Rolly Ruta

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Rolly Ruta

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Tatsulok
Sound
Minda, in her forties, is having a torrid affair with the younger Dave, and is trying to hide it from her husband Chito. Dave is an occasional tattoo artist. He also plays drums in a rock and roll band that has a difficult time finding gigs, now that the US Navy has left Subic Bay. One day Stephanie, a Philippino-American who came to the Philippines on a cultural discovery tour, turns up at Minda's house claiming she is her daughter, whom she gave away for adoption twenty years earlier. Stephanie has questions about her adoption that Minda is unwilling to answer. Dave arrives and takes Stephanie out, much to the annoyance of Minda.
Ama Namin
Sound Supervisor
The life and faith of a priest was put into test when his family was killed by the military who wrongly accused them of supporting the communist rebels. After being tortured by the military, he joined the rebels to avenge his family's death. Will he finally get the justice he never got when he was still a servant of God?
Secrets of Madonna
Sound Supervisor
A surreal melodrama about a deranged woman raising a child.
Gloria Gloria Labandera
Sound Engineer
Gloria is a pretty laundress working for a rich young couple. Her male employer is sick and tired of his wife's negative ways, so he decided to use Gloria to rile her.
Patikim ng Pinya
Sound Engineer
A pretty pineapple plantation owner is very strict with her younger sister when it comes to men. One days she finds a good-looking man suffering from amnesia. She makes him believe that he is her husband.
Ang Titser Kong Pogi
Sound Supervisor
Joey Perez, a policeman goes to Subic as a Kindergarten teacher to secretly investigate the case where he was framed up. He becomes attached to Cynthia, a co-teacher and Jimbo, his student—both relatives of his suspect. Joey has to protect himself and the children to prove his innocence once and for all.
Urban Rangers
Sound
Idealistic graduates of the police academy battle crime in their city.
Tunay na Magkaibigan, Walang Iwanan... Peksman!
Sound Engineer
Megamol
Sound Supervisor
A rich old lady, who was dying, hired a detective agency to go in search of her long lost granddaughter. Lacking the manpower for the job, janitor Andrew was passed off as a private detective. He located the missing girl who was working as a sales lady.
Nandito Ako
Sound Engineer
A 1994 Filipino action drama starring Phillip Salvador and Kris Aquino.
Muntik na Kitang Minahal
Sound Supervisor
A 1994 Filipino romantic drama starring Claudine Barretto and Isko Moreno.
Dalawa Laban Sa Mundo: Ang Siga At Ang Beauty
Sound Supervisor
Kung Kailangan Mo Ako
Sound Supervisor
They're two people whose paths are unlikely to cross. She's (Sharon Cuneta) a rich balikbayan who has returned home to do business; he's (Rudy Fernandez) a just released ex-convict who's trying to build a new life. But fate does work in strange ways
Teacher... Teacher I Love You
Sound Supervisor
A 1993 Filipino comedy film starring Redford White.
Gagay: Prinsesa ng Brownout
Sound Supervisor
Gagay (Gelli de Belen) and her family are gathering woods which they make into coal. Though they were poor, they already saw some improvement in their lives. This is the Cinderella story for the brown-out plagued generation of this country.
Basagulero
Sound Supervisor
A 1992 Filipino action film starring Ronnie Ricketts and Rachel Lobangco.
Alyas Pogi 2
Sound Engineer
A 1992 Filipino film starring Bong Revilla, Rita Avila, Charito Solis, and Jay Ilagan.
Working Students
Sound Supervisor
A 1992 Filipino comedy film directed by Ed Palmos.
Sana Kahit Minsan
Sound Supervisor
Mandurugas
Sound Supervisor
A 1992 Filipino action comedy starring Dennis Padilla and Janno Gibbs.
Mukhang Bungo: Da Coconut Nut
Sound Supervisor
Laugh out loud with the best comedians in town! Mukhang Bungo stars Redford White, Sheila Ysrael, Willie Revillame, Berting Labra and Dindo Arroyo in a movie that will make you roll into laughter.
