You're My Boss

• Coco Martin as Pong
• Toni Gonzaga as Georgina

Pong is an executive assistant in an airline company where Georgina Lorenzana works as an assistant vice president for marketing affairs. Georgina is an extremely driven, smart, but bossy alpha female who will do everything to close a very important deal with foreign investors. One is a Japanese client named Mr. Najimoto. Their big boss, Chief Commercial Officer Albert, who is also the president, assigns this deal to Georgina and asks Pong to assist her while he is away for a sabbatical. During their meeting for this deal, Mr. Najimoto and his partner reveal that they wouldn't negotiate with anyone in the airline company and substitutes such as Georgina except for the president and Chief Commercial Officer. Left with no other choice, Georgina declares that Pong is the president Chief Commercial Officer out of panic. From that moment on, the two of them are tied into a pretense.
Year: 2015

That Thing Called Tadhana

• Angelica Panganiban as Mace Castillo
• JM de Guzman as Anthony Lagdameo

A woman, Mace Castillo who was desperately struggling in unloading her excess baggage in an airport in Italy, crying over on how she can get an exact load limit with her baggage until a man came up, Anthony who comes to her aid and offered a space in his luggage until they both had finally checked out and went back to their home country. At the Philippine Airport, the two decided not to take the next cab ride and instead go somewhere. Both of them ended up singing in a karaoke bar where they sang together the song Where do Broken Hearts Go and after a few drinks, Mace told Anthony that she wanted to go to Baguio City. On their way, Mace woke up surprised that she can't believe herself asking Anthony to go with him and in Baguio to begin with. In the middle of the travel, they stopped over a terminal station and Anthony asked Mace to go down the bus and join him to eat some snacks. Anthony bought hotdogs and sodas, where Mace assumingly squeezed ketchup on Anthony's food and apologized for doing it, because it was something that her ex-boyfriend likes her to do. Anthony mentioned several different things and Mace had always something in it that reminds her of her ex. Mace remembered a friend whose deal was to pay another friend for every time she mentions her ex. For which, both decided to go for 100 pesos every time Mace mentions her Ex. Then as they reached their destination, they went to an Art Exhibit. While Anthony is staring at a painting, Mace discovers that Anthony has the passion for Arts, specifically in painting. They went out to eat lunch and in the conversation, Mace reveals that she also had a thing for writing during her college years, which was titled "The Arrow with a Heart Pierced Through Him".
Year: 2015

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)