Neil Daza

Neil Daza

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Neil Daza

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Rewind
Cinematography
Mary loves John for as long as she can remember. But after years of marriage, John's priorities shift, leading to a strained relationship with Mary, which causes a tragic accident that takes away Mary's life. Until one day, John gets an extraordinary proposition - to rewind time and save the life of the woman he loves.
In His Mother's Eyes
Director of Photography
"In His Mother's Eyes" follows the story of Tim, a special child who was left in the care of his uncle Bibs by his working mother Lucy for several years. When Lucy returns, she attempts to regain the affection of her son and brother. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as she thought. Despite her best efforts to make up for her absence, her attempts fail and only make things worse.
About Us But Not About Us
Director of Photography
The film tells the story of people wrestling with the truth, where a simple conversation turns into a deadly game that can ruin lives and shatter dreams.
Blue Room
Director of Photography
A progressive rock band composed of privileged teenagers get arrested for drug possession, and are brought into the “Blue Room” where they must make the difficult choice between freedom or standing up for what they believe in.
The Myth of Manila
Cinematography
Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the danger, Sandra, a single middle-aged reporter living there, continues to search for stories, even after waking up with symptoms one day. As a public service, she turns the camera on herself for the first time in her career, documenting her condition and recording the sights and sounds of the afflicted city on her way to the hospital. Unfortunately, every place she reaches has a long queue. With her remaining strength, she brings herself to Quiapo Church, the site frequented by many pilgrims in dire situations.
Four Sisters Before the Wedding
Director of Photography
When their parents' marriage threatens to crumble, the teenage Salazar siblings plot to reconcile them before their 20th wedding anniversary.
Fan Girl
Director of Photography
A starstruck girl sneaks into an actor’s house and discovers a horrifying truth about her idol.
The Last Manilaners
Director of Photography
When Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler staged a dangerous game, six million Jews suffered the consequences— racial discrimination, torture, and even death. Margot Pins-Kestenbaum and Lotte Cassel-Hershfield recount how their blissful lives turned into torment as the Nuremberg Laws progress in Germany in 1935, leaving the Jewish people with only two choices: to suffer and wait, or to escape. As the living survivors of Hitler's reign of terror, Margot and Lotte recall how the Philippines, under the leadership of then President Manuel L. Quezon, defied the odds and welcomed them when the whole world turned a blind eye on their agony.
Write About Love
Director of Photography
The story of a young female writer who teams up with a seasoned male writer. Both must work together to rewrite the script of an unfinished love story.
Gulis
Director of Photography
A story about a dysfunctional father and son who are still coping with a loss, the other with a highly-stigmatized illness who are compelled to talk to one another to make ends meet and heal the wounds of their relationship.
Rain
Director of Photography
In this coming-of-age-film about self-love, Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other depressing things. Will the rain ever stop her in her journey to overcome past heartaches?
Alone/Together
Director of Photography
Christine an Art Studies major student at University of the Philippines Diliman a smart and very ambitious who is in a relationship with a Biology student at University of Santo Tomas, Raf a very total opposite character of Christine.
Ode to Nothing
Director of Photography
Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.
For the Broken Hearted
Director of Photography
Three different stories about heartbreak and happy endings.
Signal Rock
Director of Photography
Intoy was left to take care of his parents when his sister Vicky leaves to work overseas. Eventually, like many women in the island, Vicky married a foreigner thinking it will solve all her family’s problems. Living in a remote area, Intoy can only get in touch with his sister by scrambling atop strange rock formations on the island.
Waiting for Sunset
Director of Photography
An old unmarried couple broke the monotony of their daily lives when the woman’s estranged husband reached out to them, seeking reconciliation and forgiveness.
Gusto Kita with All My Hypothalamus
Director of Photography
In Avenida, the lives of four men intertwine, searching for something. They all find what they are looking for in one woman named Aileen.
The Ghost Bride
Director of Photography
To save her family from being homeless and her father suffering from a heart condition, Mayen desperately agrees to take the offer of a Chinese matchmaker for a huge amount of money. In exchange, Mayen must submit herself as a Ghost Bride to a wealthy but dead Chinese man. This deal, however, happens to be a deadly curse when the deceased groom's ghost becomes jealous and possessive of Mayen.
The Decaying
Director of Photography
A husband takes flight when his wife goes missing.
Etiquette For Mistresses
Director of Photography
A story and friendship of five wealthy and successful women Georgia, Chloe, Stella, Charley, and the newest in the group Ina. The four older women take Ina under their wing as they teach her the "rules" in their "secret" world. Most importantly, they teach Ina on how to go about their secrets.
Feng Shui 2
Director of Photography
It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.
Crocodile
Director of Photography
Divina is preparing for her daughter Rowena's 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been attacked by a crocodile, her body still missing. As Divina searches for the body of her daughter in the marshlands of Agusan del Sur, she learns a lesson more tragic than her fate: not all predators are underwater. The film is based on actual events.
Badil
Director of Photography
A political thriller about the practice of "badil" or "dynamite fishing", wherein voters are prevented from casting their votes for the opposition by paying them large sums of money to get their fingers inked before election day.
Neither Man nor Beast
Director of Photography
