A promising and diverse line-up which
feature different stories have made the cut for this year’s Cinema One Originals Festival,
coming from a pool of veteran and up-and-coming film makers who are
allocated with P2 million each to showcase their films this November for
the annual film fest.
Baka Siguro Yata is a comedy drama which revolves around Carlo, a 29-year old unambitious graphic designer whose only passion
is to play music with his co-unambitious long-time friends. After
discovering that his girlfriend of 6 years is a lesbian, he seeks to
find refuge on a one-night stand with a high school classmate named
Melissa. However, Melissa gets pregnant which in turns everything in
disarray. Melissa’s sister and her boyfriend mulls over their planned
first sex but gets cold feet due to what happened to her sister. Carlo’s
divorced parents, on the other hand, discreetly starts seeing each
other as they rekindle their 20 year old relationship by having an
affair and secret meetings while they cheat on their new partner. Baka
Siguro Yata tells a story of love within three generations. It tells how
each generation understand and perceive the idea of love.
Starring: Dino Pastrano, Valerie "Bangs" Garcia, Cherie Gil , Ricky Davao, Katrina "Hopia" Legaspi, Boo Gabunada , Chanel Latorre, Anna Luna, Alex Medina, Nicco Manalo, Jerald Napoles
Written and Directed By: Joel Ferrer
Mga Rebeldeng May Kaso (Rebels with A Case) is about the aftermath of
the so-called People Power Revolution of 1986, spawning a group of young
dreamers bewildered, wondering, and wandering, discovering the fire of
youth, the loss of innocence, the journey into the core of one’s being,
immersing themselves in a brewing new alternative culture and a little
known and lowly regarded revolution of sorts – the emergence of a new
underground, independent, and alternative cinema.
Starring: Epy Quizon, Earl Ignacio, Nicco Manalo, Felix Roco
Directed By: Raymond Red
A story that follows a 32-year-old
former famous actress who loses everything in her life and decides to
commit suicide. On the day she decides to kill herself, she receives a
package containing four letters and a dead man’s ashes.
Starring: Kaye Abad, Patrick Garcia
Directed By: Ivan Andrew Payawal
Dahling Nick is a documentary drama exploring the life and works of National Artist for Literature, Nick Joaquin, who only accepted the National Artist Award on the condition the Marcos
administration release a well-known writer who was being unjustly
detained during Martial Law. Depicting the “inner world” of this
canonical writer, who wrote both novels as well as journalistic works,
the juxtaposition of documentary interviews, episodes from his life, and
evocative imagery from his literary pieces will create a cinematic
collage.
Starring: Raymond Bagatsing, Alessandra De Rossi
Screenplay By: Sari Dalena, Keith Sicat and Kris Lanot Lacaba
Directed By: Sari Dalena
Manang Biring is a comedy-drama about a feisty but terminally-ill old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise. Until one day, she receives a letter from her long-estranged daughter abroad announcing of her return for the holidays. As she races against time with her declining health, Biring will go to great lengths to prolong her life and gift her daughter and grandson a Happy Christmas.
Starring: Erlinda Villalobos, Angelina Kanapi , Alchris Galura, Patrick Sugui, Glaiza de Castro, Lance Raymundo, Cherry Pie Picache, Kathleen Pador, John Carlo Tan
Directed By: Carl Joseph E. Papa
Rashid, Jinky, Tisoy and Momoy are peddlers and petty criminals in the streets. When Jinky disappears during a heist, the boys presume she goes with the taxi driver they victimize, giving him an unsolicited sexual service. Danny, the taxi driver, actually brings Jinky home and exploits her as a house maid. The boys proceed with their normal thievery, and at the same time search for Jinky. In one of their misadventures, Moy, the youngest lad, got hit by a speeding car and dies.
Rashid, the Moslem boy, is left with the task on how to bury Moy in the public cemetery. He knows nothing about Christian burial customs. He ends up in a brawl with Tisoy who refuses to help him look for money. 3 years before, Rashid escapes imprisonment after he stabbed his classmate with a knife over a petty altercation
Tisoy proceeds to look for Jinky, his girlfriend. But instead of finding her, he sees an awe-inspiring apparition of a SUPER GIRL HEROINE wherever he goes. Maybe he is just missing Jinky so much, or he is longing for his mother who abandons him in the bus station when he was a kid. Or maybe he is simply high with “Solvent”.
Meantime, Jinky realizes that she’s being used as a pawn to offset an ongoing threesome between her abductor, Danny, his wife, and her paramour. Danny wants to engage Jinky’s criminal skill against his wife’s lover. Out of loyalty and gratitude, Jinky agrees to help Danny. That’s what he thought, until Jinky reveals the darkest seed of her ominous nature—surprising Danny down to his unexpected demise.
After burying Moy, Rashid finally retreats to his hometown province and faces his classmate’s parents to ask for their forgiveness. They have been waiting for him for a long time.
Tisoy moves ahead and joins a new gang of teenagers engaged in Akyat –bahay activity and the infamous riding in tandem modus operandi.
Starring: Zaijan Jaranilla, Teri Malvar, Sam Quintana, Bon Lentejas and Kayline Alcantara with OJ Mariano, Anna Luna, Mike Liwag and special participation of Lou Veloso, Junjun Quintana, Flor Salanga and Ruby Ruiz.
Directed By: Ralston Jover
Amidst legalized corruption, a son proves to his father that he is fit to survive in a dog-eat-dog world.
Starring: Junjun Quintana, Ricky Davao, Bernard Laxa, Elora Espano, Toie Lustre Anson, Renaissance, Gloria Sevilla, Mark Nepomuceno, Ricky Ibe, Moises Magisa
Directed By: Bor Ocampo
Miss Bulalacao is about a young drag queen, Dodong, who joins a barangay gay pageant to gain acceptance in his father’s community. He is instead met with hostility from his father, who chases him to a jungle, where he sobs to a lone bright star. What follows is the strangest night in his entire life, and an even stranger 9 months when he realizes he is pregnant. Dodong deals with ridicule from a barangay who does not believe him.
Starring: Russ Ligtas, Tessie Tomas, Nanette Inventor, Mon Confiado, Kaloy Olavides
Directed By: Ara Chawdhury
In an old house replete with images of Catholic icons and symbols, a young lady struggles with the demented religious fanaticism of her mother, who it seems cannot differentiate between pious fervour and demonic possession- for both exist simultaneously in her being. The daughter seeks help for mother’s behavior, but as days go by, their relationship turns from harrowing to horrific, as strange phenomena occur inside the house, driving the daughter to evade and overcome her mother’s deranged machinations.
Starring: Bing Pimentel, Max Eigenmann, Paolo Paraiso, Lou Veloso
Written By: Sheron Dayoc, Honee Alipio and Sher Bautista
Directed By: Sheron Dayoc
Cinema One Originals 2015 Festival will be held from November 8 – 17 2015 at Glorietta, SM Megamall, Resorts World Manila and Trinoma Cinemas.
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