Directing
Five lives. One city. In the heart of Manila, their stories intertwine through desire, heartbreak, and the rawness of life.
At the luxurious Wet & Wild Resort, a group of glamorous women become infatuated with a charming new pool boy whose irresistible allure draws them in. But as passion turns to obsession, they soon uncover a dark secret that reveals he’s not as innocent as he seems.
Alexa witnesses a simple mahjong night turned bloody when all the player's dark secrets are discovered - including Alexa's illicit affair with her stepfather.
Desperada follows a deeply traumatized young woman rescued from the streets and brought to a shelter for the mentally ill, where—amid broken souls and painful pasts—she discovers healing and unexpected love that proves even the most damaged hearts can still hope.
A steamy tale of love, lust, and betrayal. When Adele's sister Bea returns with her girlfriend Cheska, a secret affair begins between Cheska and Adele's boyfriend, Rener, leading to a climactic ending when they're caught.
Grace and Ivy are half-sisters who finally reunite in New Zealand. But as they begin to share this new life together, that may also include sharing one man.
A wife resorts to sexual explorations in order to save their marriage but when her plan backfires she devises an evil scheme.
Lola Nelia, a seamstress, raises her grandchildren - Paolo, Somon and Teresa (who is a child with special needs) - after the early death of their parents. Tragically, Paolo dies in an accident, leaving only Nelia and Simon, a working student, to support their struggling family. As Simon nears graduation as a cum laude scholar, they are filled with hope.
This is the story of Inno, the son of Pol, the original Macho Dancer.
A nurse is assigned to work at an island called Isla Bato, where men treat women with lust. As she experiences the people's madness, she plans a way to get out of the island.
On the eve of her school’s annual Talent Show in a small rural village in the mountains of Iloilo, twelve-year-old Thirdy is worried she will not be able to perform because she could not afford to rent a traditional costume and pay the required contribution. Her ailing but affable grandfather, Cesario, acts as her sole guardian. He works as a bamboo farmer, but they could barely make ends meet. In the midst of all these, Thirdy starts having visions of a mysterious man. She believes the apparition is that of her long dead father while everyone else dismisses her visions as nothing more than fantasies or illusions. On the day of the Talent Show, everything unravels as village problems and family secrets finally collide.
The mysterious death of a family patriarch during Holy Week forces his three estranged granddaughters to return to their ancestral home, where their simmering resentments explode just as a vengeful supernatural presence—anchored to a sinister religious statue known as the 13th Apostle—begins to terrorize them, exposing a truth far more terrifying than any ghost.
In Japan's quiet apartments, a Filipino kodokushi cleaner meets an elderly widower who asks him for one final favor before he dies. What begins as a promise becomes a quiet story of grief, family, and accepting life's impermanence.
In the not too distant future, civilization, as we know it, has ceased to exist. The world reels from over population. To control this dilemma, women are sequestered in concentration camps. Meanwhile, a wandering soul navigates the hostile surroundings, with a hood that shields her identity. Sabel (Brittany Marie Baldoza) tries to stay under the radar to avoid the fate of other women. Then she finds Abet being attacked by gay thugs. Will she lend a hand at the risk of revealing her identity?
A woman relieves the heavy burden from her past when she finally exacts revenge on the man who murdered her entire family.
When they have no one to pass their "mutya" forward so they can finally die, aging "aswangs" in Antique are believed to seek for the mystical lake in Negros where they can just turn into ashes and disappear forever. This is the story of a 78 year old aswang and the young man who helped her find the lake.
Nonoy and Toto are identical twins. Toto has always been the leader and has always been the stronger and the braver of the two brothers. All his life, Nonoy has looked up to Toto, learning what he can about everything. But things are about to change which will turn Nonoy’s life upside down.
A young man from the U.S. returns to the Philippines to search for his long-lost father, only to uncover a past filled with secrets, identity struggles, and danger—leading to a heartbreaking reunion in the midst of violence.
Robert and his wife have a daughter and an adopted son, Matthew, whose biological father is Robert's deceased best friend and former lover, Domeng. Conflict ensues as Robert becomes sexually attracted to a teenage Matthew while Matthew impregnates his stepsister much to the shame of the family matriarch.
After almost fourteen years, Anastacia, now a grown-up, returns to Isla Babuyan (Pigland) and reunites with Rose, her mother. As she tries to reconnect with her mother, Anastacia learns of Rose's ill-reputation and sordid story. Despised as the town's whore and mistres, Rose runs and owns the only bar in the island. As they re-establish their ties, they both get entagled in a web of problems that will test their love for each other and eventually carve the connection they both aspire and strive to build between them.
