Exclusive: Fortissimo picks up international rights to Unfriend from Filipino ‘new wave’ auteur Joselito Altarejos
Fortissimo Films has added another auteur title to its growing 2013 release slate with Unfriend from Joselito Altarejos, the Filipino director behind The Game of Juan’s Life, Pink Halo-Halo and Antonio’s Secret, and renowned as one of the innovators of gay cinema in the Philippines.
Fortissimo will represent all rights outside of the Philippines. Local release through Solar Entertainment Corporation is planned for early 2104 while Fortissimo will launch the film internationally later this year.
The deal was negotiated by Fortissimo chairman Michael J Werner together with the film’s executive producers Wilson Tieng, head of distributor Solar Entertainment Corporation, and director Brillante Mendoza.
Set in Manila and based on a recent news story, Unfriend tells the story of a socially isolated teen, David (Sandino Martin) coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with the intense emotions of his first relationship...
Fortissimo Films has added another auteur title to its growing 2013 release slate with Unfriend from Joselito Altarejos, the Filipino director behind The Game of Juan’s Life, Pink Halo-Halo and Antonio’s Secret, and renowned as one of the innovators of gay cinema in the Philippines.
Fortissimo will represent all rights outside of the Philippines. Local release through Solar Entertainment Corporation is planned for early 2104 while Fortissimo will launch the film internationally later this year.
The deal was negotiated by Fortissimo chairman Michael J Werner together with the film’s executive producers Wilson Tieng, head of distributor Solar Entertainment Corporation, and director Brillante Mendoza.
Set in Manila and based on a recent news story, Unfriend tells the story of a socially isolated teen, David (Sandino Martin) coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with the intense emotions of his first relationship...
- 8/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Fortissimo picks up international rights to Unfriend from Filipino ‘new wave’ auteur Joselito Altarejos
Fortissimo Films has added another auteur title to its growing 2013 release slate with Unfriend from Joselito Altarejos, the Filipino director behind The Game of Juan’s Life, Pink Halo-Halo and Antonio’s Secret, and renowned as one of the innovators of gay cinema in the Philippines.
Fortissimo will represent all rights outside of the Philippines. Local release through Solar Entertainment Corporation is planned for early 2104 while Fortissimo will launch the film internationally later this year.
The deal was negotiated by Fortissimo chairman Michael J Werner together with the film’s executive producers Wilson Tieng, head of distributor Solar Entertainment Corporation, and director Brillante Mendoza.
Set in Manila and based on a recent news story, Unfriend tells the story of a socially isolated teen, David (Sandino Martin) coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with the intense emotions of his first relationship...
Fortissimo Films has added another auteur title to its growing 2013 release slate with Unfriend from Joselito Altarejos, the Filipino director behind The Game of Juan’s Life, Pink Halo-Halo and Antonio’s Secret, and renowned as one of the innovators of gay cinema in the Philippines.
Fortissimo will represent all rights outside of the Philippines. Local release through Solar Entertainment Corporation is planned for early 2104 while Fortissimo will launch the film internationally later this year.
The deal was negotiated by Fortissimo chairman Michael J Werner together with the film’s executive producers Wilson Tieng, head of distributor Solar Entertainment Corporation, and director Brillante Mendoza.
Set in Manila and based on a recent news story, Unfriend tells the story of a socially isolated teen, David (Sandino Martin) coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with the intense emotions of his first relationship...
- 8/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
I cannot imagine Pink Halo-Halo being directed by anyone but Joselito Altarejos. Altarejos, who has made a name for himself in Philippine cinema as one of headliners of the burgeoning and bursting gay genre with such films like Ang Lalake sa Parola (The Man in the Lighthouse, 2007), Ang Lihim ni Antonio (Antonio's Secret, 2008) and Ang Laro ng Buhay ni Juan (The Game of Juan's Life, 2009). The film, about a boy (Paolo Constantino) whose father (Allen Dizon), a soldier, is detailed to war-torn Mindanao to keep the peace during a special elections, is inspired from Altarejos' own childhood, one that has been marked by the loss of a father, also a soldier, who was killed in the service of the country.
Set in Altarejos' native Masbate, Pink Halo-Halo opens with a row of soldiers jogging amidst a serene backdrop of the province. Several boys, running and carrying toy guns, follow suit.
Set in Altarejos' native Masbate, Pink Halo-Halo opens with a row of soldiers jogging amidst a serene backdrop of the province. Several boys, running and carrying toy guns, follow suit.
- 8/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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