Pat. Omar Abdulah: Pulis Probinsiya
Sound Engineer
A 1992 Filipino action film starring Phillip Salvador
Uubusin Ko Ang Lahi Mo
Sound Supervisor
A 1991 Filipino action film starring Phillip Salvador.
Spark in the Dark
Sound
The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon.
Boyong Mañalac: Hoodlum Terminator
Sound Designer
He used to be an outlaw. Now, he is feared by the criminals. Follow this action-filled chapter in the life of Boyong Manalac and witness how he terminates the notorious hoodlums one by one in cold blood. Starring Eddie Garcia, as the hoodlum turned cop. Also stars Edu Manzano, John Regala, Marta Sonano and Pinky De Leon. Eddie Rodriguez directs.
Alyas Pogi: Birador ng Nueva Ecija
Sound Supervisor
A 1990 Filipino action film starring Ramon Revilla Jr.
Anak ni Baby Ama
Sound Director
A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mother, divulges the truth about his roots. He is caught between leaving his past and living his new life.
Dirty Affair
Sound Supervisor
A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boyfriend from jail. The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival.
Biokids
Sound Supervisor
Five kids are rewarded with extraordinary powers by an aging scientist. Their mission is to correct the wrong and injustice in the world. With dynamic effort and dazzling speed, the five superheroes face the evil Exxor and his men, who are bent on creating worldwide havoc. It's up to our super kids to save the world and restore order.
If Eternity Were Finished
Sound
A young man achieves success as a singer, affecting everyone around him.
Sagot ng Puso
Sound Supervisor
A desperately poor young man is forced to avenge himself against the abusive rich and powerful who had oppressed him.
Kolehiyala
Sound
A film by Eddie Rodriguez.
Love at First Sight
Sound Supervisor
Roselle, Vera, and Gemma are three childhood friends living different lives in search of love and real happiness.
Jones Bridge Massacre
Sound Supervisor
A 1988 Filipino action film starring Lito Lapid.
Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita
Sound
Salve, a content barrio lass, is married to Alfred, an aspiring politician. Alfred meets Via finds out that they can both be very useful to each other's lives. He is set on pursuing a political career and Via is from a powerful political family that wants to continue to govern the land. Together, Albert and Via plan a scheme to get rid of Salve. But Salve survives the carnage. Salve takes revenge.
Isang Araw Walang Diyos
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A cult called Wakwak headed by Papa Mundo is ready to kill and be killed to fight for their beliefs. It is a religious battle for their leader, clad in priest's robes, who they believe has supernatural powers to extinguish life out of anyone. Outnumbered, Lt. Cary Altamonte's group fights for the safety of the civilians. The situation unfolds in a battle of faith.
Agila ng Maynila
Sound Supervisor
Mauro Reyes is an ex-policeman tag as a sharpshooter to the lawbreaker that managed to cope up with the death of his family and became a rescuer ... In the verge of adversity that has happened to his family, he became so depressed, self-centered and hopeless in lif, until a heinous felony re-awakened his identity. Due to the different rape slays and murders that had arise in their place, he tried to unveil the hidden mystery of the cases... discovering in the end the involvement of the law enforcer in the transgression. Will he be able to resolve everything even if he's an ex-policeman?
Afuang
Sound Editor
An honest to goodness cop who labors to keep the honor of his badge. Fighting ruthless criminals, he has acquired the fury of the syndicates he is fighting. But despite all the threats that are coming his way he does not give up.
Three Faces of Love
Sound
Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates a forbidden room owned by a mysterious woman whose sister was murdered; and the third, "Katumbas ng Kahapon" (directed by Emmanuel Borlaza) follows a young woman torn between her abusive husband and her former lover who returned from the US.
Saan Nagtatago ang Pag-ibig?
Sound
Made pregnant by Ric, Estella was forced to marry his brain-damaged younger brother played by Val to save herself from the shame of having an illegitimate child. But what was intended as a marriage of convenience became a fulfilling relationship that eventually opened the eyes and hearts of everybody into the beautiful soul hidden inside the young man nobody wanted.
