QCinema celebrates the city’s 80th founding with amass of Filipino Filmmakers and a foray of talents in this year’s QCShorts Competition. So far so good, the short films offer a view on the mundane to the minute. In this brief article, we’ve gathered the synopsis for you along with some stills from the shorts.
Let us know which ones you’re excited to see on the screens:
JUDY FREE
Set in the early 2000s, ‘Judy Free’ tells the story of Judy, a young girl whose reality is intruded when her father, an Overseas Filipino Worker, suddenly comes home as an animated doodle figure after years of being away.
Judy lives in a small apartment with her mother Eden, her older brother Tonton, and her grandma Sene. Her father has left home ever since Judy can remember. Now that he came back, Judy has to spend one month with her father, a month filled with imported chocolates and other lavish items from abroad. Soon, she realizes that her plan to get close to him is tested when a commotion happens in the household. A photograph showing another child overseas. An impending feeling of their family’s dissolution.
Starring Miel Espinosa, Meryll Soriano, Angelita Loresco, Adrian Castanares, Kent Zamora
Written and Directed by: Jean Cheryl Tagyamon
Producers: Nonilon Abao, JP Habac
Creative Producer: Glenn Barit
Associate Producer: Tiara Orig
Director of Photography: Steven Paul Evangelio
Production Designer: Alvin Francisco
Production Manager: Patricia Pamintuan
Editor: Jean Cheryl Tagyamon, Glenn Barit
Music: Glenn Barit
TOKWIFI
As Limmayug carries firewood back to his home village, something falls from the sky: a 1950s television, with a hysterical showbiz star trapped inside it. She is Laura Blancaflor. The frightened man saves the television — nay, saves Laura — from the flames of the impact.
Worlds apart in their language and methods, the two try their best to engage each other. But for Limmayug, a citizen of an off-the-grid mountain town, Laura’s TV talk seems too contrived and, alas, during commercial breaks, uncontrollably tactless as well.
Directed by Carla Pulido Ocampo
Produced by Lester Valle
Stars Kurt Lumbag Alalag and Adrienne Vergara
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Years after mining operations began, a once rugged and undisturbed town changed drastically. Koi, a fresh graduate in his early 20s, returns home with a left ear infection after more than two years of being away. Koi accompanies his mother Tonet in waiting for the former’s father, both of them clueless as to whether he could make it home alive after an accident in the extraction tunnel.
Starring Kael Vilar, Irish Yes Layas and Carla Zarcal
Writer, Director: Joanne Cesario
Producer: Alyssa Suico
Line Producer: Kweng Aguirre
Production Manager: Pat Pamintuan
1st Assistant Director: Mervine Aquino
2nd Assistant Director: Karen Lustañas
Director of Photography: Jippy Pascua
2nd Camera: Jhayle Meer
Production Designer: Alvin Francisco
Editors: Celina Donato, Joanne Cesario
Sound Designer: Mikko Quizon
Music: Owel Alvero, Dosage
Colorist: Carla Manalo
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Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss is Sonny Calvento’s first short feature film.
Starring Phyllis Grande, Angelina Kanapi, Bob Jbeili
Director: Sonny Calvento
Screenplay: Arden Rod Condez
Producer: Sheron Dayoc
Director of Photography: Rommel Sales
Assistant Directors: Tin Velasco, Ryanne Murcia
Production Designer: Harley Alcasid
Editor: Carlo Francisco Manatad
Sound: Mikko Quizon, Daryl Libongco
Colorist: Timmy Torres
Music: Len Calvo
ISANG DAA’T ISANG MARIPOSA
101-year old pious and pragmatic Lola Perla uses her 100,000-peso government reward for centenaries for one last chance at love.
Director & Screenwriter: Norvin De los Santos
Producers: Petersen Vargas
Jade Castro
Alex Poblete
Director of Photography: Dino Placino
Production Designer: James Rosendal
Editors: Chuck Durana, Nicolai Navarro
Music: Jarrett Cross Pinto
Screening Dates and Venue:
Monday October 14
*GALA Premiere, Gateway Cinema 2 – 6:45PM
Tuesday, October 15
UPFI Cine Adarna, 7:00PM
Wednesday, October 16
Gateway Cinema 7 – 1:00PM
Thursday, October 17
Robinsons Galleria, Cinema 3 – 4:00PM
Saturday, October 19
TriNoma, Cinema 4 – 1:00PM
Cinema 76 Anonas – 7:00PM
Sunday, October 20
Cinema Centenario – 7:00PM
Tuesday, October 22
Cinema 76 Anonas – 7:00PM
Cinema Centenario – 9:00PM
Watch the trailer below:
Special thanks to Sir Ed Lejano, Kelly Austria, Krystal Belino, and April Macaraeg for the promotional materials. Let us support Filipino Film in its Centennial Year.
