Writing
Two former high school ex-friends — an athlete and a scholar — reluctantly reunite when their daughters become friends and have a birthday sleepover, battling unresolved tensions (and feelings) towards one another.
Using a camcorder, a young child tries to get her busy parents' attention, hoping to reunite them for another family dinner.
T’yanak is the story of Julie’s adopted baby who transforms into a monster and terrorizes their quiet town of Putting Bato with a series of brutal murders, including the wife of townsman who gets wrongly imprisoned for T’yanak’s crime.
A young gay man in Manila accidentally ends up joining an older group of friends when he gets the wrong address on a Grindr hook-up. In a way, it’s a coming of age story and it’s also a story about friendship, about love, and about navigating the complexities of being young and gay in Manila.
A mysterious young woman wanders around what seems to be a city of distraught, only to discover humanity's social collapse and the true monsters behind it.
A woman fears she'll consume her lover, haunted by her mother's cannibalistic legacy and love's dark hunger.
Anna is brought to the province to meet her relatives for the first time. With its unfamiliar sights and sounds, she doesn't like it one bit. Her experience is made worse when she meets three kids who bully her into going into a haunted enchanted forest. Together with her dog, Rambo, she ventures into the shadows and makes a startling discovery.
A woman struggles to let go after the disappearance of her husband which prompts her to create the illusion of his death.
A woman whose whole life is her art, but when she loses it she goes into a self-exile, only to be, hopefully, reinvigorated by a young boy daring to bring it all back.
Three dark stories in tribute to the Master of Horror, Peque Gallaga.
Rome and Ethan have been together for 14 years. He is the love of her life, and she is his number one supporter. They are each other's firsts, and to their friends, they are the perfect couple. When the two begin to feel that their relationship has gone stale, they explore the idea of going open. It's something Ethan wants to do and it's the only way Rome feels she can do to keep her man. They agree that they are allowed to have sex with strangers, but they are not allowed to fall in love. In a relationship built over time, the two begin to "explore" expecting to salvage the exact same thing they are giving up. In the end, they learn the importance of the very thing that they have been blind to–a relationship without trust will eventually crumble.
Lolo Magno, once a celebrated analog photographer, now runs a struggling film processing lab in the midst of the digital era. As he develops film rolls for customers like Roy, a young man dealing with a lingering heartbreak, and Anna, a curious and aspiring analog photographer, Magno finds unexpected moments of connection and quiet introspection.
"Puso 3" is a digital trilogy: "Lost and Found", "Siklo" and "Kulam". "Lost and Found," is an off-beat, out-of-the-ordinary story about a unique journey and surreal realizations. It's a quirky comedy about missing persons, "accepting the bizaare and discovering the nature of the people close to you during stressful moments." "Siklo," on the other hand, is an inspiring tale of optimism. It tackles domestic violence, with the victim joining a support group whose leader the victim becomes close to, sharing her heartaches and desires with her. A striking twist will make the victim realize that her life need not end in despair, knowing that after each love lost, life goes on. "Kulam," is a mystic and intriguing story about love and black magic.
A story about a documentarist who interviews a number of individuals who acquired the HIV virus.
"Agaton & Mindy" tells the story of two young dancers from different background. Mindy (Louise De Los Reyes) is from rich family and suffers from depression. Agaton (Chase Vega) is from poor family and is searching for his mother (Dina Bonnevie) who abandoned him while he was a young child. Both meet in a dance class handled by Tanya Dolokhov (Cherie Gil) who pairs them up in a dance recital. A brilliant and devotional teacher, Tanya encourages her students to tap into their wild sides for inspiration, and this is also the time when their romance blossoms... (filmasia.blogspot.com)
