My last film "Amigo" coming soon

Synopsis:
An American invasion of a foreign country. A battle for hearts and minds. A pacification programme to quell an insurgency. Guerrilla warfare. Firefights. Sound familiar? Well, yes and no. Über-indie American filmmaker John Sayles winds the clock back to 1900 and the US occupation of the Philippines in his brave new film, Amigo. Sayles finds many parallels behind this little-remembered event in history and current events in Iraq and Afghanistan. As always, this most singular of directors provides a clear, lucid and dramatically compelling portrait and analysis of American colonization and the latent imperialism behind some of its wars.



Please come and watch the film "Amigo", directed by American director John Sayles. Fully shot in Bohol, Philippines. I line-produced this film before I left for Holland.This is the last production I was involved in the Philippines.
It showing now in Toronto, San Sebastian, London Film Festival and will be shown in the Philippines by February next year. I am very proud of this film as it was a full Filipino-American co-production. The director John Sayles and his wife/producer Maggie Renzi are wonderful People. Co-producers, Joel Torre and Mario Ontal were wonderful as well.

weekend trip to germany

we went to flekenbert, schmallenberg germany to see Fritz's roots, his ancestors lived in this small village. we decided to spend the weekend there. we found lots of kohle's!

and here are some images of the trip

Cows staring at us:


smoky landscape (i wanted to sing--the hills are alive, with the sound of music.....)

and some hiking around the area (reminds me of huckleberry finn!)


And of all places, we found a german-philippine snack place in the middle of nowhere--winterberg germany! funny really!

IBC weekend

So today, we went to Amsterdam to the IBC International Broadcasting Convention---to see the new toys/technological gadgets for electronic broadcasting.



The big thing now is everyone is on 3D! Look at these cameras!





Even the little canon 1ccd cameras can do 3D now!



And see this, where they use the canon DSLR as HD video camera!


And these are the boys(men i mean) with me.

dutch spa

going to a dutch or german spa (therme sauna) always doesnt fail to shock me. being brought in a conservative asian nation, we were always taught to dress conservatively--even bikinis are a no-no, unless you have a really great body--or you are ok to be stared and ogled at.
but going to a mixed spa where men and women share the same dressing room, toilet, walking around naked, going together naked in a sauna, swimming naked and even walking naked outdoors---it takes getting used to---but also feels very liberating, especially when there is no malice involved and it is just natural to be doing it.
it was also my first time to have a male masseur! (a man and a cute one at that) do a massage for me. It felt weird, but at the same time i just told him---just massage my back and shoulders please! and it was still a good massage, but of course i was so conscious of myself and kind of thinking of maybe he will try to touch my boobs or something, but of course he was a professional and it was a nice normal massage. i actually felt more pampered than usual.

but i do not think i am ready to see a colleague in a spa yet. that would indeed be weird!

on another note, an old friend of mine, Tine from PEMSEA, visited me in Breda, together with her german boyfriend, max.



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More Italy Pictures!

South Italy Vacation!

party of dante

Brillante Mendoza's golden birthday party
the filmmakers from left, kints, donna, sherad, brillante, raya, adolfo, nonoy khavn, jerome.