
Zeus Bascon
Costume & Make-Up
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At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous journey across the uncharted Pacific, where his fleet faces starvation, mutiny, and the psychological toll of endless seas. Upon reaching the shores of Cebu, Magellan is pulled into a fatal conflict with the natives by his drive to spread Catholicism, culminating in his tragic doom.
Magellan

In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited in the light of early silent films.
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
Orphea

Bajingjing, an over-imaginative girl, accidentally swallows a santol seed. Believing that she’ll turn into a santol tree, she then prepares everything for her sick mom before she eventually becomes one.
Cotton Fruit Baby

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness

Tuding sets out on a journey to a distant town to track down the man who got her youngest sister pregnant, and she’s not going home without him. A pancit western set in the late-1940s.