SINE CABOLOAN

Sine Caboloan is an independent film company  founded in 2007 by Christopher Gozum, a filmmaker from Bayambang, Pangasinan in the northern region of the Philippines.

The word  Caboloan  refers to the ancient name of Pangasinan  which used to cover the present-day Pangasinan province and several towns of Tarlac, Zambales and La Union provinces. The root word of Caboloan which is bolo means a special species of  bamboo which used to grow abundantly in the interior plains of the ancient Pangasinan region.

Sine Caboloan was founded with the objective of creating short  films, feature length films, and experimental films and documentaries that articulate the distinct culture of the region and advocates the use of  the indigenous language of its people - Pangasinan. 

In 2008, Sine Caboloan produced two digital films that fulfill its advocacy of articulating the culture and promoting the indigenous language of the region. The first project is the short experimental film Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui tan Kaamong ya Makakailiw ed Sika : Gurgurlis ed Banua  (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who longs for You: Landscape with Figures)  based from a Pangasinan-language translation of Filipino-American writer and activist Carlos  Bulosan’s poem Landscape with Figures (1942). The second project is the full-length feature film Anacbanua  (The Child of the Sun) based on  contemporary Pangasinan-language poems (anlong).