Arleen Cuevas

Películas

Nanahimik ang Gabi
Co-Producer
The film revolves around the covert relationship of a woman with a corrupt police officer and "sugar daddy."
Shock Me Shokoy
Producer
How to Disappear Completely
Producer
A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father relishes in alcohol and history. She decides to put on a stage play based on an old Filipino film about a family who disappears in the mountains during the war. But soon after the performance, she vanishes from the car, prompting her parents to look for her in the woods. One by one, they all start to disappear.
Porno
Producer
An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, where passion and love mean humanity, ecstasy means enlightenment; and the soul is the ultimate arbiter of the truth.
Boxing in the Philippine Islands
Producer
Raya Martin loves old silent films and knows better than anyone how to use old moods and techniques in his own films. You could say that he loves experimental films and that he manages to revitalise the old techniques. Here he looks at boxers, even though we hardly see them.
Amigo
Line Producer
Amigo se centra en Rafael Dacanay, cabeza del barrio de San Isidro, en una área arrocera de Luzón, Filipinas. Su hermano Simón, jefe de la guerrilla local, ha obligado a la Guardia Civil española a retirarse de su avanzada y encarga a Rafael que encarcele al Capitán de la guarnición y a un fraile español, el Padre Hidalgo, en nombre del gobierno revolucionario. Pero cuando el General Aguinaldo llegan, el oficial español y el Padre Hidalgo son liberados, una guarnición al mando del Teniente Ike Compton permanece para "proteger" el barrio. La política de ocupación estadounidense evoluciona de “corazones y mentes” a “concentración” (lo que se denominó “hamletting” durante la guerra de Vietnam) y Rafael tiene que responder tanto ante los americanos como ante los patriotas filipinos, con consecuencias mortales.
Independencia
Line Producer
Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home.
Aurora
Producer
"The social worker Aurora is kidnapped by a group of Moslem rebels who have lost their ideals and only plunder. In a military attack on the camp where Aurora is being held, she manages to escape. But in the jungle, she doesn't have a hope and two attackers find her the same night. Her name means 'first light of day', but it's not at all certain that Aurora will make it that far." - IFFR
Next Attraction
Producer
Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layered making-of movie.
Now Showing
Producer
Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest districts with her busy mother and entrepreneurial aunt. Years later, she is still the same girl enamoured with television, now also tending to her aunt’s stall selling pirated DVD movies. Elsewhere, there survives footages of a movie done before the war.
Daybreak
Line Producer
Un hombre casado está teniendo una aventura con otro hombre. Después de un tiempo separados, los dos hombres pasan una noche juntos en una casa de vacaciones familiar en Tagaytay, Cavite. Juntos, en lugares tan cercanos, los dos se quedan sin nada más que hacer frente a las realidades de su relación.
Adela
Producer
Adela, a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela gauges her life against those of the sea of humanity. Adela is about the quiet moments in life that can fill us with either joy or sorrow.
Possible Lovers
Producer
A one-sided romance, from the gazer (JK Anicoche) and the subject of his gaze (Abner Delina), a sleeping man wearing a coat and a top hat.
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Co-Producer
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.