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- 2/2/2023
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
“Aurora,” a horror thriller directed by Yam Laranas has been acquired by Netflix. It is one of the first films from The Philippines to be picked up by the global streaming giant and will play out from April 25.
With a screenplay by Laranas and Gin de Mesa, the film sees a passenger ship, the Aurora, mysteriously collide into the rocky sea threatening an entire island. A young woman and her sister try to survive by finding the missing dead for a bounty – until the dead themselves come looking for shelter.
It had its theatrical premiere at the prestigious Metro Manila festival in December and this year is nominated for the Famas award for best visual effects.
The film features Anne Curtis, an Australian-born woman who became a child star in the Philippines. Curtis is now one of the country’s biggest celebrities and a social media phenomenon. The film also...
With a screenplay by Laranas and Gin de Mesa, the film sees a passenger ship, the Aurora, mysteriously collide into the rocky sea threatening an entire island. A young woman and her sister try to survive by finding the missing dead for a bounty – until the dead themselves come looking for shelter.
It had its theatrical premiere at the prestigious Metro Manila festival in December and this year is nominated for the Famas award for best visual effects.
The film features Anne Curtis, an Australian-born woman who became a child star in the Philippines. Curtis is now one of the country’s biggest celebrities and a social media phenomenon. The film also...
- 4/3/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
"Are you asking me to wait for bodies to get to shore?" The first trailer has debuted for a very interesting mystery horror titled Aurora from The Philippines. Made by Filipino director Yam Laranas, the film is about an island nation that is disrupted when a massive passenger ship named Aurora mysteriously collides and overturns. The story follows a young woman, the owner of a rundown inn, who must work to stay alive by finding missing dead bodies for a bounty - while at risk of danger from visitors who seek shelter in her home. Starring Anne Curtis (who also stars in BuyBust) with Mercedes Cabral, Andrea Del Rosario, Sue Prado, Ricardo Cepeda, Ruby Ruiz, Allan Paule, and Arnold Reyes. The imagery of the boat in this reminds me of the Costa Concordia disaster, it's just so eerie seeing a boat half flipped like that. Freaky. Here's the official trailer...
- 11/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The distributor has acquired Us rights from Films Distribution to Brillante Mendoza’s Philippines Oscar submission.
Ma’ Rosa received its world premiered in Cannes where it earned Jaclyn Jose the best actress award.
The film takes place against the backdrop of police corruption as parents of a poor family in Manila sells drugs on the side to make ends meet.
First Run Features is planning a spring 2017 release.
Julio Diaz, Andi Eigenmann, Felix Roco, Mercedes Cabral, Jomari Angeles, Maria Isabel Lopez, Inna Tuason and Baron Geisler round out the key cast.
Marc Mauceri of First Run Features brokered the deal with Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Films Distribution.
Ma’ Rosa received its world premiered in Cannes where it earned Jaclyn Jose the best actress award.
The film takes place against the backdrop of police corruption as parents of a poor family in Manila sells drugs on the side to make ends meet.
First Run Features is planning a spring 2017 release.
Julio Diaz, Andi Eigenmann, Felix Roco, Mercedes Cabral, Jomari Angeles, Maria Isabel Lopez, Inna Tuason and Baron Geisler round out the key cast.
Marc Mauceri of First Run Features brokered the deal with Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Films Distribution.
- 11/3/2016
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Coming back to Cannes Film Festival after last year’s Taklub in the Un Certain Regard section, Filipino director Brillante Mendoza will return to the main competition line-up with Ma’ Rosa. His first time back in the section since he picked up Best Director in 2009 for Kinatay, the first trailer has arrived today for the intense-looking drama.
According to the official synopsis, the plot follows “Rosa, mother of four, owns a small convenient store in the slums of Manila. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, sell narcotics on the side, until the police comes to arrest them. Their children have to trade the little they have left to pay off the police.”
Check out the trailer below for the film starring Jaclyn Rose, Julio Diaz, Felix Roco, Andi Eigenmann, Kristofer King, Mercedes Cabral, Jomari Angeles, and Maria Isabel Lopez.
Cannes 2016 begins on May 11th.
According to the official synopsis, the plot follows “Rosa, mother of four, owns a small convenient store in the slums of Manila. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, sell narcotics on the side, until the police comes to arrest them. Their children have to trade the little they have left to pay off the police.”
Check out the trailer below for the film starring Jaclyn Rose, Julio Diaz, Felix Roco, Andi Eigenmann, Kristofer King, Mercedes Cabral, Jomari Angeles, and Maria Isabel Lopez.
Cannes 2016 begins on May 11th.
- 5/2/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Embroiderer
Director: Brillante Mendoza // Writer: Zig Dulay
Brillante Mendoza, one of the most notable directors working in the Philippines, has had constant output since his controversial win as Best Director for Kinatay at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (he’d received previous murmurs of international renown for titles like 2008’s Service and 2005 debut The Masseur. He’s been quiet since the underwhelming experimental horror film Sapi in 2013, while other titles, like 2012’s Thy Womb, are often delayed considerably before reaching the Us. While 2014 was absent a new Mendoza title, earlier in the year it was revealed that his latest project, The Embroiderer, had received funding (along with a documentary he was simultaneously working on). While the film concerns an 83-year-old woman whose embroidery business is on the verge of bankruptcy, we wonder if Mendoza’s regular muse Mercedes Cabral will play a part somewhere in the mix.
Cast: Not available.
Director: Brillante Mendoza // Writer: Zig Dulay
Brillante Mendoza, one of the most notable directors working in the Philippines, has had constant output since his controversial win as Best Director for Kinatay at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (he’d received previous murmurs of international renown for titles like 2008’s Service and 2005 debut The Masseur. He’s been quiet since the underwhelming experimental horror film Sapi in 2013, while other titles, like 2012’s Thy Womb, are often delayed considerably before reaching the Us. While 2014 was absent a new Mendoza title, earlier in the year it was revealed that his latest project, The Embroiderer, had received funding (along with a documentary he was simultaneously working on). While the film concerns an 83-year-old woman whose embroidery business is on the verge of bankruptcy, we wonder if Mendoza’s regular muse Mercedes Cabral will play a part somewhere in the mix.
Cast: Not available.
- 1/6/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: North American rights to Filipino Oscar entry Transit have sold to 7th Art Releasing, which will set a theatrical run for later this year. Stargate producer Dean Devlin‘s Electric Entertainment is still selling international on the Phillippines’ official 2014 Foreign Language Oscar entry which caught Devlin’s eye after a festival run last year. Hannah Espia makes her directorial debut with the Tagalog- and Hebrew-language drama about Filipino immigrants in Tel Aviv. Irma Adlawan, Ping Medina, Mercedes Cabral, Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Marc Justine Alvarez star in the story of a domestic worker with an expired visa who tries to hide […]...
- 6/10/2014
- Deadline
Isaac Julien's seven-screen installation, which features Franco as an art adviser, revolves around the flow of capital – the unseen director of all our lives
• Watch a trailer for Playtime here
The city rears up around us, lit windows against the night, the corporate buildings blocking the sky. In an all-white empty office, a hedge-fund manager plays a lonesome trumpet. A skittering drum kicks in, adding an urgent pulse. The pulse is money: capital at work. Ranks of computers and servers churn the numbers in a sub-basement world where the capital flows.
In an auction room, prices are spiralling. Actor James Franco, playing an art adviser, explains how art has become a hedge against money's instability. The price of art has nothing to do with the art itself. In another scene, auctioneer Simon de Pury explains the exponential rise of the art market since the 2008 financial crash. Superstitious, he always...
• Watch a trailer for Playtime here
The city rears up around us, lit windows against the night, the corporate buildings blocking the sky. In an all-white empty office, a hedge-fund manager plays a lonesome trumpet. A skittering drum kicks in, adding an urgent pulse. The pulse is money: capital at work. Ranks of computers and servers churn the numbers in a sub-basement world where the capital flows.
In an auction room, prices are spiralling. Actor James Franco, playing an art adviser, explains how art has become a hedge against money's instability. The price of art has nothing to do with the art itself. In another scene, auctioneer Simon de Pury explains the exponential rise of the art market since the 2008 financial crash. Superstitious, he always...
- 1/30/2014
- by Adrian Searle
- The Guardian - Film News
Transit, The Philippines' Submission for the Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. U.S. : None Yet. International Sales Agent: Electric Entertainment. It will screen at the Palm Springs Film Festival this January.
