in celebration of ITI MAPUKPUKAW’sbox office success and BEST FILM victory at the 19th cinemalaya film festival, here’s a thread consisting of 15 films to celebrate ph cinema’s most underserved cinematic medium—animation.
⊹₊ ⋆ animation in philippine cinema, a thread:
disclaimer: i actually based this thread off a pre-existing film list by letterboxd user @/pelikula, who has compiled filipino animated works, both feature-length and short films. (doing the lord's work) 🙏
feel free to check it out! boxd.it/sXR6
iti mapukpukaw "the missing" (carl joseph papa, 2023)
• the very first full-length animated film entry to compete in cinemalaya
• the story of eric, a mouthless young man who untangles memories from his childhood in the wake of his uncle’s death.
• had 90+ animators involved
manang biring (carl joseph papa, 2015)
• carl papa's debut film
• a comedy-drama featuring a feisty old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise until she learns of her long-estranged daughter’s return from abroad.
• iwanttfc (streamable for free)
paglisan (carl joseph papa, 2018)
• carl papa's sophomore film
• an animated musical dramedy
• crisanto and dolores's marriage is falling apart. it is even more tested when crisanto is diagnosed with early-onset alzheimer's disease.
• stars eula valdez & ian veneracion
hayop ka! the nimfa dimaano story (avid liongoren, 2020)
• follows an attractive feline saleslady at a department store as she figures in a love triangle between her mongrel janitor boyfriend and her high society business dog.
• stars angelica panganiban as the lead
• netflix
saving sally (avid liongoren, 2016)
• an entry on the metro manila film festival 2016
• a tale of unrequited teenage love terrorized by giant animated monsters in the chaotic streets of metro manila.
• stars rhian ramos & enzo marcos
• netflix
urduja (reggie entienza, 2008)
• set in the 13th century, the animated film is a fictionalized tale of princess urduja, a legendary warrior princess of pangasinan.
• regine velasquez as the voice of princess urduja
dayo (robert quilao, 2008)
• the philippines' first all-digital, full-length animated feature film
• mmff 2008 entry
• follows the adventure of 11-year-old bubuy as he tries to save his grandparents who have been abducted to elementalia, a mysterious and magical land.
rpg metanoia (luiz suarez, 2010)
• mmff 2010 entry
• a group of kids seeks refuge from the mundane world by playing an online video game. but when a deadly virus starts blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, the kids must step up to defeat the virus.
• iwanttfc
cleaners (glenn barit, 2019)
• a rotoscope & stop-motion animation film (printed each frame, photocopied, used highlighters, scanned, and assembled them back into a movie)
• a filipino coming-of-age film about a high school cleaners group for the school year 2007-2008.
some animated short films!
lola loleng (che tagyamon, 2017)
• a young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her grandmother loleng—a distant relative and a senile parol (christmas lantern) artisan.
• link: https://t.co/HT4rH4mmFX
ella arcangel: oyayi sa dilim (mervin malonzo, 2021)
• based on julius villanueva's comics, ella arcangel is a series of stories set in a strange community called barangay masikap where both humans & monsters struggle for survival.
• link: https://t.co/inbMc4BrQf
maski papano (glenn barit & che tagyamon, 2020)
• after getting disposed of, a facemask turns into a humanoid figure while looking for its previous owner. it then wanders around different places in manila and starts an adventure.
• link: https://t.co/DNqxbbrRbs
kinalimutan natin ang mga bata (gilb baldoza, 2017)
• a recollection of violence and truth, 46 years after the late dictator ferdinand marcos declared martial law in the philippines.
• link: https://t.co/03WyJb2LJ3
mga ulap tayong nagiging ulan (demetrio e. celestino iii, 2021)
• an anthropomorphic cloud shares how it achieves small wins in this natural cycle of life, one that dwells on the commonality that suggests "mga ulap tayong nagging ulan."
• link: https://t.co/T0p3k6RP9Xjuanflix.com.ph/search?q=mga+u…
ang mga sisiw sa kagubatan (vahn pascual, 2022)
• due to the persistent presence of a hungry monster in their town, a chick living in the forest strives to live peacefully together with its own community.
• please DM direk @vahnpascual to give you a private link to his film!
oops. may erratum pala akong for manang biring (2015). pasensya na!
it is carl papa’s first animated film. 💯
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