My Ex and Whys

• Enrique Gil as Sergio 'Gio' Martinez
• Liza Soberano as Calixta 'Cali' Ferrer

Cali dreams of becoming a social media influencer and owns a blog-on-the-rise called The Bakit List. When an exchange with a user, @DahilListBoy goes viral she decides to meet him, and she later realises that it is her ex-boyfriend, Gio who wants to get her back.
Year: 2017

English Only, Please

• Derek Ramsay as Julian Parker
• Jennylyn Mercado as Tere Madlansacay

Julian Parker comes to Manila from New York with one goal: to perfectly dicate a Filipino translation of his angry letter to his half-Pinay ex-girlfriend Megan with the help of the perky Filipino-English tutor he hired online. Tere Madlansacay is a top-notch Filipino-English tutor. She is strict and feisty and takes pride in teaching English and/or Filipino to more than 142 Americans, Fil-Ams, Koreans since 2006. Taking the perfect light romantic-comedic tone of popular Asian movies, with feisty leading ladies who are funny, charming and lovable English Only, Please is a simple love story about how love knows no bounds.
Year: 2014

Starting Over Again

• Piolo Pascual as Marco Antonio Villanueva III
• Toni Gonzaga as Genina 'Ginny' Gonzales
• Iza Calzado as Patricia 'Patty' de Guia

Ten years ago, Ginny, an Architecture student, and Marco, a History professor, began a one-of-a-kind and unpredictable love story. In the five years that they were together, they brought out the best in each other, which included Marco’s unrealized dream of becoming a chef. Together, they worked towards their dream of opening up a restaurant, but when Ginny realized her own pursuits were different from his, she rejected his wedding proposal and left the country for a Masters degree in Architecture. At present, Ginny co-owns a one-stop Architecture and Interior Design firm specializing in Restoration. She receives an email from Marco, which was written and sent after their break-up, meant to be read four years later. It makes her feel even more regretful of leaving the love of her life. When their firm receives an offer to restore an old house into a restaurant, she is ecstatic to learn that Marco will be co-owning the restaurant. She takes this as a sign that this will be their second chance they need, but finds out that Marco wants the restaurant ready for his wedding proposal to his US-based girlfriend, Patty De Guia. This doesn’t stop Ginny from accepting the project in the hopes of winning back Marco, now very different from the man he used to be. When he learns her motives, he plays along to push her regrets and show that he is much better now. But their actions take a toll on them when they talk about the past, feelings start to get involved, and Patty begins to get suspicions about the two. Can mistakes and wrong decisions be undone to give way to a second chance? Will Ginny get her happy ending with Marco, or is she four years too later?
Year: 2014

Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank

• Eugene Domingo as Herself / Mila
• JM De Guzman as Bingbong
• Kean Cipriano as Rainier
• Cai Cortez as Jocelyn

Ang Babae sa Septic Tank chronicles a day in the life of three ambitious, passionate but misguided filmmakers as they set out to do a quick pre-prod at Starbucks, a courtesy call to their lead actress, Eugene Domingo, and an ocular inspection of their film’s major location, the Payatas dumpsite. Director Rainier, Producer Bingbong and Production Assistant Jocelyn are well-to-do, well-educated film school graduates who are dead set on making an Oscar worthy film. They believe they have a winning script, the energy and the drive to make their dreams come true. Like most filmmakers they know, they have devised a screenplay that will show the real essence of our culture: poverty. In the course of one day, they brainstorm and exhaust all possible treatment of their project: the story of Mila, a mother from the slums, who out of desperation to survive, has sold her child to a pedophile. As they discuss the possible executions of the story, the movie-within-a-movie gets reborn in Jocelyn’s imagination several times. As a gritty no frills neo-realist film, as a glossy musical, as as over-the-top melodrama and as a docu drama using non-actors. For their last task of the day, they visit the dumpsite for the first time. As filmmakers gunning authenticity, they get excited with the “beauty” of the squalor around them. Soon enough, they are faced with reality as they come face to face with the real effects of their chosen subject. Babae sa Septic Tank is a comedy about misguided ambitions, the art of making art and the romanticization of poverty.

(August 6, 2011)

Cinemalaya days pa lang forte ko na talaga panoorin tong Septic Tank kaya lang wala time. Hahaha kaya hinintay nalang namin itey sa theatres. Kaya nung nagka chance grab kagad. After birthday ko na inabot gang umaga gumising akez ng maaga din para lang matuloy so ayun Pat and I watched it pero sa SM Baliwag tutal dun naman kami na madalas manood. So what's new dba? So anyway ayun, masasabi ko lang sa simula super boring nung movie halos makatulog na nga kami pero nung medyo gitna na bongga na tawa. Super funny talaga ni Eugene Domingo bet na bet ko ang humour niya. Iba level ng energy. Ito namang si Kean naku wit ko talaga feel. Si papa JM naman ang bongga super lovey ko na siya lalo na pag nag smile, kaya lang pinagkaitan ata ng height lolo mo. Pero bet ko pa din siya no matter what. Hahahaha! Anyways hindi ako makapag comment ng maayos first time ko kasi manood ng indie. Hindi ko tuloy alam eexpect ko pero overall okay naman siya pero sana lang talaga hindi ganun ung simula ang boring or siguro puyat at kulang lang talaga ako sa tulog. Ask ko nalang iba nakapanood. Haha. Thanks!
Love,
- D.✯

My Amnesia Girl

When Apollo finds himself surrounded by friends who are beginning to settle down, he is faced with the possibility of finding his true love. It all boils down to one name: Irene. It must be fate then, when he once again sees Irene, his ex-girlfriend from three years ago with whom he had the best memories with. Apollo and Irene were a perfect couple, and were engaged to be married. It all ended at the altar when Apollo had a bout of cold feet and left Irene alone in the aisle. Now, Irene pretends to have no recollection of Apollo, having acquired “amnesia” shortly after their separation. Apollo sees this as the perfect opportunity to pursue Irene again, and be able to undo all the mistakes he made in the past, by offering Irene the best memories she could ever have. True love is difficult to resist, they learn. Just when they find themselves ready to commit to each other, the pains from the past catch up with them, challenging them to finally own up to the mistakes made and lies said, and eventually realize what it is to forgive and forget.

(December 4, 2010)