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Continue reading →: Oktopus: Of stories and storytelling
By Heinrich Domingo Women at the eclipse of their lives talk about their remaining years. The recent death of their friend made them realize that dying is inevitable. With them in the conversation is a wise kid who helps them look back at their past, plan their future, and enjoy…
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Continue reading →: Chicboy: Hoping for more
By Heinrich Domingo With no memory of last night’s events, a closeted gay woke up beside a naked woman in an unknown apartment. He went berserk after realizing that he slept with a female. He could not stomach the thought of sleeping with the opposite gender. No one else knows…
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Continue reading →: Ned’s Project: Gender Advocacy 101By Heinrich Domingo Watching films with new and unpopular themes can sometimes be intimidating. Aside from unfamiliar rhetoric, the filmmakers would often preach us on what they think we must believe in. Ned’s Project proved that films can introduce a new world without the fear of coming too overwhelming. It…
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Continue reading →: 1st Sem: Comedy in family drama
By Heinrich Domingo We tend not to like things that remind us of our embarrassing pasts. Either we cringe remembering them or we simply outgrow them. 1st Sem takes no shame in telling an unpretentious story from a too simple conflict. It looks back into one of the awkward phases…
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Continue reading →: Buhay Habangbuhay (Life Afterlife): Life through death
By Heinrich Domingo While Philippine films have this unfounded addiction on weddings (see Straight to the Heart), we limit the discussion of death on horror stories. Buhay Habangbuhay offered an alternative depiction of death and the afterlife and suggested that they are capable of broadening the discussion of love, relationship,…
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