Benjamin Padero

Filmes

In My Mother's Skin
Production Design
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
Nocebo
Production Design
Uma designer de moda sofre de uma doença misteriosa que intriga seus médicos e frustra seu marido. Até que a ajuda chega na forma de uma cuidadora filipina, que usa a cura popular tradicional para revelar uma verdade terrível.
Midnight in a Perfect World
Production Design
In the near future, Manila is an almost-utopian city, but they still believe in ghost stories. Nobody survives the mysterious blackouts that happen in random parts of the city after midnight. Nobody believes the horrors in its darkness are even real. Four friends are about to find out that you don’t need to believe, for it to come for you.
Siargao
Production Design
Fresh from a breakup caused by her fear of settling down, video blogger Laura embarks on a solo trip to Siargao hoping to move on and find a new adventure. Here she meets rock singer Diego who is caught between uncertainties of the future and baggages of the past. This fateful encounter stirs up what local entrepreneur Abi thought were long lost feelings for a long lost love, i.e. Diego. In this unlikely triangle, is there room for second chances? Or should they move on to something(one) new?
Si Chedeng at Si Apple
Production Design
In the wake of her husband's death, Chedeng, 66, decides to come out of the closet. Her best friend Apple, 63, beheads her live-in partner in a fit of rage. Bound by friendship, the two elderly women, together with the severed head placed inside a Louis Vuitton bag, set off an adventure to find Chedeng's ex-girlfriend.
Singing in Graveyards
Production Design
Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend’s concert but he must do something neither of them has done before – write a love song.
Brotherhood
Art Direction
A story focusing on a elite law school fraternity, it follows a week in the lives of a neophyte, a master, and a lawyer alumnus, and crosses the lines of money, power and connections within Manila’s society.
Heneral Luna
Production Design
A Filipino general who believes he can turn the tide of battle in the Philippine-American war. But little does he know that he faces a greatest threat to the country's revolution against the invading Americans.
Above the Clouds
Production Design
A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.
Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles
Production Design
With dark shades on and a burning cigarette between his lips, Makoy will do whatever it takes to get back his girlfriend Sonia, who’s pregnant with their child. He makes the trip to remote Pulupandan, her hometown, and is quickly rebuffed by Sonia’s mother Fely. But Makoy has never been one to give up. With the help of Sonia’s father Nestor and his ever-dependable helper Bart, Makoy stays in town to surprise Sonia on her birthday. But alas, Makoy gets into trouble with a group of townsfolk who transform into tiktik—horrific, man-eating creatures with a taste for fetuses that are still in the womb! They are angry, and they are hungry for revenge. Will their thirst for blood and retribution be quenched? Will Makoy finally get his act together, protect Sonia and their baby, and once and for all prove himself worthy of their love? Who will win in the battle between men and monsters?
Em Nome de Deus
Production Design
A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
Shake, Rattle & Roll 13
Production Design
An old man Lando (Ronnie Lazaro) has buried something under his house. When he is finished, he encounters a group of white people. The chieftain (Manu Respall) demands Lando to give back something that belongs to them which he refuses. Angered, he and his tribesmen savagely killed him.
Shake Rattle and Roll 12
Production Design
The first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.
Senior Year
Production Design
A high school movie featuring a mix of real students and professional actors that deals with the experience of finding one's identity in a country that barely has one.
The Blood Trail
Production Design
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.
Serviço
Production Design
Nanay Flor é a matriarca da família Pineda, que mantém em funcionamento um cinema com sessões duplas de filmes pornô. Todos da família trabalham ao lado de Nanay Flor: a filha Nayda, o genro Lando e a filha adotiva Jewel, além dos sobrinhos Alan e Ronald. Na medida em que os personagens são apresentados, vamos conhecendo os pecados de cada um - a começar por Nanay Flor, que mantém um casamento bígamo.
Foster Child
Production Design
Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption.