Ellen Ramos

Filmes

Vahay The Ivatan House
Editor
A look inside the Batanes traditional house and how the Ivatans preserve their custom of constructing their vahay (house).
Pauwi Na
Screenplay
A tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.
Garden of Eve
Director
A woman (Mercedes Cabral) shares her story as a prostitute in front of the camera. A survivor, she looks back at her life as a mother. Milagros (Sue Prado) and Elena (Jam Pérez) are sisters tilling “camote” (sweet potato) in a dry land. Poverty provokes Elena to migrate as a mail-order bride in Japan while Milagros stays to take care of the family. Eos (Boots Anson Roa) is a widow who falls in love with a younger man, Rodrigo (Rome Mallari). They try to make the relationship work amidst the pressure of their family and the society.
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Herself
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
Endless Farewell
Director
The plot is about Maria (Lovi Poe), a 16-year old girl who elopes with her boyfriend Ryan (Joem Bascon) to Baguio. While they are in a hotel in Baguio, they meet a terminally ill tourist (Jacky Woo) who is in Baguio beause it is where he met his ex-wife who is a Filipina. Maria develops a strange relationship with the tourist and she is later torn between the love of Ryan and the older stranger she has just met. Meanwhile, Maria’s father (Ricardo Cepeda) hires a private detective named Patrick (Jake Roxas) to look for his daughter. Patrick is a homosexual who is learning to deal with the promiscuity of his lover (Rico Barrera).
The Inmate
Editor
Selda conta a história de Rommel, um jovem que mata acidentalmente um menino, resultando na sua prisão. Dentro de uma prisão repleta de conflitos, ele faz amizade com outro preso, Esteban, que se torna seu protetor. Sete anos mais tarde, quando Rommel vive na província como um agricultor, juntamente com sua esposa Sita, Esteban estabelece um reencontro com Rommel, na esperança de renovação de um caso do qual viveram na prisão.
The Inmate
Line Producer
Selda conta a história de Rommel, um jovem que mata acidentalmente um menino, resultando na sua prisão. Dentro de uma prisão repleta de conflitos, ele faz amizade com outro preso, Esteban, que se torna seu protetor. Sete anos mais tarde, quando Rommel vive na província como um agricultor, juntamente com sua esposa Sita, Esteban estabelece um reencontro com Rommel, na esperança de renovação de um caso do qual viveram na prisão.
The Inmate
Writer
Selda conta a história de Rommel, um jovem que mata acidentalmente um menino, resultando na sua prisão. Dentro de uma prisão repleta de conflitos, ele faz amizade com outro preso, Esteban, que se torna seu protetor. Sete anos mais tarde, quando Rommel vive na província como um agricultor, juntamente com sua esposa Sita, Esteban estabelece um reencontro com Rommel, na esperança de renovação de um caso do qual viveram na prisão.
The Inmate
Director
Selda conta a história de Rommel, um jovem que mata acidentalmente um menino, resultando na sua prisão. Dentro de uma prisão repleta de conflitos, ele faz amizade com outro preso, Esteban, que se torna seu protetor. Sete anos mais tarde, quando Rommel vive na província como um agricultor, juntamente com sua esposa Sita, Esteban estabelece um reencontro com Rommel, na esperança de renovação de um caso do qual viveram na prisão.
Image Nation
Art Direction
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Image Nation
Production Design
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Image Nation
Editor
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Image Nation
Writer
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Image Nation
Director
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolution, challenging directors to answer the question "What happened after 1986?" with a short film not longer than five minutes each. Despite individual techniques, the same goal is shared: to depict a truthful image of the nation at present.
Illusion
Editor
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
Illusion
Animation
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
Illusion
Director
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
Piso Dalawang Piso
Title Designer
A wounded activist ends up in a toilet and meets two members of the oppressed masses whose only reality is living on toilet fees.