Two Filipino veteran actors brought honors to the country by taking home the Best Actor and Best Actress award at the 7th Asian Film Awards (AFA) held in Hongkong.
Nora Aunor won the Best Actress for her film with another international award-winning director Brillante Mendoza “Thy Womb,” while Eddie Garcia got the Best Actor Trophy and the People’s Choice Favorite Actor award for the film “Bwakaw” directed by Jun Lana.
Nora, the Philippines’ ‘superstar’ portrayed a role of a Badjao midwife who went to extremes to please his husband in the film, where she had previously bagged the best actress award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards held in Brisbane, Australia in November last year.
Garcia’s role in “Bwakaw” is a homosexual trying to cope with his twilight years with a dog for a companion, that also got him recognized as the best actor in the Asia Pacific Film Festival in Macau last December.
Fellow Filipino actress had achieved recognition from AFA in 2012. Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino won best supporting actress for Loy Arcenas “Nino”, and Eugene Domingo won people’s choice favorite actress for Marlon Rivera’s “Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank.”
