James Arvin Rosendal

Filmes

Call Me Papi
Production Design
After getting busted for having an affair with a married woman, Sonny, a gym instructor, crashes in with his friend Lito along with three other working guys: Ben, Mario, and Roy. They all share an apartment in Manila to make ends meet as Mario and Lito both work as call center agents, Ben as a restaurant waiter, and Roy as a bartender. Sonny’s supposed brief stay will reveal long kept secrets among the roommates, and will test their friendship. Will their responsibilities as men outweigh the joy they get from their relationships with each other and the women in their lives?
Skylab
Production Design
The year is 1979, the Skylab satellite is falling to Earth. In the days leading up to the crash, two troubled boys wait for doomsday, only to realize that darker forces are threatening them.
Kahon
Production Design
An ex-priest is in a confession box before mass, revealing a time ten years ago, when he was faced with a choice between his vows and his morals.
Metamorfoses
Production Design
Adam, de 14 anos, foi criado como um rapaz até ter tido o seu primeiro período menstrual. Quando exames indicam que possui genitália ambígua - ou hermafroditismo - mas que está mais próximo de ser uma menina, o pai decide “corrigir” a sua condição.
Isang Daa't Isang Mariposa
Production Design
It took a hundred queer years for Lola Perla to be finally recognized by a government that never really took notice of the likes of her. But that’s okay, because along with the president’s anti-climactic, and in many ways, almost insincere recognition is a fat envelope containing Php100,000 (USD$2,000). For Perla, this is more than enough money to transcend her idea of a lifetime legacy. Today is the day Lola Perla confronts her long-standing personal covenant: to bail an ex-lover’s son out of jail. Meeting fifty-someting Nanding transforms into a reunion, then, a communion of her present self, with an old love.
Birdshot
Art Direction
Diego Mariano é o zelador da terra que cerca um santuário; ele é o pai de Maya, de 14 anos. Diego quer que sua filha seja autossuficiente, então ele a ensina a disparar uma arma. Depois de falhar suas primeiras aulas de tiro, Maya vaga para o santuário da floresta com a espingarda de cano duplo de seu pai e deliberadamente mata uma águia filipina, um animal em extinção. Enquanto isso, o policial Domingo vai para a área para investigar o misterioso desaparecimento de agricultores a caminho de Manila em um ônibus, mas é obrigado a parar. O parceiro de Domingo, Mendoza, e seu comandante, acreditam que Domingo deveria se concentrar em encontrar o assassino da águia filipina.
Kristo
Production Design
The story delves into what is supposed to be a victorious day for Boy whose first born — Jemjem, graduated from elementary with honors. Throughout the story, bits and pieces of fighting against oppression of losing his main livelihood as a vendor, of fighting for his winnings in a bet to game fowls, fighting for his honor as a family man, and eventually fighting for his own life against fate will be revealed.