FEATURE FILM PROJECTS
CALL ME PAPI
Men are from boys.
Written and Directed by: Alvin Yapan
Produced by: Shandii Bacolod and Jane Gonzales
English Title: Call Me Papi
Country of Origin: Philippines
Language: Filipino with English Subtitles
Running Time: 81 minutes
Genre: Comedy Buddy Movie
Film Type: Feature/Narrative
Lead Actors: Enzo Pineda, Albie Casiño, Lharby Policarpio, Royce Cabrera, and Aaron Concepcion
After getting busted for having an affair with a married woman, Sonny, a gym instructor, crashes in with his friend Lito along with three other working guys: Ben, Mario, and Roy. They all share an apartment in Manila to make ends meet as Mario and Lito both work as call center agents, Ben as a restaurant waiter, and Roy as a bartender. Sonny’s supposed brief stay will reveal long-kept secrets among the roommates and will test their friendship. Will their responsibilities as men outweigh the joy they get from their relationships with each other and the women in their lives?
ORO
Dugo ang kintab ng ginto.
Blood is the sheen of gold.
Written and Directed by: Alvin Yapan
Produced by: Shandii Bacolod
English Title: Gold
Country of Origin: Philippines
Language: Filipino with English Subtitles
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Genre: Crime Drama
Film Type: Feature/Narrative
Lead Actors: Irma Adlawan, Joem Bascon, and Mercedes Cabral
While the film was inspired by true events, Oro depicts the transition of one community’s economic and political systems. Economically, from the people’s communal ownership of the natural resources, it turned into capitalism where the people owned only their labor. Politically, from a benevolent feudalistic leadership of Kapitana it turned into a cruel fascist regime of the bigger politicians. While the real story was “killed” in media, the film was censored too when it was pulled out of the theaters. Guns and goons have many faces but the GOLD in Oro prevails. Censorship haunts all of us and our society yet this masterpiece continues to live on to immortalize the plea of the murdered four small-scale miners for justice. MMFF 2016 Best Actress Irma Adlawan with the MMFF 2016 Best Ensemble Cast were truly deserving of the laurels. Writer and Director Alvin Yapan and Executive Producer Shandii Bacolod were excellent too as this creation heals a community that has been deprived of fairness and equal opportunities.
CULION
Dahil nakahahawa ang pag-ibig.
Because love is contagious.
Directed by: Alvin Yapan
Written by: Ricky Lee
Produced by: iOptions Ventures
English Title: Culion
Country of Origin: Philippines
Language: Filipino with English Subtitles
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Genre: Historical Drama
Film Type: Feature/Narrative
Lead Actors: Iza Calzado, Meryll Soriano, and Jasmine Curtis-Smith
In the southern part of the Philippines under the American occupation, the island of Culion was transformed into a leprosarium and soon became the biggest leper colony in the world. Segregated from the rest of the country that is determined to forget them, it became an exile for people like Anna, Doris, Ditas, and many others infected with leprosy. By 1937, still with no cure in sight, Culion eventually became a purgatory for the hopeless and the abandoned within a country also struggling with its own independence. However, after Anna’s unexpected pregnancy, Doris’ innocent infatuation with a foreigner, and the visit of a loved one from Ditas’ past, the three women find new reasons to endure. Amidst the stigma of their illnesses and the brewing of another occupation outside their gates, the three women have to reconcile their newfound hope with the grim inevitability of their future.
AN KUBO SA KAWAYANAN
Even the smallest of things has a story to tell.
Written, Co-produced, and Directed by: Alvin Yapan
Produced by: VYAC Productions
English Title: The House by the Bamboo Grove
Country of Origin: Philippines
Language: Bikol with English Subtitles
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Film Type: Narrative/Feature
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Lead Actor: Mercedes Cabral
Michelle leads a simple and unhurried life in her bamboo house, only going out to town once a week to charge her phone or watch a movie. In a place where everyone dreams of being somewhere else, Michelle finds herself inseparable from her home to the point of obsession. A love letter to the small things that make up life in Barangay Salvacion in Baao, the film offers glimpses of the multitude of stories around those who struggle to tell their own. It also offers a highly unusual approach towards ecology, as the sentient depiction of the bamboo house, with all its creaks and cracks, acts as a window that perceives the vitality of the exterior world.
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