Third member of a trio that also includes filmmakers and producers Sheron Dayoc and Arden Rod Condez, Sonny Calvento is the director of “Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss” the first Filipino short to screen in Sundance. His latest work, “Primetime Mother” has already screened in Toronto, Singapore and the Red Sea.
Primetime Mother screened at Red Sea Film Festival
The 15 minute short begins with an audition of a game show titled “My Amazing Mama” showing a number of women dressed in flowery clothes and wearing something like a garland on their heads. A woman's voice from a speaker informs the women, who have been waiting for days, to get ready, as only three of them will be chosen as contestants for the episode of the day, among the first seven that manage to reach the audition set. The protagonist barely makes it, and founds herself completely out of place, as...
Primetime Mother screened at Red Sea Film Festival
The 15 minute short begins with an audition of a game show titled “My Amazing Mama” showing a number of women dressed in flowery clothes and wearing something like a garland on their heads. A woman's voice from a speaker informs the women, who have been waiting for days, to get ready, as only three of them will be chosen as contestants for the episode of the day, among the first seven that manage to reach the audition set. The protagonist barely makes it, and founds herself completely out of place, as...
- 12/13/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
After sweeping Metro Manila Film Festival awards with 7 wins, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress, “Deleter”, Mikhail Red's first collaboration with Viva, went on to become one of the highest grossing films during the run of the festival.
Lyra works for an online content moderation company, where employees, known as deleters, deal with graphic content before it reaches online platforms, usually in an effort to prevent extreme sex and violence from getting to the screens of users. It seems, however, that the company is shady on a number of levels, as we watch employees staying in a bunkhouse, and Lyra receiving “calming pills” from her boss Simon, which justify how unfazed she is by the content she has to watch everyday. Things take a turn for the much worse when Eileen, a colleague of hers commits suicide, which gradually starts bringing up both Lyra's traumatic past and the actual nature of Simon,...
Lyra works for an online content moderation company, where employees, known as deleters, deal with graphic content before it reaches online platforms, usually in an effort to prevent extreme sex and violence from getting to the screens of users. It seems, however, that the company is shady on a number of levels, as we watch employees staying in a bunkhouse, and Lyra receiving “calming pills” from her boss Simon, which justify how unfazed she is by the content she has to watch everyday. Things take a turn for the much worse when Eileen, a colleague of hers commits suicide, which gradually starts bringing up both Lyra's traumatic past and the actual nature of Simon,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Deleter Trailer — Mikhail Red‘s Deleter (2022) movie trailer has been released by Viva Films. The Deleter trailer stars Nadine Lustre, Louise Delos Reyes, McCoy De Leon, and Jeffrey Hidalgo. Crew Nikolas Red and Mikhail Red wrote the screenplay for Deleter. Myka Magsaysay and Paul Sigua created the music for the film. Ian Alexander Guevara crafted [...]
Continue reading: Deleter (2022) Movie Trailer: Content Moderator Nadine Lustre deletes a Suicide Video but not a Vengeful Presence...
Continue reading: Deleter (2022) Movie Trailer: Content Moderator Nadine Lustre deletes a Suicide Video but not a Vengeful Presence...
- 12/29/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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