Storytelling is a matter of perspective. The artist deliberately chooses who is the protagonist and the role the secondary characters play in that individual’s narrative. Every incident is explored, for the most part, from a singular point of view. But what if the same story were told from the perspective of those in the periphery? What if everyone had the chance to display his or her own unique reaction to the same events? Would this place all the characters on the same level of importance and create a democratic retelling of the occurrence? Hannah Espia’s Transit attempts to decode a highly controversial subject by means of multiple vignettes that follow the same period of time as seen through the eyes of every member of a family. In this touching and skillfully edited piece, the director tackles a deeply relevant topic for Filipino nationals thousands of miles away from the Southeast Asian archipelago.
While most developed countries struggle with creating immigration policies, the right to citizenship by birth (jus soli) is perhaps the most divisive issue. The U.S. and Canada are the only two advanced economies that grant the privilege without objections; the rest of the world deals with the increasing globalization in distinct, sometimes morally questionable manners. In 2010, Israel approved a policy that would allow the government to deport small children of migrant workers who were born in the country, speak Hebrew, and have never seen their parents’ homelands. Espia’s film focuses on two of these children at risk of being separated from their loved ones.
Conscious of this threatening possibility, Moises (Ping Medina), a Filipino single father who works as caretaker for an elderly Israeli man, hides his 4-year-old son, Joshua (Marc Justine Alvarez), forbidding him from leaving the apartment they share with their compatriot Janet (Irma Adlawan), and her teenage daughter Yael (Jasmine Curtis). Both of their children were born in the Jewish state but are still considered foreigners which creates in them a fragmented identity between their environment and their heritage.
Under the new regulations, Janet’s daughter might be able to become a resident since she is in school and meets the age requirements. Nonetheless, the underlying issue is the turbulent mother-daughter relationship between them. Yael considers herself Israeli, while Janet is adamant about making her see that she does not truly belong with the majority but with her suffering Filipino countrymen. The makeshift family increases its already dysfunctional operations as it receives Tina (Mercedes Cabral), a new immigrant, who will stay with them until she saves enough money to live on her own.
Divided into five segments, one for each of the main characters, the film repeatedly revisits the same interactions as each individual slowly reveals his or her own motivations and contribution to the situation as a whole. On the one hand, Yael is in a relationship with a Jewish boy who sees her as an equal despite their ethnic differences. Still, knowing that Joshua, whom she considers a brother, is in danger of being deported, she can’t entirely find her role within Jewish society. In the same manner Moises’ friendship with his boss testifies of the important services workers like him provide to a country that doesn’t offer them the chance to become a part of it. Unable to speak Tagalog and eager to learn about the Torah, Joshua is essentially like any other kid born in Israel, but to the government he was born in "transit" to immigrant parents. His existence is caught up in between the country where he lives and an unknown homeland.
Thought provoking and carefully constructed to expose the complexity of the matter at hand in an encompassing fashion, Espia’s film delves into a defining part of the modern Filipino identify, one that affects those abroad and in the island nation. Giving each of the participants a particular voice paints a broad picture which questions the morality of the policy at the center of the story. With a proficient ensemble cast and a meticulous attention to its narrative structure, Transit is a poignant exploration of national identity in the increasingly globalized world we all live in today.
Read more about all the 76 Best Foreign Language Film Submission for the 2014 Academy Awards...
Storytelling is a matter of perspective. The artist deliberately chooses who is the protagonist and the role the secondary characters play in that individual’s narrative. Every incident is explored, for the most part, from a singular point of view. But what if the same story were told from the perspective of those in the periphery? What if everyone had the chance to display his or her own unique reaction to the same events? Would this place all the characters on the same level of importance and create a democratic retelling of the occurrence? Hannah Espia’s Transit attempts to decode a highly controversial subject by means of multiple vignettes that follow the same period of time as seen through the eyes of every member of a family. In this touching and skillfully edited piece, the director tackles a deeply relevant topic for Filipino nationals thousands of miles away from the Southeast Asian archipelago.
While most developed countries struggle with creating immigration policies, the right to citizenship by birth (jus soli) is perhaps the most divisive issue. The U.S. and Canada are the only two advanced economies that grant the privilege without objections; the rest of the world deals with the increasing globalization in distinct, sometimes morally questionable manners. In 2010, Israel approved a policy that would allow the government to deport small children of migrant workers who were born in the country, speak Hebrew, and have never seen their parents’ homelands. Espia’s film focuses on two of these children at risk of being separated from their loved ones.