The lives of a matriarch, her two sons, and her niece are never the same again as they come to terms with an indiscretion in the family. A pivotal decision is made and a downward spiral ensues wherein the outcome can be no less than earth-shattering.
Mamay Umeng
Director of Photography
In a quaint provincial town, an elderly man awaits his inevitable fate.
Sampaguita: The National Flower
Director of Photography
This film tells the story of a group of children whose lives are inexorably bound up with Sampaguita the national flower of Philippines and the myths that surround it. Sampaguita blossoms are much sought-after but, since they wilt quickly, they must be sold within twenty-four hours. All the children in this film are are all sampaguita pickers or sellers.
Emir
Director of Photography
"Emir" is all about Amelia (Frenscheska Farr). Amelia hails from Ilocos and she is forced to find work abroad to provide for her family. Amelia leaves her family and everything she loves behind. Amelia applies as a nanny and is lucky enough to be the caretaker of the Sheik's pregnant wife. Later on, Amelia is given appointed nanny of the Sheik's first born son Ahmed. Through the years, Amelia will not only see Ahmed grow to a boy but she will also learn more about life's trials and tribulations, struggles of lonely worker in a foreign country.
God Only Knows
Cinematography
In a dirty, decaying slum in the Philippines, single mother Maria is torn between her love for her 10-year-old son Santiago and providing a better life for him. In order to give Santiago a chance to have a decent home and a good education, she decides to send him away for adoption. But what start out as an innocent journey to the market quickly turns into a devastating loss for both mother and son.
Chopsuey
Director of Photography
Relationship problems plague a family of siblings in director Catherine O. Camarillo's multilayered indie drama. Businessman Jimmy is reeling from the shock of being dumped by his fiancee, while his sisters cope with their own romantic woes. Leslie can't decide between two eligible bachelors, Annette nurtures a long-distance love, and housewife Claire can't get pregnant.
Image Nation
Camera Operator
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Image Nation
Writer
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Image Nation
Director
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Last Full Show
Director of Photography
A high school student learns the meaning of love at an underground Manila movie theatre.
Bcuz Of U
Cinematography
This movie encloses three intertwining love stories of six different people through a vintage car: Ria and RJ share the perfect relationship until she chickens out on their wedding. Years after, she decides to win him back. But the indecisive and the new RJ is now the most sought-after model in town. He wants nothing of her anymore. Will their love prevail over the pain they cause each other? Cara never takes a chance on falling in love because she believes that it will only break her heart. That was until she meets Roni but only to find out that he is the kind of man she's been trying to avoid. Will she take the risk this time? Louie, a tourist guide, meets April a Korean girl who gets lost in the city and is left with no choice but to pretend that she is a famous actress in her hometown only to survive. Will it be possible for two very different individuals find home in one another?
Feng Shui
Director of Photography
After finding a Feng Shui amulet, Joy starts to see a string of fortunate events come her way. Soon, she realizes it is, in fact, a curse. Now she must break the cycle of good fortune and death in order to save her family.
1st Time
Director of Photography
Three stories, all first times
Sex Drive
Director of Photography
A 'sexperienced' fashion photographer and a broken-hearted fashion model take on a journey of fun and sex going to Sagada. Along the way they pick up an amnesia-hit guy starting a chain of conflicts.
Dekada '70
Director of Photography
Amanda and Julian are doing their best to rear their five sons during the repressive dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Though the parents view themselves as apolitical, most of their sons bristle at life under martial law and turn to various forms of activism -- or to simple teenage rebellion -- for release. After the family becomes the victim of extremist violence, Amanda begins to find her own dissident voice.
Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure
Director of Photography
In World War II veteran Lolo Melo enjoys regaling his grandson Jobert with war stories, one of which includes Lolo's participation in burying the famed Yamashita treasure. When Jobert heads to Manila to unearth the cache, little does he know that he has competition: A shadowy G-man and a soldier of fortune are also in pursuit of the loot.
The Life of Rosa
Director of Photography
Crime does not pay, so the adage goes. But feisty and outspoken Rosa (Rosanna Roces)--however sharp-witted--does not know any better. Doggedly out for bigger money, she is quick to rebuff even her lover Dado's (Diether Ocampo) pitch for a new life. What will they risk to succeed? What will they give to taste the sweet pleasure of living peacefully and not running away from law and the syndicate anymore? Will their love for each other endure in the end?
Playing with Fire
Director of Photography
Ding tells the story of his life and how it was shaped by three women which includes his godmother, her adopted daughter and his wife.
Jamming on an Old Saya
Director of Photography
A documentary on Gilda Cordero-Fernando's fashion theater show that was staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1995. “Is it a play? Yes, but more than. Is it a drama? Of course, but more than. A fashion show, I was told. Not quite,” Cordero-Fernando wrote in “My love affair with the ‘saya.’” Jamming on an Old Saya, staged in 1995 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, was all those things and more. Designers, couturiers, and artists reinterpreted the traditional dress for an anything-but-traditional event that included “dancers and an almost-nude man painted gold climbing a rope.”
UNOS
Director
A fragmentary tale of an 8-years old boy who feels the loss of his father as Martial Law is declared. Through images of macabre and violence we see the world of a child caught in war.
AGOSTO 9
Director
An expressionistic story of a soldier’s lament as he lies on his hospital bed 50 years after the Second World War.
The Good Kisser of Manila
Director of Photography
An artist, an actress, a child-- and the universe that guides us all.
Maalinsangan ang Gabi
In Cesar Hernando's noirish short, the uprising and UFOs are merged in a strange commentary on government control.