Probably the most interesting prospect of Filipino cinema, Mikhail Red, once more, presents his social comments through a genre packaging, in a crime thriller taking place in Manila, with the war on drugs of President Duterte providing the base.
“Neomanila” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
In this setting, we meet the film’s main hero, Toto, an orphan who sleeps on the streets and is trying to find a man that will allow his brother, Kiko, to be released from prison, or at least to find money to make his bail. Toto has a girlfriend, but her brother, Dugo, occasionally gives him a hard time. When tragedy hits him even harder, Toto does not find any reason not to join a duo of killers for hire working for a man named Sarge, Irma and Raul, with the former eventually taking him to live in her house.
Mikhail...
“Neomanila” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
In this setting, we meet the film’s main hero, Toto, an orphan who sleeps on the streets and is trying to find a man that will allow his brother, Kiko, to be released from prison, or at least to find money to make his bail. Toto has a girlfriend, but her brother, Dugo, occasionally gives him a hard time. When tragedy hits him even harder, Toto does not find any reason not to join a duo of killers for hire working for a man named Sarge, Irma and Raul, with the former eventually taking him to live in her house.
Mikhail...
- 4/22/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Probably the most interesting prospect of Filipino cinema, Mikhail Red, once more, presents his social comments through a genre packaging, in a crime thriller taking place in Manila, with the war on drugs of President Duterte providing the base.
Neomanila is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
In this setting, we meet the film’s main hero, Toto, an orphan who sleeps on the streets and is trying to find a man that will allow his brother, Kiko, to be released from prison, or at least to find money to make his bail. Toto has a girlfriend, but her brother, Dugo, occasionally gives him a hard time. When tragedy hits him even harder, Toto does not find any reason not to join a duo of killers for hire working for a man named Sarge, Irma and Raul, with the former eventually taking him to live in her house.
Neomanila is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
In this setting, we meet the film’s main hero, Toto, an orphan who sleeps on the streets and is trying to find a man that will allow his brother, Kiko, to be released from prison, or at least to find money to make his bail. Toto has a girlfriend, but her brother, Dugo, occasionally gives him a hard time. When tragedy hits him even harder, Toto does not find any reason not to join a duo of killers for hire working for a man named Sarge, Irma and Raul, with the former eventually taking him to live in her house.
- 7/7/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Searching,” from director Aneesh Chaganty and starring John Cho and Debra Messing, won the audience award for North American narrative film at the 34th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The thriller will open nationally in August in theaters through Screen Gems.
The documentary “Minding the Gap,” directed by Bing Liu, won the audience award for documentary feature, and also was given the special jury prize for best director.
The festival gives out awards in both North American and international categories. For international narrative feature divisions, “In the Life of Music,” directed by Caylee So and Visal Sok, was a double winner, with both the audience award and special jury prize.
The international documentary-feature audience award was given to “Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story,” directed by Frank W. Chen.
Other winners: “Call Her Ganda,” directed by Pj Raval, grand jury prize for North American docu feature; “Anote’s Ark” from director Matthieu Rytz,...
The documentary “Minding the Gap,” directed by Bing Liu, won the audience award for documentary feature, and also was given the special jury prize for best director.
The festival gives out awards in both North American and international categories. For international narrative feature divisions, “In the Life of Music,” directed by Caylee So and Visal Sok, was a double winner, with both the audience award and special jury prize.
The international documentary-feature audience award was given to “Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story,” directed by Frank W. Chen.
Other winners: “Call Her Ganda,” directed by Pj Raval, grand jury prize for North American docu feature; “Anote’s Ark” from director Matthieu Rytz,...
- 5/19/2018
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
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