Conscious of this threatening possibility, Moises (Ping Medina), a Filipino single father who works as caretaker for an elderly Israeli man, hides his 4-year-old son, Joshua (Marc Justine Alvarez), forbidding him from leaving the apartment they share with their compatriot Janet (Irma Adlawan), and her teenage daughter Yael (Jasmine Curtis). Both of their children were born in the Jewish state but are still considered foreigners which creates in them a fragmented identity between their environment and their heritage.
Under the new regulations, Janet’s daughter might be able to become a resident since she is in school and meets the age requirements. Nonetheless, the underlying issue is the turbulent mother-daughter relationship between them. Yael considers herself Israeli, while Janet is adamant about making her see that she does not truly belong with the majority but with her suffering Filipino countrymen. The makeshift family increases its already dysfunctional operations as it receives Tina (Mercedes Cabral), a new immigrant, who will stay with them until she saves enough money to live on her own.
Divided into five segments, one for each of the main characters, the film repeatedly revisits the same interactions as each individual slowly reveals his or her own motivations and contribution to the situation as a whole. On the one hand, Yael is in a relationship with a Jewish boy who sees her as an equal despite their ethnic differences. Still, knowing that Joshua, whom she considers a brother, is in danger of being deported, she can’t entirely find her role within Jewish society. In the same manner Moises’ friendship with his boss testifies of the important services workers like him provide to a country that doesn’t offer them the chance to become a part of it. Unable to speak Tagalog and eager to learn about the Torah, Joshua is essentially like any other kid born in Israel, but to the government he was born in "transit" to immigrant parents. His existence is caught up in between the country where he lives and an unknown homeland.
Thought provoking and carefully constructed to expose the complexity of the matter at hand in an encompassing fashion, Espia’s film delves into a defining part of the modern Filipino identify, one that affects those abroad and in the island nation. Giving each of the participants a particular voice paints a broad picture which questions the morality of the policy at the center of the story. With a proficient ensemble cast and a meticulous attention to its narrative structure, Transit is a poignant exploration of national identity in the increasingly globalized world we all live in today.
Read more about all the 76 Best Foreign Language Film Submission for the 2014 Academy Awards...
- 12/29/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has acquired all worldwide sales excluding the Philippines to the country’s official Oscar submission.
Hannah Espia makes her debut on the Tagalog and Hebrew-language film about the plight of Filipino immigrants in Israel.
Espia and Giancarlo Abrahan co-wrote the screenplay and Paul Soriano and Ernest Escaler produced.
Irma Adlawan, Ping Medina, Mercedes Cabral, Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Marc Justine Alvarez star in the story, which weaves together the lives of Filipinos in Tel Aviv as a new law threatens deportation.
Electric Entertainment’s new sales division led by Sonia Mehandjiyska will commence talks with buyers next month at the Afm.
“As someone who is both Filipino and Jewish, I was particularly moved by this film, though the themes of this film are truly universal and can be applied to almost every culture in the industrial world,” said Devlin.
“The filmmakers have taken a complex subject and have created an incredibly moving...
Hannah Espia makes her debut on the Tagalog and Hebrew-language film about the plight of Filipino immigrants in Israel.
Espia and Giancarlo Abrahan co-wrote the screenplay and Paul Soriano and Ernest Escaler produced.
Irma Adlawan, Ping Medina, Mercedes Cabral, Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Marc Justine Alvarez star in the story, which weaves together the lives of Filipinos in Tel Aviv as a new law threatens deportation.
Electric Entertainment’s new sales division led by Sonia Mehandjiyska will commence talks with buyers next month at the Afm.
“As someone who is both Filipino and Jewish, I was particularly moved by this film, though the themes of this film are truly universal and can be applied to almost every culture in the industrial world,” said Devlin.
“The filmmakers have taken a complex subject and have created an incredibly moving...
- 10/25/2013
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Womb Doom: Mendoza Gives Us Another Poverty Stricken Filipino Narrative
Quickly assuming the stature of one of the most important directors from the Philippines, Brillante Mendoza churns out another macabre narrative of the hard knock lives from his native land with the effective Thy Womb. Working at break neck speed and putting out several shorts and a title or two a year, he’s earned a prolific reputation after a 2009 Cannes win for Best Director for the infamous Kinatay, and then followed that up with a starring role for the one and only Isabelle Huppert. But he switches gears a bit for this latest story, leaving behind a violence that dictates the narrative arc to tell a meditatively tragic tale, one which simmers gracefully to its abrupt finale.
