10 posts tagged “independent films”
IndieSugbu proudly presents its maiden offering: "IGSOON" (The Sister). It can now be viewed at this link. A follow up teaser trailer of our next short film, "Kilum" is shown right after the end credits.
ENJOY! (Comments are appreciated)
Daghang Salamat,
Clee Andro
email: cineclee (at) gmail (d0t) com
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
He who neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future. -- Euripides
Premise: A person realises his future is no different than his past; it grows even darker, as he seeks absolution in the brink of a hopeless, remaining minute of his life.
Brief Synopsis
"Ang Manalagna" (The Fortune Teller) is a drama/thriller chronicling almost-a-decade the life of one Jake Lariosa, through a fortune teller's point of view. The year is 1999, when the world was going gaga over the Y2K hype and yet unperturbed by its consequences and plain oblivious to it: something far more shocking is eating Jake up -- a chagrin that has affected this Cebuano nursing student's normal perception of the world around him and his loved ones. A string of events collides into a sudden twist; while Jake suffers a metastatic, malignant brain tumor, it triggers a painful memory of his dark past -- as his life turns 180-degrees in the brink of death -- he seeks absolution, fraught by a questionable identity and his hopes of surviving the last shred of a shocking truth: his future was the past.
Cast of Characters:
JAKE LARIOSA, a Cebuano nursing student haunted by his dark past.
TONY LARIOSA, his father, a drunkard who is the center of Jake's conflict.
SUZANNE LARIOSA, his dysfunctional mother; she spends most of her time playing mahjong when critical family problems arise.
HANS, an effeminate 12-year old, precocious kid; he's a relative of the Lariosa's, whom Tony loosely calls his other "son."
LEA, Jake's nymphomaniac girlfriend who strongly denies over her sordid extra-curricular affairs.
PATRICK, Jake's next-door roommate; a straight-acting gay/voyeur neighbor who will stop nothing just to fulfill his fantasies with him.
JOSE MARIA DOMINGO, Jake's skeptical clinical instructor who is headstrong to fail him in his class.
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Profile:
Clee Albores-Villasor is a graphics designer for 7 years in Cebu City, Philippines. Deep inside him is an aspiring filmmaker wanting to escape from the daily grind and just go crazy with ideas using the powerful and effective storytelling tool that is called, film. He directed his first documentary, Ritmo sa Ritwal (Rhythm of the Ritual), for the recent 2007 Sinulog Video Documentary Competition last January, by the Sinulog Foundation and Cebu Filmmakers Society. Ritmo sa Ritwal became a Finalist for that competition. Ang Manalagna (The Fortune Teller) is his first full-length screenplay. If you are interested for a project collaboration and for other particulars about this, you can reach him through his email at cineclee@gmail.com.
Jérémy Segay, a member of the selection committee for the Directors’ Fortnight at the festival at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, is in town (Metro Manila) to scout for Filipino movies to be included this May.
I hope there are, or at least, one Cannes-worthy Filipino film out there. Pretty please.
Wow again. Talk about wowness!
Aureaus Solito is trailblazing in worldwide film festivals, at great speed for a fresh filmmaker, having earned the distinction of "an openly gay Palawano islander." This curious label for a Filipino director lands him again in the spotlight.
His second film, "Tuli," a recent groundbreaking work, lands in Sundance's "Spectrum" section this year. It won the The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) festival award in the recently concluded Berlin Film Festival.
Truth is stranger than fiction. The ridiculous and out-and-out idiocy of the Movie & TV Classification Board (MTRCB), in our country, has marked "Tuli" with an X-rating due to its brief lesbian kissing scenes. When will they ever grow up? MTRCB paints a disparaging portrait of how pathetic its "censorship board" (and not a classification board) is. It is a shot to the foot. It calls for a drastic change. Ergo, it must be CENSORED, albeit, indispensable, it must be CUT or even DISSOLVED. Fast!
Read Ruben V. Nepales' ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD: Sundance taps Pinoy filmmaker as speaker in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
From acclaimed director, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, comes Queen Raquela. This is a searing and enigmatic docu-drama about a prostitute ladyboy's endless search on life and the passions it brings. Raquela, a poor, street smart ladyboy dreams of making it to Paris in search for love and acceptance, but fate sends her, instead, in Iceland -- working in a fish factory. Shot in Cebu City, Paris and Iceland. Watch the trailer.
Balay Dakû - The first Ilonggo full-length independent digital movie.
After several years of living in Metro Manila, Julio, the youngest son of the Gonzalez family, returns for vacation in his home of Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Accompanying him is his Iloilo born and Metro Manila lived wife, Stella.
Upon their arrival in Bacolod, everything seems to be normal and routine. Julio reunites with his widowed mother Inday Carmen, his elder brother Boy, and his old friend Isabela. He introduces Stella to all of them.
As the days and weeks progress, things start to turn sour and frustrating as old and unresolved personal issues, that Julio left behind, start to creep back into their lives. Stella is left to adjust herself to this different environment and people, as they in turn try to adjust to her liberated ways.
Emotional undercurrents swirl. Strains on relationships between the family members slowly start to reveal themselves, and finally come to a boil.
Wow! Proof that Filipino filmmakers are making big waves in the international cinema scene. Auraeus Solito rocks!
From NETPAC's site:
Tuli shared the award with Momoi Kaori's Ichijiku no kao (Faces of a Fig Tree). Auraeus Solito directed Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros), winner of 14 international film awards, including 3 awards at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006. More festival winners.
TULI
Philippines, 2006, 107 Minutes, color
Director: Auraeus Solito
Screenwriter: Jimmy Flores
A group of young Filipino boys gathers at the creek. Through the lush forest, sun dapples the ground and water. A kind of ritual begins to transpire. The boys, one by one, are circumcised in a requisite rite of passage. A young girl, Daisy, is also there and becomes her father's stoic assistant in the act. Life in the remote Filipino village seems simple and innocent.
But as the children grow up, the plot becomes more complicated. Cut to Daisy, a beautiful young woman. She is dissatisfied with her life, and her father is continually drunk and increasingly abusive. An arranged marriage seems her only way out, but she has her eye on a different life. She is already falling in love with her female childhood friend--a relationship that threatens to tear the village apart.
As he did so well in Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros), Auraeus Solito again offers a glimpse into another culture; this time, it's not the grey city but the lush greens and rich hues of earth and sky. His story transpires in a magical, rustic style, where Old World spiritualism commingles with colorful Christian rituals. In Tuli, Solito transforms Daisy's male-dominated existence into a place where new ideas can thrive and prosper.— John Cooper
Screenwriter : Jimmy Flores
Executive Producer : Vincent del Rosario, Jr.
Cinematographers : Nap Jamir, Matk Gary, Regiben Romana
Editors : JD Domingo, Clang Sisson
Music : Pepe Smith, Shant Verdun
Production Manager : Endi "Hai" Balbuena
Cast : Desiree del Valle, Carlo Aquino, Vanna Garcia, Bembol Rocco, Amable Quiambao, Eugene Domingo
Director(s) Bios
Auraeus Solito
Auraeus Solito's first feature film, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, screened at Sundance in 2006 and went on to win 14 international awards, including 3 awards at the Berlin International Film Festival. It is also nominated for best foreign film at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards and is the Philippine entry for the 2007 Oscars. Tuli is Solito's second feature; it won awards for best picture and best director at the CineManila Film Festival. Solito traces his roots to the indigenous Palaw'an islanders of South Palawan, Philippines.
An interview with Auraeus Solito.
Source: http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=4688
