The longest journey you will make in your life is from your head to your heart. - Sioux Legend
An underprivileged Filipina dreams of becoming a singer meets an American vacationer heading to the island looking for a one night stand, both ultimately finding something else.
Julie needs some money... fast. A big singing reality show auditions is going to happen at the town's capital and she needs to go. Her ticket to instant money is by selling her services as a tourist guide to some visitors of the resort island where she lives with her poor, blind mother.
She gets her chance when she meets Zach, a visitor of the island from America in search of True Love's Peak. It is a secluded place in the island surrounded by a myth-- that anybody who sets foot on the grounds of True Love's Peak is soon bound to find true love if anyone cares enough to believe.
Julie knows the real story of the myth but she doesn't believe. She rather follow her dreams to be somebody one day at any cost. Zach is bearing the pains of losing a loved one, someone he made a promise to believe. But he's in the island to forget all that, to maybe just get wild and get lucky.
As the two embark on the journey, they both find themselves gravitating towards the promise of that true love. But will they be brave enough to realize that the myth and the place and their own pains actually make them vulnerable to something beyond their control? And whether it is true love or not, they will both have to journey from the head to the heart.
An underprivileged Filipina dreams of becoming a singer meets an American vacationer heading to the island looking for a one night stand, both ultimately finding something else.
Julie needs some money... fast. A big singing reality show auditions is going to happen at the town's capital and she needs to go. Her ticket to instant money is by selling her services as a tourist guide to some visitors of the resort island where she lives with her poor, blind mother.
She gets her chance when she meets Zach, a visitor of the island from America in search of True Love's Peak. It is a secluded place in the island surrounded by a myth-- that anybody who sets foot on the grounds of True Love's Peak is soon bound to find true love if anyone cares enough to believe.
Julie knows the real story of the myth but she doesn't believe. She rather follow her dreams to be somebody one day at any cost. Zach is bearing the pains of losing a loved one, someone he made a promise to believe. But he's in the island to forget all that, to maybe just get wild and get lucky.
As the two embark on the journey, they both find themselves gravitating towards the promise of that true love. But will they be brave enough to realize that the myth and the place and their own pains actually make them vulnerable to something beyond their control? And whether it is true love or not, they will both have to journey from the head to the heart.
Starring: Louise delos Reyes, Alexis Petiprez (French actor), Chanel Latorre, and Irma Adlawan.
Co-Written and Directed By:Aloy Adlawan and Gino M. Santos
Anino ng Kahapon (Shadows of the Past) is about a family dealing with the challenges of a member with schizophrenia. When Ed (TJ Trinidad) leaves for the Middle East for work, he leaves behind Irene (Agot Isidro) and their young son Brian (Carl Acosta) in the care of his brother Carlo (Carlo Cruz) and mother Flor (Upeng Galang). Ed’s departure triggers Irene’s schizophrenia. Irene starts turning fearful of shadows, which she says belong to undercover operatives lurking about. ( Irene’s mother was a nurse that cared for martial law rebels and Irene, as a little girl, was a witness to her mother’s political activities.)
As Irene’s disposition spirals into paranoia, the family’s peace is affected. Ed and the rest of the family struggle to help Irene while they all deal with her condition.
The film explores the many challenges that the couple and the family go through because of schizophrenia. It unfolds the varying degrees, forms and issues of surveillance (the feeling of being policed), which are at the heart of the relationship and conflict of a schizophrenia patient and caregiver especially during the treatment phase.
As Irene’s disposition spirals into paranoia, the family’s peace is affected. Ed and the rest of the family struggle to help Irene while they all deal with her condition.
The film explores the many challenges that the couple and the family go through because of schizophrenia. It unfolds the varying degrees, forms and issues of surveillance (the feeling of being policed), which are at the heart of the relationship and conflict of a schizophrenia patient and caregiver especially during the treatment phase.
Starring: Agot Isidro and TJ Trinidad
Also Starring: Carlo Cruz, Carl Acosta, Upeng Galang, with the special participation of Ku Aquino
Written and Directed By: Alvin Yapan
Due to her senility, retired teacher Mila, finds it hard to connect with her grandson, Rafael.
Her condition brings a strain in their relationship. One misunderstanding leads to another that causes the former model teacher to run away from home.
Mila finds solace in the company of neighbors and friends.
While looking for his grandmother, Rafael soon realizes how great and ideal his Lola is as a person and as a teacher based on the accounts and testimonies of her former students and by the people whose lives she has touched in the exercise of her profession.
Starring: Biboy
Ramirez, Vaness del Moral, Dennis Padilla, Jenine Desiderio, Mel
Kimura, Dexter Doria, Baste Alcanses, Darry dela Cruz, Lui Manansala and
Ms. Perla Bautista
Written and Directed By: Joven Tan
When a man becomes the creator of god, does it make himself a god too?
In a town with a culture starting to vanish, Acclaimed Director Bing Lao and the Film Academy of Pampanga deliver you a story of a man who creates god and his personal battles against his own demons. Focusing on the woodcarving tradition of Betis, "Dukit" is a tribute to the town's century old woodworking tradition, their faith to their GOD and Patron Saint Santiago, their devotion to the church and the willingness of the few remaining woodcarvers to retain the woodcarving tradition in spite of this modern generation.
“Dukit” is a rags-to-riches story of a sculptor in Betis, Pampanga. Set against a rural backdrop of woodcarving activities in his province, it is a story of a man who has personal issues with his father who abandoned him, his three younger siblings and his ailing mother at an early age making him the sole breadwinner of the family. His works of art are reflective of his sufferings in life until that fateful day when he comes to terms with himself by forgiving his erring father.
Starring: Raquel Villavicencio, Wifredo Layug, Bor Ocampo, Mark Grisworld, Thea Lelay, Bambalito Lacap, Petite Dobles, Rhea Lim and Mary Grace Martinez
Written and Directed By: Armando Lao
In a town with a culture starting to vanish, Acclaimed Director Bing Lao and the Film Academy of Pampanga deliver you a story of a man who creates god and his personal battles against his own demons. Focusing on the woodcarving tradition of Betis, "Dukit" is a tribute to the town's century old woodworking tradition, their faith to their GOD and Patron Saint Santiago, their devotion to the church and the willingness of the few remaining woodcarvers to retain the woodcarving tradition in spite of this modern generation.
“Dukit” is a rags-to-riches story of a sculptor in Betis, Pampanga. Set against a rural backdrop of woodcarving activities in his province, it is a story of a man who has personal issues with his father who abandoned him, his three younger siblings and his ailing mother at an early age making him the sole breadwinner of the family. His works of art are reflective of his sufferings in life until that fateful day when he comes to terms with himself by forgiving his erring father.
Starring: Raquel Villavicencio, Wifredo Layug, Bor Ocampo, Mark Grisworld, Thea Lelay, Bambalito Lacap, Petite Dobles, Rhea Lim and Mary Grace Martinez
Written and Directed By: Armando Lao
“Saka-Saka” refers to kept hitmen by moneyed politicians who live in the remote areas of the province. Their main source of livelihood is farming. They descend the mountains when tasked to kill prominent targets assigned to them. Based on a true to life story, it is also a tale of two brothers turned killers for hire after the death of their parents.
Starring: Ejay Falcon, Joseph Marco, Baron Geisler, Kathleen Hermosa, Perla Bautista, Akiko Solon, Toby Alejar, and Mon Confiado.
Written and Directed By: Toto Natividad
MMFF 2013 NEW WAVE SECTION will be shown from Dec 18-24, 2013 in Glorietta 4 and SM Mega Mall
cinemas!
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