3 posts tagged “cebuano filmmakers”
The pace was slow. The scene set up was grueling, lights and all. Incidentally, it was Paolo's birthday as well. We were under time pressure, but everyone had fun. Left column photos: The Acting Workshop; Introducing the actors on BEING and resolving issues on "tensions" and "reluctancies." Right column photos: On the set with "The Disturbers," Private Party Scene. (More photos at www.friendster.com/disturbers & www.friendster.com/cineclee).
(Photos courtesy of Mian Robles).
Want to star in a horror indie short film?
AUDITIONS EXTENDED THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 21! (2nd Batch Casting Call).
Where: Alejandro's Café (Back of Cebu Doctor's Hospital, along Don Jose Avila St. Capitol Site, Cebu City)
Time: 2PM
Requirements:
> 1 page personal biography (include acting experiences if you have) + 5 x 7in. recent colored headshot.
> 30 seconds - 1 minute monologue piece of your choice.
Succeeding Saturdays and Sundays are Shooting Dates/Production Creative Meets.
Production Wrap: End of May (Tentative)
THE DISTURBERS
Plot outline:
When a person dies, an evil entity steals and inhabits his soul immediately. In death, their malevolence reunite, refusing to leave our physical realms. One night, this sinister and shivering account was captured on amateur video, in a sleepy, dark lonely highway of Cebu City, Philippines.
Contact details: Clee Villasor | cineclee@gmail.com | +63 928 332 1887
Production blog: http://clee.vox.com
WE NEED...
A CAST: ranging from 10-15 yrs old (boys), 19-30ish (male & female), and 50-60something years old (male & female).
PRODUCTION:
Production Manager
Production Designer
Movie Stills Photographer
Secretariat
Technical crews
Okay where do I begin? Give it up to this guy!
Little did I know that the son of a famous, award-winning surgeon here in Cebu City, who would usually come to visit his photographer friend on lazy afternoons (where I do graphic designs for this famous photographer), for a quick respite from his 15-blade (HE IS A SURGEON who dabbles into PHOTOGRAPHY for crying out loud!) and would intensely share ideas with me on Photoshop is ...
Paolo Dy, a Cebuano, who is making headlines now:
Filipino cinematographer enters Spielberg show for filmmakers.
ON THE LOT
From Mark Burnett, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television, ON THE LOT affords aspiring filmmakers the opportunity of a lifetime: a $1-million DreamWorks development deal. Over the season, the 16 filmmakers will produce short films in every genre every week and the viewers will vote on who gets eliminated. The show will premiere with a one-hour auditions episode on Wednesday, May 16.
Watch Mr. Dy's 5-minute, chilling short film, "QWERTY" at http://films.thelot.com/films/19175. The ending is a killer, really! ALL-OUT votes to him, now!
"QWERTY" is well conceptualised. It gives you the utter thrill, what's-with-the-title paradox. Paolo Dy's compact narrative is engaging and one that sends spinal shivers, too, for such a short. The lighting is definitely superb, the acting is flat-out serious and near-perfect. The ending is a real killer, you'll never know it coming. It sure beat the hell out of me.
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SPOILER ALERT! (Do not read below if you haven't seen the film yet)
Paolo reveals his "amazing trick" of the ending (no guys, it isn't CG!):"We shot a photo, cut it up into small pieces, and used a program to convert each piece into an ASCII-art image. Then we printed out each piece and put everything together. 400 pages!" He laughs.
It is a brilliant idea! See for yourself.
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Paolo Dy. Photo Credit: http://community.thelot.com/profiles/profile.aspx?un=paolody