Balweg The Rebel Priest
Sound Engineer
Conrado Balweg, dedicated himself to the service of God but while he was assigned as a parish priest in Cordillera in the Mountain Province, events transpiring around him forced him to take up arms to rescue his people from the greed of developers from the lowlands, and from a government who was unsympathetic to the plea of the indigenous tribes to save their ancestral lands. In the war which ensued with the arrival of the military forces, Fr. Balweg was forced out of his parish and into the mountains, where he later became one of the most charismatic of leaders, admired by the masses, hated by the government and loved by many women.
Di Bale na Lang
Sound Director
Lost and Found Command: Rebels Without Because
Sound Supervisor
A 1987 Filipino action comedy starring Redford White.
Laban Kung Laban
Sound Supervisor
A young man, jilted by his girlfriend, join forces with an older man in avenging the death of his brother and fighting the ruling powers in their community.
Anak ng Tondo
Sound Supervisor
Between yesterday and today, when innocent dreams turn into reality, a man seeks his past to face a violent tomorrow!
Isa Isa Lang
Sound Supervisor
The billiard ball is round... like the life of Carding which revolves around the billiard table for the survival of his small family. As a master of the game, he's prey to the big bets and vices of rich gamblers. He seeks revenge on them when he was falsely accused of playing the game backward.
Bilang Na Ang Oras Mo
Sound Supervisor
A mysterious vigilante singlehandedly and summarily eliminates criminals.
Bukas Luluhod Ang Mga Tala
Sound Editor
Rebecca is born to a poor family, a young woman whose life is defined by poverty and deprivation. But of the many things she has to endure, it is the insults that other people hurl that hurt the most. Yet despite of everything, Rebecca remains ambitious and unabashed. She pledges to herself that she will one day raise herself and her family from poverty and when that time comes, she will get back at those who had oppressed them.
Hot Property
Sound
This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attraction of show.
Bad Bananas on the Silver Screen
Sound Designer
Zany foursome Errol, Herman, Tacio, and Peewee merely geared up for a short underwater dive towards Hundred Islands when a series of miscalculations cause them to resurface on the shores of Mexico.
Turumba
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
Moral
Sound Designer
The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.
Daniel Bartolo ng Sapang Bato
Sound Supervisor
FPJ plays a man who take matters to his own hands and settles the score when he is pushed to his limits.
Brutal
Sound Mixer
A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist becomes interested in the case and resolves to unravel the truth behind the murders.
Hellfire
Sound Engineer
It's the Holy Week, the end of Lent, a popular time for Filipinos to have a vacation. A young couple travels to Baguio to escape the Metro's summer heat. But before they reach the city proper, their jeep breaks down. Fortunately, they find a transient house with a room to spare. The housekeeper is a mysterious fellow, warm but dreadfully awkward. The couple doesn't mind him though and they even make it an adventure to find out more about their host by asking locals what they know about the house and its keeper. Come Good Friday, the day God dies, they will discover that adventures and vacations don't go well together all the time.
Temptation Island
Sound Supervisor
A group of beauty contest finalists stranded in a desert island without food, water and shelter.
Aguila
Sound
Daniel Aguila's son recounts memories of the Philippines as he searches for his father.
Pleasure
Sound
Ishmael Bernal's caustic drama about kept mistresses.
Ikaw ay Akin
Sound Supervisor
Horticulturist Teresita and Rex, a skydiving enthusiast and passenger jeep manufacturer, have been together for five years. Rex then meets the vivacious but fidgety Sandra, who is obviously smitten with him. Rex is then unsettles by his conflicting feelings for the two.
Wake Up, Maruja
Sound Engineer
At the turn of the century, Maruja Isable Sevilla y Mira poisons herself when forced to marry a man she does not love. Several decades later, she is reincarnated as a young producer-actress, Nina Concepcion. Nina is hell-bent on filming the legend involving the couple of ill-starred lovers. However, wandering ghosts and possessions by entities in a haunted ancestral home keep Nina's cast busy. Events come to a height when the past collides with the present.