The Nigel Santos-directed comedy picture—one of the eight C1 Originals competition films this year—features the beloved songstress as a widow who believes a young pop star (Rayt Carreon) is the reincarnation of her deceased husband.
Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez-Alcasid finally marks her big-screen comeback as she stars in “Yours Truly, Shirley,” an official entry to the highly expected 2019 Cinema One Originals film festival.
Regine shared that she found it interesting how the film touches upon a sensitive topic by looking at it through a much brighter light. But I’m glad I did this. I enjoyed shooting and the whole process,” she explained.
Aside from the Songbird-starrer, other films that set to showcased during the annual film test run are “Lucid,” “Metamorphosis,” “O,” “Sila-Sila,” “Tayo Muna Habang Di Pa Tayo,” “Tia Madre,” and “Utopia.”
Victor Villanueva’s “Lucid,” written by Natts Jadaone, stars Alessandra De Rossi ang JM de Guzman and centers its story on Ann, a luminous dreamer with her dreams the exact opposite of her mundane, routinary life. Tiglao.
Lauren Young, Anna Luna, Sarah Carlos, and Jasmine Curtis-Smith lead the cast of Kevin Dayrit’s “O,” where Maria, a morgue-intern, meets vampire ‘drug lord’ Matilda in “O.” In this thriller, Matilda forces Maria to become a blood pusher for her life, selling dried blood sachets to modern-day, harmless vampires.
Meanwhile, Giancarlo Abrahan returns to C1 Originals with “Sila-Sila,” a comedy about a boy who falls in and out of love with ‘the same people’ starring Topper Fabregas and Gio Gahol.
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“Tayo Muna Habang Hindi Pa Tayo,” a romance drama by Denise O’ Hara, meanwhile zeroes in on the roller coaster breakup of Alex (Jane Oineza) and Carlo (JC Santos).
Eve Baswel’s horror entry “Tia Madre” is about a 10-year-old Angel (Jana Agoncillo) who is living alone with her warm and loving mother (Cherie Gil), who unexpectedly became distant and violent towards her. The film is about a videographer, a rookie police officer, and an undercover agent whose lives intertwine in the labyrinth of a violent city’s underbelly.
Cinema One Originals have been producing breakthrough films with edgy, thought-provoking contents to the Filipino audience such as “That Thing Called Tadhana,” “Baka Bukas,” “Yanggaw,” “Confessional,” “Changing Partners,” “2 Cool 2 be 4Gotten,” “Mamu; And a Mother too” and more.
