Kapampangan film competes in Cinemalaya Film Festival
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Kapampangan film “Babagwa” (The Spider’s Lair) is competing in the New Breed category of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
The gala premiere of “Babagwa” will be held on July 28 (Sunday), 12:30 pm, at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Pasay. Succeeding screenings will be held not only in CCP, but also in Greenbelt 3, Alabang Town Center, and TriNoMa fromJuly 28 to August 4.
“Babagwa” was written and directed by Kapampangan filmmaker Jason Paul Laxamana, a resident of Angeles City.
It is Laxamana’s second Kapampangan feature film after “Astro Mayabang” in 2010, which competed then in that year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival. Acting as producer is Laxamana’s fellow Angeles resident, Ferdinand Lapuz, who also served as producer is several of Brillante Mendoza’s past films and the internationally-acclaimed “Bwakaw” by Jun Lana from last year’s Cinemalaya.
From all the entries submitted to Cinemalaya last year, “Babagwa” emerged as one of the Top 10 entries to be given a P500,000-seed grant to turn the script into a feature film. All finalists then would compete in Cinemalaya’s New Breed category, the bracket of the film festival where non-veteran filmmakers are competing against one another.
“Babagwa” is a film about an online scammer who falls in love with a rich old maid while trying to swindle her using a fake Facebook profile. The story is inspired by stories of deception in social networking sites like Facebook. “Deception is done online not only to earn money, but also for romantic needs,” Laxamana said. Set mostly in Angeles and nearby places like Dau, Apalit, and Floridablanca, the film’s dialogue is around 2/3 in the Kapampangan language.
The scammer in the story is Greg, who is played by Alex Vincent Medina, one of the stars in ABS-CBN’s primetime series “Ina, Kapatid, Anak.” The son of veteran actor Pen Medina, Alex reveals that their fatherside clan hails from the Pangans of Arayat.
The scammer’s accomplice is Marney, who is played by rising star Joey Paras. Paras acted alongside Dingdong Dantes in the film “Dance of the Steelbars” and will star soon in an upcoming Wenn Deramas film entitled “Bekikang.”
“Babagwa” also marks the comeback of beauty queen/actress Alma Concepcion in the movie scene. In the film, Concepcion plays the role of Daisy, the wealthy old maid who is being swindled by Greg and Marney.
Having his acting debut in the movie is Kiko Matos, who is half-Portuguese, half-Kapampangan. With maternal relatives coming from Capas, Matos could be remembered as one of the finalists in the TV Idol segment of the noontime variety show MTB. His fellow finalists then were Ahron Villena, AJ Dee, and the eventual winner, JE Sison. In “Babagwa,” he plays the role of Bam, the fake online persona being used by Greg and Marney to make unsuspecting homosexuals and ladies fall in love right before they move on to ask for money.
Also worth noting is the acting debut of Angeles Vice Mayor Vicky Vega.
In “Babagwa,” she plays the role of Marney’s mother who lives as an informal settler along Pampanga River in Masantol. Laxamana commends Vega for being a natural in acting and appreciates Vega’s willingness to be deglamorized for the role.
To see the complete schedule of the screening “Babagwa” and for more information about the movie, visitwww.facebook.com/babagwamovie.
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