KABISERA Dir. Borgy TORRE
Action. One man's transformation from a naive, innocent man to a ruthless father, friend and eventually, a drug dealer. Set in Bacolod. Negros.
SITIO Dir. Mes DE GUZMAN
Psychological Drama. A family from the city returns to the province in search of a simpler life, they find more problems and setbacks instead.
Will be shot in Nueva Vizcaya.
BLU BUSTAMANTE Dir. Miko Livelo
Family Drama Comedy. An OFW is suddenly jobless in Japan. A friend introduces him to a Sentai director who convinces him to be a double for Blue Force, a super hero character in an upcoming Japanese super hero show.
ANG ALAMAT NG CHINA DOLL Dir. Adolf ALIX Jr. from a screenplay by Lav Diaz.
Drama. Helen lives with her grandmother in an idyllic island down south, at 25, she’s about to graduate from high school and start a new life. Things take a drastic turn when a journalist publishes an article about "China Doll."
WOMAN OF THE RUINS Dir. Keith SICAT
Mystery Drama. On a storm-ravaged island that has seen its share of tragedy, a person who has been assumed dead reappears and ignites a frenzy of reactions, ranging from ecstatic religious fervor to fear.
ANGUSTIA Dir. Kristian CORDERO
Period- Regional. Set in 19th Century Bicolandia, a Spanish friar falls for a woman of indigenous origins. Until paranoia drives the Spanish friar to murder.
ANG PAGBABALAT NG AHAS Dir. Timmy HARN
Genre film/comedy. A lower middle-class family moves in to an upper middle-class village where a mad scientist is keeping a snake-man.
ISLANDS Dir. Whammy ALCAZAREN
Experimental/Science Fiction. A spacecraft lands through the geographies of the fictional film, ISLANDS and the reality in which it is being filmed as a movie.
BUKAS NA LANG SAPAGKAT GABI NA
Dir. Jet LEYCO
A four-part narrative of three related occurrences caused by tragic accident of a Filipino-Spanish priest.
ISKALAWAGS Dir. Keith DELIGERO
Comedy. An aching tale of friendship, youth, and a journey towards self-discovery in this small-town coming of age story. Intoy, takes us back to show us how those teenage days felt like. To be shot in Camotes Island, Cebu.
THE SUFFOCATING ETERNITY OF AN IMAGINED PURGATORY (tentative title) Dir. Joseph LABAN
Horror. Kids go missing in an Island in Marinduque, believed to be “kidnapped” by the spirits of the sea.
A PHILIPPINO STORY Dir. Benjamin GARCIA
Drama. A cautionary tale about the dangers of male prostitution
SHIFT Dir. Siege LEDESMA
Love Story/Drama. When an idealistic, tomboyish, call center slacker is mentored by a pragmatic, gay senior agent, an unconventional relationship blossoms that would challenge their most personal convictions
BENDOR Dir. Ralston JOVER
Drama. 40 days before the annual Good Friday procession of the miraculous 400-year-old Black Nazarene statue at the Quiapo church in Manila, an early morning mass is disrupted when a candle vendor finds a blood-soaked box with a dead fetus inside.
RIDDLES OF MY HOMECOMING Dir. Arnel Mardoquio
Drama. The Lumads and Moros of Mindanao have a traditional belief that when a person dies his soul goes back to his homeland.
Congratulations to the finalists! Thanks to all the filmmakers who submitted entries this year. The 2013 Cinema One Originals Festival will be in November this year.
