First Philippine Film Catalogue

It is an honor to be a part of this project.

This is a landmark project of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) since this is the first time data on Filipino films (2007 and 2008) are published in a single publication. Included in this catalogue are one hundred twenty-four film titles : 102 mainstream and independent feature films, 4 short films and 18 projects in development or in progress.

This PHILIPPINE FILM CATALOGUE is an important step in FDCP’s objective to reach an international audience for Filipino films. The Catalogue will be distributed to international film festivals, film markets, conventions and trade missions. It was first introduced in the recently concluded 2009 Hong Kong Filmart where the FDCP reached out to worldwide buyers and distributors and festival directors and programmers.

Recent Filipino films have been called “some of the most exciting in Southeast Asia.” This catalogue demonstrates why this is so and why the diversity and dynamism of Philippine cinema deserve to be at the forefront of world cinema.

Frederick Agustin did the design concept and layout.

PADYAK : An Indie Film To Watch

PADYAK, a Breaking The Box production of a Palanca award-winning ScreenplayIn cooperation with the National Comission for Culture and the Arts A film by Aloy Adlawan opens March 4, 2009 at the Robinson's Galleria Indiesine.

Here is the synopsis: Noel inherits a pedicab vehicle after the sudden death of his father, a pedicab driver. Unable to pursue his dream of going to college, Noel takes up the job his father left. Everything and everyday then become a cycle of routine with the people he knows and the perfect strangers he takes into his vehicle to pedal them to their destinations.

In the middle of Noel’s story come three other vignettes that are totally unrelated to him. Or so it seems. A maid has an affair with her employer’s lover and is caught. A child wants to throw his father a birthday bash. A law graduate literally encounters another side of himself tempting him to do something.

A series of tragedy takes Noel’s life into its own spin. A beautiful woman he befriends is found dead, his best friend Baste is killed, there’s the tragedy of the woman he loves, Nadia, falling into the claws of prostitution, and lastly, his own mother succumbing into a diabetic coma. Noel is left questioning his own existence… Will the world be a different place without a pedicab driver like him? Does his life really matter?

(Watch the full Trailer on Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muXN4twOOMQ