GSIS Independent Film Screening

AN INVITATION

GSIS Independent Film Screening
on the occassion of the 15th anniversary of the GSIS Museo ng Sining

Please come and watch ! Free. Open to the public. Please call 479-3588

APRIL 26 TUESDAY, 12:15pm to 7:10pm :
GSIS Theater / Pasay City


Below are the films to be screened:

1.MANONG JUNI, OKAY LANG YAN written & directed by Mayo Baluyut
12:15-12:45pm

tells a day in a life of an elementary school janitor named Manong Juni who, after being an excellent and loyal employee for his school for the past ten years, begins to face his greatest challenge yet – putting his job, life virtues and character to the test.

Overwhelmed and down stricken by the terrorizing and scornful ways of the school’s new principal, Principal Debbie Asuncion, Manong Juni struggles to cope as he encounters familiar and even new levels of stress and discouragement – up to a point where he begins to think if his life and his love for his job has, still, any worth at all. All of these circumstances pile up with great pain within him, only for him to find out in the end of what God’s providential love and grace could actually do, even in his most trying times.

Starring: Jaime Pangan, Jam Jamila, Reeda de los Reyes, others

2) NERSERI written & directed by Vic Acedillo Jr.

1:30-3:00 pm

Cocoy,12, takes on a great responsibility of taking care of his older siblings while his mother, Mai, goes to the province to get money to pay the expensive hospital bills for her three mentally sick children. His mother is gone for two weeks and Cocoy’s struggle in managing his personal, school and home life is a nerve-racking challenge. In the end he faces truth and life head-on as he fights for his own sanity.

Starring: Timothy Mabalot, Jaclyn Jose, Ynes Veneracion, Lance Reymundo, Tony Mabesa, others

3)GULONG written & directed by Sockie Fernandez
3:30-5:00pm

Is about friendship, love and life. The story is told from the point-of-view of Apao, a smart, kindhearted boy whose quest for an old bicycle reveals the stuff he is made of. With him on this adventure are his insan Momoy and his bespren Tom-Tom. The story begins with a question: How are our 3 friends going to spend their summer vacation? Tom-Tom suggests that they go to his uncle's fishpond, an hour's bike ride from where they live. Apao and Momoy have a problem - they don't own a bike! There are no jeeps and it is too far to walk. Momoy finds an old bicycle but the owner, an old woman named Tita Maggie, will only give it to him if he pays her a hundred pesos. He agrees and promises to come back with the money the next day. This starts a series of events which affects Apao, his friends, his family and even his community. In the end, a discarded 40 year old bicycle connects the past to the present and becomes a catalyst for healing old wounds and reviving a love affair that has long been left for dead.

Starring: Tricia Amper, Robert Arevalo, Jopet Concordia, Ina Feleo, Steven Fermo, Igi Flores, others


4)FAUSTA directed by Felino Tanada
5:30 - 7:00pm


Is about the life of Fausta Labrador, a holy woman who founded the Sacred Heart College (SHC) run by the Daughters of Charity. She opened a charity school on April 27, 1884 at the age of 26. She died on Sept. 14, 1942 at the age of 84. After World War II, a ward of Hermana Fausta asked Fernando Amorsolo to do a portrait of the SHC founder using a picture as model. Amorsolo refused, saying he only painted live models. But the ward wouldn’t take no for an answer so Amorsolo asked who the woman was. Upon learning of the noble deeds of Hermana Fausta he agreed.

Starring: Perla Bautista, Tommy Abuel, Ningning Zafranco, Josefina Sace, Mabel Lucero-Redor, others

tara!