Rommel Sales

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Rommel Sales

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Yung Libro sa Napanuod Ko
Director of Photography
Always
Cinematography
As the fates of an ex-boxer who closed his heart to the world and a spirited telemarketer who is slowly losing her vision intertwine, their pasts are revealed in a blooming relationship.
Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss
Cinematography
A salesgirl unearths the ultimate secret to regularization.
John Denver Trending
Cinematography
A fourteen-year-old farm boy’s life is suddenly upended when a video of him brutally attacking a classmate goes viral.
Family History
Cinematography
A heartwarming story that seeks to teach family values, life, and marriage.
So Connected
Director of Photography
It is about a guy who thinks he already knows someone just because he's been watching her life through photos and videos.
The Eternity Between Seconds
Cinematography
In Incheon airport of South Korea, time stands still for Andres, a depressive best-selling self-help author. He meets Sam, an anxious Overseas Filipino Worker who is about to start a new life as a nurse. She stalls and spends her time sketching strangers in the airport. Together, they bond over their loneliness, conversations and neuroses. Time is an unbeatable opponent, only to leave fleeting but lasting connections.
Underground
Cinematography
Portrait of a marginalised group of people living illegally in a cemetery in the Philippines, through the life of a couple with a sick child.
100 Poems for Stella
Cinematography
Throughout his four years in college, Fidel, a stuttering student, tries to finish 100 poems dedicated to Stella, an aspiring but frustrated rock star, to win her heart.
Saving Sally
Cinematography
Marty is an aspiring comic-book artist who is secretly in love with his best friend, Sally, the gadget inventor. Like every love story, there are complications: Sally has monsters for parents and a literal dick for a boyfriend, while Marty has the innate ability to do nothing about everything despite his vivid fantasies of defending the love of his life from the big bad world.
Women of the Weeping River
Cinematography
Two women in a remote Muslim community confront an escalating blood feud and reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the feud stretching back generations.
Pride and Honor
Cinematography
When the people of Maratabat finally realize that their time under the corrupt politician clan of the Abubakars has to come to an end— a series of violent acts occur one after another. The people rally behind another clan –the Mahardikas – to end the violence and place a new leader in their region. Will the Mahardikas choose a path of violence or peace? Will it be for honor or will it be for pride?
Sparks
Cinematography
While the marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. On the other hand, the man falls in love with the subject of his research—a deity that appears to him as the ghost of an old flame.
Saturday Night Chills
Cinematography
Three friends are in their quarter life crisis. Seeking adventure and thrills, they spend most of their weekend nights on brothels and night clubs. One night, an unexpected incident will change their lives permanently.
Liars
Director of Photography
The film tells the story of a journalist (Eloisa) whose expose’ of the truth results in life-changing consequences to a baseball team of poor boys. Inspired by a true story.
I-Libings
Screenplay
A coming of age story about Isabel’s lessons and realizations on life and death as a funeral videography intern. Due to her family situation, Isabel is cynical and skeptical of everything that comes her way. When she enters the I-libings for her required college internship, she sees it as the worst internship her college adviser could suggest to her. Later as she accumulates her required hours, she realizes that the company is not just a place where videographers make money out of other people’s misfortunes but is a place where the dead and the grieving receive special attention. It all comes full circle when Isabel is faced with an unusual family tragedy. Isabel realizes that her internship might have been just 200 hours, but the lessons that the I-libings left her would last a lifetime.
I-Libings
Director
A coming of age story about Isabel’s lessons and realizations on life and death as a funeral videography intern. Due to her family situation, Isabel is cynical and skeptical of everything that comes her way. When she enters the I-libings for her required college internship, she sees it as the worst internship her college adviser could suggest to her. Later as she accumulates her required hours, she realizes that the company is not just a place where videographers make money out of other people’s misfortunes but is a place where the dead and the grieving receive special attention. It all comes full circle when Isabel is faced with an unusual family tragedy. Isabel realizes that her internship might have been just 200 hours, but the lessons that the I-libings left her would last a lifetime.
Slow Fade
Director
A frustrated filmmaker afflicted with a terminal illness. With such a daunting fate, Darius decides to make a series of videos about himself, his community, and the beauty of life. With the passion of filmmaking giving him comfort, strength, and healing, Darius rediscovers his gift, and in so doing, remembers what it means to live.
The Leaving
Cinematography
A Filipino thriller directed by Ian Loreños
Ranchero
Cinematography
Ranchero unfolds in a small provincial jail in Rizal. It's about Ricardo whose last day in jail is today. He and his close friend Miyong work in the jail's kitchen. The two spent the whole morning talking about Ricardo's plans when he gets out of jail. After lunch, one of the kitchen knives went missing and this was brought to the attention of jail officials. Not only will this event affect food preparation in the jail's kitchen but also the lives of both of them.