Larry Castillo

A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded."

Ma’Rosa a quatre enfants. Elle tient une petite épicerie dans un quartier pauvre de Manille où tout le monde la connaît et l’apprécie. Pour joindre les deux bouts, elle et son mari Nestor y revendent illégalement des narcotiques. Un jour ils sont arrêtés. Face à des policiers corrompus, les enfants de Rosa feront tout pour racheter la liberté de leurs parents.

A guy meets the girl of his dreams on a Saturday night, only to find out that she is getting married the next day. He finds a way to change their destiny.

A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.

The film follows two competing television news teams as they chase a variety of leads, gradually zeroing in on an impending and possibly apocalyptic storm, and a middle-aged teacher who may or may not be possessed by a demon. Writer and actress Raquel Villavicencio plays the ruthless head of the top-rated network, coming off as a Tagalog variation on Faye Dunaway's fabled character in Network. Her team has eschewed covering politics in favour of triedand- true tabloid fodder: demonic possession.

Life turns riveting for Nanong when the tabloid-format reality TV show, AKIN ANG KORONA chances upon his curious life in a sleepy seaside town in Catanauan Quezon. Nanong agrees to film his daily life drying herring, with a deal that they would help find his lost father. Nanong’s quest for a missing parent will become a search of truth, of wonder, of the self-wrapped in the direction framed for and by the TV program.