#competition2018

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Ang Wa' Damhang Importansya Sa Teleserye

Rodiell Veloso (Cagayan de Oro)

In the early 2000s, Joe is a screenwriter for GM8's biggest soap opera “Sa Pagtila Ng Ulan”. He is at odds with the showrunners when they want a cliché for an ending whereas he wants to make something else. A battle of external and internal conflicts arise as Joe tries to deal with the pressures of catering to the general audience's taste and his own creative fulfillment.

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Sa Pagsalop Sa Adlaw

Angelo Geverola Abella (Cebu)

A young man wanders around the city to go back to his memories — and pays a visit to his most beloved person.

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Breakdown

Neil Gabriel Arradaza Nanta (Cebu)

Projection on urban dysfunction.

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Walay Nidanguynguy

Glorypearl Dy (Davao)

Women who are forced to leave their original spaces, dealing with various challenges depicted in visual and musical score. When familiar spaces become strangers, these women transform into the departed. Tears may water their story to live on, but, as in many stories of most displaced, they were not identified and so no one came to weep.

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Propesiya

Alyssa Ashley Manugas (Cebu)

What if doomsday is one of us? Will she continue what she is destined to do or give us another chance? How will she decide? Do our actions on treating Mother Earth affect her decision? This is a story of a cast away, how most of the people treat her, and how the current events in our world intertwine with her experiences.

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The Last Question

Jeremy Damazo (Cebu)

Greg finds himself trapped and tortured in an unknown location, and all he wants to know is why?

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DISKRO

Dan Banate (Cebu)

Kido, an art student living a mundane college life, who is circumstantially introduced to a new emerging drug that psychedelically affects him to be more creative and ecstatic but at the expense of having a dysfunctional sense of time.

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Wala'y Humayan sa Tanglad

Neil Briones (Cebu)

A documentary crew go out into Philippine agricultural heartland to tail the lives made rich by miracle rice—a prized strain of the grain with almost mythic qualities