Publio Briones III

Películas

Seize
Mayor Joel Panagdait
A forest guard in his late 50’s leads the confiscation of equipment used for illegal logging, even if he works under the government he is still unassertive of his power to stop the illegal activity.
Huwebes Huwebes
Xander (Segment "Pa-burger sa Camotes")
Three men. Three stories. Noel, a fisherman battling with his curiosity, commits a grave mistake and ends up paying the price. Xander, a man assigned to track down an evasive drug pusher, finds the man’s blind daughter who is longing for her island hometown instead. Emman, a stranger seeking refuge in a seaside village, is befriended by a local who asks for his help but finds that there is more to the boy than what meets the eye. Huwebes Huwebes is a triptych of stories that embraces the sea, depicting different lives, all battling one war.
A Short History of a Few Bad Things
Chief Ouano
In the southern Philippine city of Cebu, a troubled detective struggles to solve a series of grisly killings, while a deep conspiracy works to keep the truth just out of his reach.
No Rice Grows Among the Lemongrass
Aster Salvacion
A documentary crew go out into Philippine agricultural heartland to tail the lives made rich by miracle rice—a prized strain of the grain with almost mythic qualities.
Babylon
Two young girls travel through time to assassinate a barangay dictator to revise history. This is Babylon.
Aberya
A Filipino-American boxer on a pleasure trip, a prostitute on a mission, a local drug dealer experimenting with time travel, and a social climber all cross paths in Cebu, the beautiful Philippine southern island, in this deliriously imagined occult superhero movie.
Ritmo
A rebel group camp in the mountainous area of the Visayan Region is seized by the army. All the members of the rebel group are captured except for young Lito, also known as "Ninja Boy," famous for his extreme agility and knowledge of the terrain. He is the last rebel left to be caught.
Señorita
Donna, a transgender sex worker in Manila, moves back to her small hometown in search of a new life. Once there, she reunites with her child, who knows her as his aunt, and becomes caught up in the intrigues surrounding a critical local election, working to unseat the corrupt mayor.
My Paranormal Romance
Edgar / Edwina
A girl named Merry Pascual, a typical college girl, who wants to finish her academic studies in the toughest and most respected institutions in the country, Super Hard University. Her life turned when she transferred to a boarding house owned by Miss Edwina. Little did Merry know that Miss Edwina has the power to see spirits from another reality. Until Miss Edwina got caught in an accident, Merry was the successor of Miss Edwina of owning the third eye. Having a third eye wasn’t part of Merry’s plans in life. So she seeks for a paranormal expert who can remove the third eye from her.
Wanted: Boarder
Gino-o
Story of an aswang who finds a boarder just to eat his innards afterwards
The Blood Trail
Mang Renato
Laya is a young professional photographer who has drifted away from her family. Her father has fallen ill, but she hasn’t once come to visit him at the hospital. Her mother, who left their family when Laya was a child, returns to urge Laya to make amends with her father, but Laya’s pain goes deeper than her mother suspects. Laya is sent to the provinces to document a ritual of a disappearing indigenous tribe, and there, she inadvertently comes face to face with her own demons as she observes the relationships of the last remaining members of this dying culture.
Confessional
Lito Caliso
A documentary filmmaker from Manila sets out to cover the Sinulog Festival in Cebu, but gets in over his head when he meets a retired, corrupt politician who is ready to tell all.