Writing
Opon + Pasil + Tres + Echavez + Naval + Ormoc + Valencia. It’s Saturday and it’s black.
Seven directors. Seven stories. One Sunday.
A young drag queen, Dodong, who joins a barangay gay pageant to gain acceptance in his father’s community. He is instead met with hostility from his father, who chases him into a jungle, where he sobs to a lone bright star. What follows is the strangest night in his entire life, and an even stranger nine months when he realises he is pregnant. Dodong deals with ridicule from a barangay who does not believe him.
Random and not-so-random scenes in a day. Today is Tuesday.
A mail-order bride on her way to her dreams.
A young man is on a quest to find a mythical strain of cannabis called the SUPERPSYCHOCEBU. Along the way, he meets characters that appear to have lost their minds after trying it, one of them even possessed by the Devil, at which point he starts questioning whether he’s in for some good weed or just one hell of a bad trip.
A Filipino-American boxer on a pleasure trip, a prostitute on a mission, a local drug dealer experimenting with time travel, and a social climber all cross paths in Cebu, the beautiful Philippine southern island, in this deliriously imagined occult superhero movie.
Two heartbroken souls find themselves sitting beside each other in a crowded market on Valentine’s Day.
Short surrealist film by Odd Folk Films.
Tom's life is crumbling after his lover broke up with him, after losing his job he attempted to kill himself several times but is always foiled by a series of natural and supernatural forces. He eventually realized that there is more to life than love.
Life in a remote village in the Visayas turns upside down when villagers are stricken by an unknown disease. As the village chief and doctor try to control the situation, they discover that the dead are rising from their graves.
One city, one day, seven stories. The first of seven Binisaya Exquisite Corpse Experiment.
Desperately finding ways to support their sickly child, Noel and Liza welcome a new addition to their family, Ben, a rich foreigner who is hoping to build a family of his own. Together they play the game of deceit and make believe, but the truth is far from being hidden as the soap operas they consume daily that vividly mirror what they have been hiding all along.
Two frenemies encounter one misfortune after another.
Maya, a 13 year old cyberporn model, is abducted by a hideous river monster. She manages to escape and returns home to tell her mother, Claire, about it. Claire thinks her daughter is lying and in a fit of anger pushes the poor girl down the stairs. That night Maya sneaks out while her mother is asleep and returns to the monster waiting for her at the river. Days later after Maya was buried, Claire unearths her daughter’s grave only to find no dead body inside the coffin - only flowers.
Olivia, who sells knives for a living, develops a romantic obsession over her next door neighbor.
