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QCinema celebrates the city’s 80th founding with amass of Filipino Filmmakers and a foray of talents in this year’s QCShorts Competition. So far so good, the short films offer a view on the mundane to the minute. In this brief article, we’ve gathered the synopsis for you along with some stills from the shorts.

Let us know which ones you’re excited to see on the screens:

  JUDY FREE

  Set in the early 2000s, ‘Judy Free’ tells the story of Judy, a young girl whose reality is intruded when her father, an Overseas Filipino Worker, suddenly comes home as an animated doodle figure after years of being away.

            Judy lives in a small apartment with her mother Eden, her older brother Tonton, and her grandma Sene. Her father has left home ever since Judy can remember. Now that he came back, Judy has to spend one month with her father, a month filled with imported chocolates and other lavish items from abroad. Soon, she realizes that her plan to get close to him is tested when a commotion happens in the household. A photograph showing another child overseas. An impending feeling of their family’s dissolution.

Starring Miel Espinosa, Meryll Soriano, Angelita Loresco, Adrian Castanares, Kent Zamora Written and Directed by: Jean Cheryl Tagyamon Producers: Nonilon Abao, JP Habac Creative Producer: Glenn Barit Associate Producer: Tiara Orig Director of Photography: Steven Paul Evangelio Production Designer: Alvin Francisco Production Manager: Patricia Pamintuan Editor: Jean Cheryl Tagyamon, Glenn Barit Music: Glenn Barit

  TOKWIFI

As Limmayug carries firewood back to his home village, something falls from the sky: a 1950s television, with a hysterical showbiz star trapped inside it. She is Laura Blancaflor. The frightened man saves the television — nay, saves Laura — from the flames of the impact.

Worlds apart in their language and methods, the two try their best to engage each other. But for Limmayug, a citizen of an off-the-grid mountain town, Laura’s TV talk seems too contrived and, alas, during commercial breaks, uncontrollably tactless as well.

  Directed by Carla Pulido Ocampo Produced by Lester Valle

Stars Kurt Lumbag Alalag and Adrienne Vergara

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Years after mining operations began, a once rugged and undisturbed town changed drastically. Koi, a fresh graduate in his early 20s, returns home with a left ear infection after more than two years of being away. Koi accompanies his mother Tonet in waiting for the former’s father, both of them clueless as to whether he could make it home alive after an accident in the extraction tunnel.

Starring Kael Vilar, Irish Yes Layas and Carla Zarcal

Writer, Director: Joanne Cesario

Producer: Alyssa Suico

Line Producer: Kweng Aguirre

Production Manager: Pat Pamintuan

1st Assistant Director: Mervine Aquino

2nd Assistant Director: Karen Lustañas

Director of Photography: Jippy Pascua

2nd Camera: Jhayle Meer

Production Designer: Alvin Francisco

Editors: Celina Donato, Joanne Cesario

Sound Designer: Mikko Quizon

Music: Owel Alvero, Dosage

Colorist: Carla Manalo

  EXCUSE ME, MISS, MISS MISS

A salesgirl unearths the ultimate secret to regularization.

Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss is Sonny Calvento’s first short feature film.

Starring Phyllis Grande, Angelina Kanapi, Bob Jbeili

Director: Sonny Calvento

Screenplay: Arden Rod Condez

Producer: Sheron Dayoc

Director of Photography: Rommel Sales

Assistant Directors: Tin Velasco, Ryanne Murcia

Production Designer: Harley Alcasid

Editor: Carlo Francisco Manatad

Sound: Mikko Quizon, Daryl Libongco

Colorist: Timmy Torres

Music: Len Calvo

  ISANG DAA’T ISANG MARIPOSA

101-year old pious and pragmatic Lola Perla uses her 100,000-peso government reward for centenaries for one last chance at love.

Director & Screenwriter: Norvin De los Santos Producers: Petersen Vargas Jade Castro Alex Poblete Director of Photography: Dino Placino Production Designer: James Rosendal Editors: Chuck Durana, Nicolai Navarro Music: Jarrett Cross Pinto

  Screening Dates and Venue:

Monday October 14 *GALA Premiere, Gateway Cinema 2 – 6:45PM

Tuesday, October 15 UPFI Cine Adarna, 7:00PM

Wednesday, October 16 Gateway Cinema 7 – 1:00PM

Thursday, October 17 Robinsons Galleria, Cinema 3 – 4:00PM

Saturday, October 19 TriNoma, Cinema 4 – 1:00PM Cinema 76 Anonas – 7:00PM

Sunday, October 20 Cinema Centenario – 7:00PM

Tuesday, October 22 Cinema 76 Anonas – 7:00PM Cinema Centenario – 9:00PM

  Watch the trailer below:

  Special thanks to Sir Ed Lejano, Kelly Austria, Krystal Belino, and April Macaraeg for the promotional materials. Let us support Filipino Film in its Centennial Year.

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