Adriano Sanchez
Writing
Biography
Adriano Sanchez is a Filipino writer, producer, cinematographer, and director. Though new to the festival circuit, his work is gaining recognition. His first entry, the "Young Creatives Challenge," made him a screenwriting finalist, and his film Alitaptap was selected for the LIGAW! Benilde Romance Film Festival, marking his debut in the festival scene. - IMDb
Known For
The film follows an old man who looks back on a fleeting love that illuminated his life, only for it to vanish without a trace.
Firefly
Des, a sixteen-year old, has experienced being fingered as early as the age of seven. At age fourteen, she was raped by the same uncle and was sold by her aunt to Foreigners. She was brought to PREDA for her to recover from the incidents that happened. As she evolves and heals from it, she builds up her life again by staying and graduating junior highschool. Her graduation also marks her release from this facility. This sets her into a new journey of adjustments and new beginnings as she starts her studies in senior high. As she opens up to a new beginning, her story complicates with the law cases filed against her uncle and aunt.These cases are ongoing and the trials are yet to be made. For a young child that only wants to move forward with her life she is faced with the fear of the past.
Mariposa
A middle-aged man hires a male escort—not for sex, but to reconnect with his younger self.
the things we'd rather not talk about
A student walks home, unaware of what awaits after dark.
Kian
A photojournalist confronts the unchanging truth hidden in his lens.
Berdad
A young teen, caught between the body she has and the girl she knows herself to be, begins a harrowing transformation as puberty collides with her secret wish to transition.
Bloddie
A man on a stretcher in a hospital—dying.
Fin
Kael, now a serial killer, tracks down the man who ordered his parents’ murder.