An older, childless Muslim couple, Bangas-An (Bembol Roco) and Shalena (Naura Aunor) share a quiet, yet enjoyable life together in a small,...
Quickly assuming the stature of one of the most important directors from the Philippines, Brillante Mendoza churns out another macabre narrative of the hard knock lives from his native land with the effective Thy Womb. Working at break neck speed and putting out several shorts and a title or two a year, he’s earned a prolific reputation after a 2009 Cannes win for Best Director for the infamous Kinatay, and then followed that up with a starring role for the one and only Isabelle Huppert. But he switches gears a bit for this latest story, leaving behind a violence that dictates the narrative arc to tell a meditatively tragic tale, one which simmers gracefully to its abrupt finale.
An older, childless Muslim couple, Bangas-An (Bembol Roco) and Shalena (Naura Aunor) share a quiet, yet enjoyable life together in a small,...
- 9/27/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Festival scene regular Brillante Mendoza is certainly a divisive filmmaker with his shaky-cam, documentary-like sensibilities. Like Hong Sang-soo has evidently uncovered, if you're a filmmaker who frequents Cannes with success, you're likely to catch the eyes of French-thesp Isabelle Huppert who's starring in the helmer's latest effort, "Captive." Based on the true story of the 2001 kidnapping of 20 hotel guests from the island of Palawan in the Philippines by the group known as Abu Sayyaf with Huppert playing a foreign missionary who is caught up in it all. While the clips are in Filipino with French subtitles, you can the sense of the film's about and Mendoza's style which, if anything, seems suited to story like this. Other than Huppert, we also spotted Mendoza's "Lola" star Rustica Carpio among the chaos with Maria Isabel Lopez, Mercedes Cabral and Joel Torre co-starring. "Captive," in fact, premiered at the...
- 2/13/2012
- The Playlist
What local films have been playing on movie screens in Asia in recent weeks? And will any of them travel to North America? The Philippines With students flocking back to school, collegiate romantic comedy Star Crossed Love is well-timed. Debuting at the recent Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Star Crossed Love is set in modern Manila, revolving around a "friends with benefits" relationship between a poor, geeky boy (Edgar Allan Guzman) and a rich, hot girl (Mercedes Cabral, Serbis, Thirst). "Very little actually happens in the movie in plot terms but, thanks to the insouciant dialogue … and the performances of the two leads, it makes engrossing viewing for most of its length," writes Derek Elley at Film Business Asia. "For a...
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- 8/23/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
We have three new clips in from Park Chan-Wook's "Thirst" (a.k.a. "Bakjwi") starring Eriq Ebouaney, Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-Kyun, Mercedes Cabral, Dal-su Oh. The film was the winner of the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Chan-Wook helms as well as writing alongside Jeong SeoGyeong and producing. This sees limited venues via Focus Features on July 31st. A priest becomes a vampire…another man’s wife is coveted…a deadly seduction triggers murder. Thirst is the new film from director Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)...
- 7/21/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Focus Features has new images in from Park Chan-wook's "Bakjwi" (a.k.a. "Thirst"), starring Eriq Ebouaney, Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-Kyun, Mercedes Cabral and Dal-su Oh. A priest becomes a vampire…another man’s wife is coveted…a deadly seduction triggers murder. Thirst is the new film from director Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance). Already a boxoffice smash in Korea. Also, catch your favorite Focus Features moments with clips from memorable and award-winning releases in this excellent clip addition. There's also a 30 second spot from "Away We Go" starring John Krasinksi and Maya Rudolph...
- 6/25/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have new images in from Focus Features' "Thirst," starring Eriq Ebouaney, Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-Kyun, Mercedes Cabral and Dal-su Oh. Park Chan-wook ("Lady Vengeance," "A Boy Who Went to Heaven") directs the film as well as writing the screenplay alongside Jeong Seo-Jeong. The film is produced by Universal Pictures, Moho Films, Cj Entertainment and Focus Features. See all the images here. Join the "Indie Film Fans" group on MovieJungle.net for this and more additions! What's it about? A priest becomes a vampire! Sang-hyun, a priest who believes that life is precious, volunteers for a secret vaccine development project to help save lives from a deadly virus. But during the experiment, he is infected by the virus and dies. When some unidentified blood is transfused into him, he miraculously comes back to life, but the blood has turned him into a vampire. Sang-hyun is now conflicted...
- 5/22/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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