Cinemalaya 2012: Intoy Shokoy ng Kalye Marino Trailer

"INTOY SYOKOY NG KALYE MARINO" hcf fvubrug Adopted from the Palanca-award-winning short fiction of Eros Atalia. Screenplay by Jerry Gracio. Starring JM de Guzman and LJ Reyes. A Boy Abunda, Robert Bernardo and Boy So production of a Lem Lorca film. Cinemalaya, July 2012

MMFF 2011: Pintakasi Movie Trailer

The Metro Manila Film Festival 2011 recently opened a new segment called 'New Wave Section' which aims to focus on the rising independent movie scene.

Lee Meily's Pintakasi is one of the finalists for this year. The movie stars JM de Guzman, John Wayne Sace, Boots Anson Roa, Giselle Sanches, Alcris Galura and Erich Gonzales.

Cinemalaya 2011 Entry: Ang Babae sa Septic Tank

ANG BABAE SA SEPTIC TANK by Marlon Rivera

Starring: Eugene Domingo, Kean Cipriano, JM de Guzman and Cai Cortez

Ang Babae sa Septic Tank chronicles a day in the life of three ambitious, passionate but misguided filmmakers as they set out to do a quick pre-prod at Starbucks, a courtesy call to their lead actress, Eugene Domingo, and an ocular inspection of their film’s major location, the Payatas dumpsite. Director Rainier, Producer Bingbong and Production Assistant Jocelyn are well-to-do, well-educated film school graduates who are dead set on making an Oscar worthy film. They believe they have a winning script, the energy and the drive to make their dreams come true. Like most filmmakers they know, they have devised a screenplay that will show the real essence of our culture: poverty. In the course of one day, they brainstorm and exhaust all possible treatment of their project: the story of Mila (Eugene Domingo), a mother from the slums, who out of desperation to survive, has sold her child to a pedophile. As they discuss the possible executions of the story, the movie-within-a-movie gets reborn in Jocelyn’s imagination several times. As a gritty no frills neo-realist film, as a glossy musical, as an over-the-top melodrama and as a docu drama using non-actors. For their last task of the day, they visit the dumpsite for the first time. As filmmakers gunning for authenticity, they get excited with the ”beauty” of the squalor around them. Soon enough, they are faced with reality as they come face to face with the real effects of their chosen subject. Babae sa Septic Tank is a comedy about misguided ambitions, the art of making art and the romanticization of poverty.