“Handumanan” (Remembrance) is a story of three people who seem to have lost hope of their worlds until their fateful encounter in a resort in Negros Oriental. Solita Locsin/Soledad Miranda or Sol, 36, is a romance novelist who shuns her publisher’s demand for her to write erotic pocketbooks. In addition, she is suffering from choriocarcinoma, a terminal illness, so she decides to quit her job and takes that long-delayed journey back home in a place near the more popular university town of Dumaguete. Alejandro Tan or Lean, 21, wants to be a writer but he is trapped in his job at the Commission on Audit after finishing accountancy upon the wish of his mother. He also wants to escape from a world which has been harsh to his family. Carlos Silva, 23, a Brazilian print ad model, is searching for his roots and his blog is his main connection to the other side of the world. After Sol finds out about blogging from her niece, she makes use of this new tool to continue writing. This sets up a connection with Carlos who finds her blog in the Internet and wants to meet her. On the other hand, Lean is assigned to audit in Dumaguete but his escapist attitude leads him to Sol, whose romance novels play a significant role in his life.
Red Room Productions' first full-length feature "HANDUMANAN" (Remembrance), starring Asian TV Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awardee Ms. Chin Chin Gutierrez, Gawad Urian Best Actor awardee Jason Abalos, and introducing Brazilian-Japanese model and Cosmopolitan Bachelor Akihiro Sato, will compete for the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) award at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Shot in Negros Oriental, Zambales, Cavite, and some parts of Metro Manila, it also stars Dido dela Paz, Gina Lumauig, Lexter Tarriela, and Buglasan Festival Queen Nadie May Orillana, among others. The film is made possible through a P500,000 grant by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
Production by: NCCA and Red Room Productions
In cooperation with the Katorse Writers Group (from Ricky Lee’s 14th scriptwriting workshop), Pixel Art Media Production Co., On Cam Productions and the University of Makati Film Society
