Top 10 Filipino Indie Films
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10. Ekstra (A Bit Player)
Directed by: Jeffrey Jeturian
A socio-realist
drama-comedy film, it follows a seemingly usual day in the life of Loida
Malabanan (Vilma Santos) as she embarks on yet another
shooting day of a soap opera as an extra.
As the shoot goes on, we get a glimpse of the truth in the ruling system of the
production as well as the exploitation of the marginalized laborers
like her.
AWARDS
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2013 (Directors Showcase)
Best Screenplay
Best Actress – Vilma Santos Recto
Best Supporting Actress – Ruby Ruiz
NETPAC
Award – Jeffrey Jeturian
Special
Jury Prize
Audience Choice Award
9. Babagwa (Spider’s Liar)
Directed by: Jason Paul Laxamana
Greg (Alex Medina) uses
a fake Facebook account to trick people into depositing money into his bank
account. Assuming the persona of a fictional guy named Bam (Kiko Matos), he
flirts with a filthy rich woman that he met online. But in time, he falls in
love with Daisy (Alma Concepcion) and is confused whether he will push through
with the scam or admit his feelings for Daisy.
AWARD
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2013 (New Breed Category)
Best Supporting Actor – Joey Paras
8. CHILDREN'S SHOW
Directed by: Derick Cabrido
Inspired by a tv documentary made by
the same director, Children’s Show tells the story of children ages 13-15 being
exploited by a powerful syndicate managing a betting game involving underground
fighting.
AWARDS
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2014 (New Breed Category)
Best Supporting
Actor – Miggs Cuaderno
Best Sound
Best Editing
Canon Award (Best
Cinematography of the Festival)
7. Sundalong kanin
Directed by: Janice O'Hara and Denise
O'Hara
Set during the Japanese Occupation,
four friends (Nitoy, Benny, Carding, and Badong) aspire nothing more than to
become soldiers fighting the Japanese... until they are confronted by the
realities of war that threaten to destroy their families and their friendship.
AWARD
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2014 (New Breed Category)
Audience
Choice award
6. Dagitab
Directed by: Gian Abrahan
While the marriage of two professors
is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving
a young student. On the other hand, the man falls in love with his research --
a deity (supernatural being) that appears to him as the ghost of an old flame.
AWARDS
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2014 (New Breed Category)
Best Screenplay
Best Director
Best Actress – Eula Valdez
5. BWAYA
Directed by: Francis Xavier Pasion
Divina is preparing for her daughter
Rowena’s 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been
attacked by a crocodile, her body still missing. As Divina searches for the
body of her daughter in the marshlands of Agusan del Sur, she learns a lesson
more tragic than her fate: not all predators are underwater. The film is based
on actual events.
AWARDS
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2014 (New Breed Category)
Best Film
Best Cinematography
Best Musical Score
Netpac
Award for New Breed
4. TRANSIT
Directed by: Hannah Espia
The film begins and ends in an airport
during a father and son’s transit flight from Tel Aviv to Manila. It tells
the story of Moises, a Filipino single-dad working as a caregiver in Herzliya,
Israel, who comes home to his apartment in Tel Aviv to celebrate his son
Joshua’s 4th birthday. Itwas on that day that Moises, together with their
Filipino neighbors Janet, and her daughter Yael, find out that the Israeli
government is going todeport children of foreign workers. Afraid of the
new law, Moises and Janet decide to hide their children from the immigration
police by making them stay inside the house.
AWARDS
Cinemalaya Film
Festival 2013 (New Breed Category)
Audience Choice Award
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography
Best Performance by an Actress in a
Supporting Role - Jasmine Curtis-Smith,
Netpac Special Award
Best Performance by a Lead Actress -
Irma Adlawan Certificate of Recognition for
Ensemble Acting - the cast of "Transit"
Best Film
Best Director
3. BARBER'S TALE
Directed by: Jun Robles Lana, DGPI
Barber's Tales is set in the
rural town in the Philippines during the end of Marcos dictatorship, and tells
the story of newly widowed Marilou (Eugene Domingo) who inherits the town's only barbershop from her husband- a
business that has been passed down by generations of men in her husband's
family. With no other means of support, she musters the courage to run the
barbershop. But as to be expected, she fails to attract any customers. But a
touching act of kindness she extended to Rosa, a prostitute who works in the
town brothel, leads to an unexpected opportunity. Rosa, who now considers
Marilou a friend, urges her prostitute friends to pressure their male clientele
into patronizing Marilou's barbershop. The men have no choice but to grudgingly
oblige out of fear that Rosa will expose their infidelity to their wives.
AWARDS
2013 Tokyo International Film Festival
Best Actress - Eugene Domingo
2. Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, the End of History)
Directed by: Lav Diaz
A man is wrongly
jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an
intellectual frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and
apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable
when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.
AWARDS
Cinemanila International Film Festival 2013
Best Director
International Cinephile Society Awards
Best Picture
Nuremberg
International Human Rights Film Festival
Nuremberg
International Human Rights Film Award
Gawad Urian
Best Picture
Best Actress –
Angeli Bayani
Best Cinematography
Best Screenplay
1. OTJ (ON THE JOB)
Directed by: Erik Matti
Filipino crime thriller inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison
inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers
on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.
AWARDS
Famas Awards
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Editing
Best Sound
Best Story
Gawad Urian
Best Actor - Joel Torre
Best Sound
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