Our works

Our work is a reflection of the artistry and the stories we like to tell. Our projects have been recognized and selected in prestigious labs, markets and festivals including Cannes Film Festival, Cinefondation L’Atelier, Torino Film Lab, Locarno Film Festival, Open Doors Hub, Annecy, Rotterdam Film Festival, Berlinale Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival, among many others.

Current Projects
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Title: SAM

Writer/Director: E del Mundo

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines), DUOfilm AS (Norway)

Status: Financing

Support/Awards:
Cannes L’Atelier Cinéfondation, Purin Pictures Production Fund, Torino Film Lab - Script Lab, Visions Sud Est, Locarno Open Doors Development Grant, Sorfond, Full Circle Lab, Southeast Asian Film Lab, A Post Lab, FDCP

Logline:
Sam, a nineteen-year-old young woman unwittingly involved in the Maguindanao massacre is determined to keep a lone survivor she discovers alive. She explores the aftermath of her choices, and the disappearance of her boyfriend Adam, who recruited her for the crime.

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Title: Brutes of Frolic

Writer/Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Development

Logline:
Haunted by the three-year absence of her missing husband, Esther (30), a single mother who works as a tour guide for mountaineers in her local village, embarks on her own treacherous journey of hunting for him in the jungle where he had retreated to live with the beasts.

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Title: Blessed Family

Writer/Director: Ram Mendoza

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Development

Logline:
Rafael Manuel returns to the Philippines after 5 years of living abroad. Back in his parents home he tries to reconnect with an ex-girlfriend but is instead faced with the cosmos that he left behind all those years ago - a mother who is obsessed with real estate, a father who is seduced by the aisles of a supermarket, and their daughter who prepares for a friend’s wedding while her son is fed by the nanny. On the television, a noon-time preacher reads about the second-coming.

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Title: Yellowfin

Writer/Director: E del Mundo

Production: Create Cinema Inc . (Philippines), Screen Asia Corporation (Philippines)

Status: Post-Production

Support/Awards:
FDCP Production Support

Logline:
Popi, a 28 year old tuna fisherman returns home from being jailed in Indonesia for two years. Only to find out his wife and everybody else have moved on as they thought he drowned and died at sea. This pushes Popo into further isolation, forcing him to return back to commercial fishing but his now ex wife’s new husband is the captain and has aimed to make his life a living hell.

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Title: Fruitcake

Writer/Director: Joel Ferrer

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines), CS Studios (Philippines)

Status: Pre-production

Logline:
Fruitcake is a multi-character comedy-drama film that portrays the intertwining stories of Filipinos from all walks of life in modern day Metro Manila. At the lowest and unluckiest point of their lives, their destiny converges on one fateful MRT train ride.

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Title: Divinas Palabras

Writer/Director: Sherad Anthony Sanchez

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Financing

Logline:
A mysterious death in the convent drives an erratic mother prioress to investigate three nuns under her care. The murdered corpse comes back to haunt the living for retribution, but the ghosts of the nuns' pasts haunts to reveal something more. A surreal macabre mystery.

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Title: Kaluha

Writer/Director: Sherad Anthony Sanchez

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Financing

Support/Awards:
Kaluha is HAF (Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum) best project award, Hubert Bals Fund recipient.

Logline:
A girl suffers from a chronic kidney disease and is in need of transplant. But her twin sister suffers from sexual abuse from the very illegal donor their aunt enlists to help them. Rather than reporting the illegal donor to the authorities and lose their chance for transplant, both twins recede to the dark fantasy and magic of their town's mountain where locals believe that whoever goes there shall never return. One twin disappears in the mountain. The other decides to find and follow her there. A fantastical trauma.

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Title: Kontrata

Writer/Director: Ely Buendia

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Financing

Support/Awards:
Cinemalaya DGPI Film Pitch - Star Cinema’s Choice, Central Digital Lab Award, Solar Entertainment Prize

Logline:
After a disastrous gig, Jude, a junkie guitarist, gets kicked out from his own band. When he meets the devil in the guise of an insurance salesman, he strikes a Faustian bargain--trading the most important thing in his life for the greatest combined guitar skills mankind has ever seen.

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Title: Mysticism

Writer/Director: Pamela L. Reyes

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Development

Support/Awards:
DGPI QCinema Film Pitch - DGPI Prize, ABSCBN International Global Lens Award, Star Cinema Prize, CMB Film Services Prize, Ten17P Films Grant

Logline:
Hidden away from the threat of an ongoing war, a young girl lives in a secluded all-female community. When she discovers her friend contracted a possibly fatal disease, she goes on an illicit quest to find a mythical cure, only to uncover the realities of warfare and the horrors of deceit.

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Title: When I Close My Eyes

Writer/Director: Pamela L. Reyes

Production: Create Cinema Inc. (Philippines)

Status: Development

Logline:
A married woman inherits an old apartment building in the province after the mysterious death of her mother. At night in between wakefulness and sleep, she is terrorized with bizarre nightmares—she is conscious but unable to move. The woman spirals into madness as she deals with her disturbing dreams, her detached husband’s fidelity, the surreality of death and the mammoth undertaking as a landlord. When a chain of rumours amongst the tenants cloud the apartment, the woman probes her sanity as her dreams and reality blur.

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