Film producer Ferdinand 'Ferdy' Lapuz has been given a lifetime achievement award at the recently concluded 2023 Fantasporto International Film Festival (IFF) in Porto, Portugal, where he was also honored with a retrospective of some of the most celebrated films he helped produce. The festival's 43rd edition ran from Feb. 25 to March 5. 'I didn't expect the award. I only knew that I'd be receiving a citation because of the retrospective. I didn't have any hint of it until a few minutes before the program when one of the festival organizers told me, ‘You better have extra space on your luggage because you'll be taking home the last award,'' the Pampanga-based Lapuz told Inquirer Entertainment by phone days after he arrived home.

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