4 posts tagged “indie films”
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
I am simply agonizing over my script, "Tinsyon." It has taken on a mind of its own: a screenplay which I intended to end in a matter of just eighteen pages (I started it last February 4), but now it has blown out of proportions -- 81 pages to be exact! (Ha! Coincidence at least, but such cliché!) You say, "Eighty-one?" Don't bother asking. I want to believe that I can make it past the 100th page. Sure, why not? It's my "first full-length screenplay" for a first full-length film project. I am waiting for its delivery. And I feel like shouting and grimacing now. It has an end and a beginning to it. A flair that every "aspiring writer," like me, is mirrored by the first sign of unkempt goatee, rather than the smiles it can bring (without the mirror, now). So I am stuck in three pivotal twists. Will I just shoot the father of the protagonist? Will I spill blood at his mother's face? Will I show a "transmogrifying" scene? Kayata! Na-unsa naman ni tawon? Treatment, treatment. Will someone, please, hand me that bandage?
It's tactless to say scary, but yeah, it's hellva itchy. Burning, smouldering, all-consuming in its path. It wants to be done with. The more you don't want to write something, the more it wants to be written. That said, I just wanna go out and wash myself in the rain, if there will be. I am targeting (and I still keep saying this) to finish it in a week. Routine work mummifies my creative spirit (must be an unrequited poltergeist, who's never tried a blowjob, maybe...) ever since I got hired last week. It's a question of paradox, borne out of need: Would you rather have an 8-hour job (but soon you will be besieged by matters of priority and you simply forgot your passion) or have the whole year "to be creative," say, write a script... on an empty stomach?
This script wants to get suffocated with these words, now, "c'mon final draft!" Something in my mind now: Eat first. Write later. Yeah, right.
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.
