Showing posts with label Pinoy Indie Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pinoy Indie Film. Show all posts

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Mga Pinakamahabang One Night Stand


Mga Pinakamahabang One night Stand is a collection of four shorts films exploring themes of fidelity, relationships and true love in a world filled with complex societal norms permeating personal spaces.

Showboyz



Starring: Krystoffer King, Toffee Calma, Archie De Calma and Topher Barretto



Idealistic and talented young provincial boy Tope goes to Manila to search for a long lost childhood friend ostracized by his community for being queer. He starts at the park where he suspects his friend Joaquin frequently visits. He finds out that the park, indeed, is frequented by gays who are looking for paid boys for sex. When a few rowdy vagrants beat him, he is rescued by a transvestite named Jeminai. They instantly become friends as Jeminai hires Tope to be his gay bar caretaker.

How will innocent and impressionable Tope live in the sleazy bar where the boys are expected to lie and bare their bodies for a fee? When Tope meets the bar’s star dancer, Krys, who can no longer have an erection, and help him win in a macho dancing contest. Tope sees a different future for the bar. Before everybody knows it, Tope has been changing everyone, turning them from sleazy to artsy, and giving them hope that perhaps their club can still find salvation. But what if the big project leads to a love triangle between Jeminai, Krys and Tope? Can they still work together to make their dreams come true? Showboyz is both hilarious and poignant, and totally sexy.

Quicktrip


Starring: Topher Barreto and Andrew Morgan

In first world countries, children are encouraged to become financially stable upon reaching adulthood. However, in the Philippines, they owe their lives to their parents and are indebted to this fate. Often, the eldest bears the burden of being the bread winner of the family. This is the predicament of the breadwinners like Chris, the young lead in the film “Quickie” who also happens to be gay.

Boylets


Starring: Charles Delgado, Joef Javier, Francis Sienes, Rusty Adonis and Siegerid
Krys is a middle class high school student and his best friend Joef who has been abandoned by his only living parent is turning eighteen and plans to leave the next day to trace his father’s roots. As Krys attempts to make Joef change his mind, we get a glimpse of the lives of his friends, some out of school youth in the nearby slums who pass the day stealing copper wires, scavenging for iron scraps and servicing gays for sex. As Krys attempts to control his friend’s life’s peripheral characters, we see middle class person trying to be the poor people’s hero. But our young protagonist finds out that life, at least, for people living in poverty, is not all that bad. Will Krys be able to stop Joef from leaving?