Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni (2021)

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).

As the global pandemic affects more than half the world, the Family Chan tries to cope with the seemingly permanent quarantine and the claustrophobic circumstance of being together.

A tribute to the people that we fear to lose, and for the ones that we have lost. It is a story about the fear that we have to face as the new normal.

It’s December 2020, more than nine months of community quarantine in the Philippines. The idea of nothingness is actual and symbolic. With imposed restrictions in the physical world, how can we tell our personal and collective stories of living under the “longest COVID-19 lockdown in the world”? Confined at home, physical and non-physical boundaries are magnified as the filmmaker attempts to articulate existence through floating in time and space.

In times of necessary physical distancing, ten couples from the filmmaker’s hometown allow the cameras into their homes not to disturb but capture any delicate exchange.

In transit, Carlo reminisces the blissful memories of his beloved mother, Joy, who died a few months ago while the country was in lockdown facing a worldwide pandemic. As he returns to his hometown Pampanga to reunite with his family, he will be facing a first birthday without his mother.

An exploration of how we use the masks as our new faces in these trying times. It shows a perspective of what life is like during the pandemic through poetry, metaphor, movements, and the use of painted masks.

The night before the lockdown, while reviewing some unused footages from my latest film project (Hinulid), a small box from an anonymous sender arrives. The box contains a Bikol translation of the Tagalog long poem, Ibong Adarna, and an egg.

Filming in a Time of Uncertainty is a short documentary film that follows a small team of filmmakers, who are based in the region in Mindanao, as they struggle to shoot a film amidst the trying times of the pandemic. And how they were able to comply with the community's minimum health guidelines, while observing the basic health care, in spite of the intricacies of the film industry’s standard health protocols.

A young entrepreneur meets a group of coffee farmers and finds the inspiration to continue despite the pandemic.

A woman with falling hair, anxious about her online work, a child unable to leave her room in a power outage, and a yoga buff with body issues, all encounter an unseen terror while alone in their urban middle-class homes during the nationwide quarantine.

A Manobo tribe flees from fear only to find themselves in another dreadful situation: a lockdown due to the pandemic.

In a period beset by a plague, the visionary’s portal to his soul has been thwarted by the four corners of his abode. With imagination as the only detour, the drifting of thoughts is inevitable. Amidst the overcast, the curtain opens to the apparent truth – truth that no frame can impede a visionary.

A filmmaker’s reflection about his life during the pandemic, as "the flames are climbing up the wall."

カンザスのサーカス一座のしがない奇術師オズ。ある日彼は竜巻に巻き込まれ、不思議な魔法の国にたどり着く。そこでは邪悪な魔女の圧政に苦しむ領民たちが、いつか偉大な魔法使いのオズが現われると救世主の登場を待ち望んでいて、名前の偶然の一致から、到着したオズのことをすっかり当の救世主と思い込んでしまう。オズは美しい魔女の姉妹、エヴァノラとセオドラに言われるがまま、悪い魔女のグリンダを倒す旅に出かける。

Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

Geeky 14-year old Ethan is left to babysit his younger sister, Jane, with his best friend Benny but after Ethan inadvertently puts Jane in harm's way, his parents hire a professional babysitter, the beautiful yet mysterious 17-year-old Sarah who, unbeknownst to them, is actually a fledgling vampire.

南極。皇帝ペンギンのマンブルは《ハッピーフィート》の異名を取るタップダンスの達人として知られていたが、彼の幼い息子エリックはダンスが大の苦手。あるとき、とうとう家出したエリックは、アデリーペンギンの集落で空を飛べる不思議なペンギン、スヴェンと出会う。不可能を可能にしたスヴェンに魅了されるエリック。そんな矢先、氷山の衝突によって皇帝ペンギンの国が陥没し、仲間たちが閉じ込められる大事件が発生する。

少年テッドは、一本の木さえ育たないほど最悪の環境状態にある世界で暮らしている。彼が住んでいる人工の街だけは実力者のオヘア氏によって環境が整えられ、空気もきれいで過ごしやすく保たれていた。ある日、テッドは好きな女の子にいいところを見せようと、これまで誰も見たことがない本物の木を探しに行くことにする。そこで祖母から街の外で一人で暮らしているワンスラーのことを教えてもらい、木を探す手掛かりを得ようとするが……。