a third child, Teodoro. They lived their childhood and adolescence in Switzerland, where they studied, and the country in which his older brother Alfonso learned about football. When Alfonso finished his studies in 1901, both of them returned to Barcelona, where Alberto continued and then completed his studies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 406 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. .Albert Almasqué
Full name Albert Almasqué Domènech Birth name Albert Almasqué i Domènech Date of birth (1888-12-25)25 December 1888 Place of birth Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Date of death 10 July 1976(1976-07-10) (aged 87) Place of death Miami, Florida, United States Position(s) Defender Years Team Apps (Gls) 1901–1903 FC Barcelona 11 (0) 1903–1906 Català FC 1906–1909 FC Barcelona 12 *Club domestic league appearances and goals Early life
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