My Valentine Girls

• Richard Gutierrez as Arvin / Oslec / Zach / Aidan
• Jillian Ward as Mayi / Ishy / Lily / Daughter
• Rhian Ramos as Aia
• Solenn Heussaff as Andie
• Lovi Poe as Ruby
• Eugene Domingo as Ivy

Arvin is a novelist and has a deadline to beat for his next book- a trilogy of love stories. Here’s his problem: he is suffering from writer’s block. Enter her young sister, Mayi, who is desperate to find a girlfriend for her Kuya Arvin. Arvin has been loveless for quite a time and Mayi claims Arvin’s writer’s block is exactly because he has zero lovelife. Mayi starts setting Arvin up to meet girls who can be his potential girlfriends. Along the way, Arvin finally finds his stories…

SOULMATES. Oslec works as a taxi driver, the breadwinner of his family- a mother and a younger sister. Aia is high-end fashion stylist living on her own. The two are bound by fate one day after Aia’s car crashes into Oslec’s cab inside Aia’s subdivision. Surviving the crash without a scratch, Aia returns home and finds Oslec at the scene of the accident, lost and confused. Oslec confronts her and follows after Aia to her house only for Aia to realize that Oslec is now a ghost unable to go home. Oslec haunts Aia and begs her to get him home so he can find out how his family is coping with his death. Aia feels burdened and helps out the ghost. But along the way, they discover a deepening friendship and a blooming romance between two… soulmates.

BBF. Zach, a young lawyer, is in love with his best friend Andie, a marine biologist. He makes plans to propose to her on Valentine’s Day. During the date, Andie cuts off Zach’s proposal and tells him she does not want to explore anything beyond their friendship. Relationships ruin friendships, Andie believes. Andie instead introduces Zach to her other best friend, Ruby, who just got dumped by her fiancé on the same Valentine’s Day. Zach and Ruby hit it off and slowly fall for each other in the days that follow. When Andie realizes that Zach and Ruby have become a couple, she realizes that she is slowly losing Zach just the same. What happens next is a love triangle romantic entanglement that will test the boundaries of friendship and love…

GUNAW. An apocalyptic tale with ace comedienne Ivy, the last woman standing. Ivy convince Aidan that they have a mission to procreate because they are the only human left after a worldwide disaster. Will Aidan give in to Ivy for the sake of humanity?

Year: 2011

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.✯

Who's That Girl

• Anne Curtis as Elizabeth Pedroza
• Luis Manzano as John Eduque

When the school wallflower gets a pep talk from the most popular campus heartthrob at her lowest moment, this becomes a life-changing moment for her. Elizabeth transforms into a beautiful, intelligent and successful career woman, who has often fantasized about how her dream man John Eduque had turned out to be. Until one day, she reads his name in the obituary. She is shattered with grief over a man she was not even romantically involved with. She goes to the wake in hysterics causing eyebrows to raise, especially the deceased’s widow. The John Eduque that passed away is actually the senior John Eduque, John’s father. Realizing her fumble, she hurriedly leaves, unaware of the damage she has caused to John’s family who suspects she is the unknown mistress. Mrs. Eduque succumbs to depression therefore John takes it upon himself to avenge his mother’s misery and hunts for the mystery woman. But instead of seeking revenge on her, John starts to fall for her the more he gets to know her. How will John’s mother react to this blossoming relationship? Will blood always be thicker than water? Or will love triumph in the end?

To watch the full trailer. (click here)

(March 18, 2011)