My last post was on September. Can't believe so much happened in two months' time. As my memory is just a tad better than that of a goldfish, lemme chronicle such happenings, numerically if you will.
1. (Charger) Tsardyer
Worked with Direk Sig Barros-Sanchez on my third full-length project, second on Cinemaone Originals. I got the marketing and sponsorship piece of the production cake--something I'm allergic to since my college days. So hello to that. Survived it though, as failure is not an option. In the end, the jungles of Antipolo made a family out of our motley crew. Here's the
trailer.
2. Batanes.
Wonderful Wonderful Batanes. A dream realized after 8 months of booking that fateful plane ticket. This deserves a solo post, if not a blog of its own.
3. SG with Mudang
I haven't gone out of these Islands for over two years I think. I missed plane rides (big kinds not charter planes), nice hotels, good food, and shopping out of my parents' wallet. (I know that last part was bad freeloader statement, but hey, they insisted). We got a bad hotel though, Concorde was packed, we had to stay in Grand central. I got to visit Universal studios and, as usual, rode the fast rides alone. Didn't want to try my luck with Mudang since that one incident in Disneyland where she rode the Space mountain by accident. We got home a few hours too early.
I had fun, though the price tags made me miss HK.
4. "Lumang Kahoy"
First time to work with
Ate Pam as director of the first sci-fi short film feature, NCCa grantee. It's a second take on the film though, two years too late. Why? How? Oh nothing, some ass just deleted 250K-worth of raw footage. Script was re-written, got a new set of cast...lots of changes according to those who were part of the last LK production. Come to think of it, I'm the only new addition '
ata. With a mix of guilt and perk, I say this is one of the few films I'm proud to be part of and will drag my friends into watching.
Sneak a peek.
5. Write, Right?
I've joined a writing workshop by GMA biggie RJ Nuevas. I actually worked for them before, when the workshop was envisioned to be on a national scale. That didn't work out. This came as a welcome surprise as I've always enjoyed workshops. I felt like that cursor blinking on the white empty sheet of MS word, like I didn't know anything about writing despite my practice and teaching gigs at my school org. It's what's been eating up my Saturdays and racking up my brains the rest of the week. Good ngarag is good.
Two whirlwind months of "Work" and travel. I hope this doesn't mean two months of mundane complacency. Then again, there's always coffee for those kind of days.