Bagwani Ampalayo

Movies

Riddles of My Homecoming
Art Direction
Alfad, a Lumad whose soul returns to his homeland to settle unfinished businesses and to finally rest. It is based on the Lumad’s belief that when a person dies his soul goes back to his homeland.
Grime
Mastura
A depiction between a wrong doer and the authorities with questionable characters. A moral question arises when a Maguindanawon housewife, Nhorsida whose hardpressed life forced her to peddle drugs was arrested with his innocent husband by the police. The couple while simply walking along a busy street but on the way to deliver the illegal substance is suddenly man-handled by the police. Despite the absence of a buy bust operation, the police claims and makes up a story of a drug trade. Reports in the news declare the couple having been arrested through a buy-bust operation, when no buy-bust took place. They then divide the supposed fee of Nhorsida for running drugs for Amira, like spoils of war and leave only a small portion to be declared as marked money.
Ang Paglalakbay ng mga Bituin sa Gabing Madilim
Production Design
Set in Mindanao, young Faisal, after both his parents were killed due to a ransom kidnapping, carries a bag filled with dollars and attempts to elude soldiers with his 2 new companions Amrayda and Fatima who are also in need of safety as violence and turmoil escalates in their parea.