Sa Gabing Tanging Liwanag ay Paniniwala (Belief as the Light in Darkness)
This is a story about the disappearances of people and their identities. Dylan, the son of the town captain Soliman, had seen the missing people and knows where they are. But when Soliman and other townsmen began their search, Dylan knew that they might suffer the same fate. Soliman and his team searches for the missing people with the intention to figure out who’s taking them and where they are being brought to. But when the search failed and Soliman made his way home, Dylan was aware that something was left behind. As days pass by, Soliman’s team would come across bodies that seems to have no souls. But one recovered body is an exchange to another one lost. One dark evening, Dylan knew Soliman had made it home, but it wasn’t his father.
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Dylan Ray TalonKey Cast
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Soliman CruzKey Cast
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Stefanoni NunahKey Cast
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Sheryll CeasicoKey Cast
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Patrizsia ReyesProducer
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Dylan Ray TalonProducer
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Francis GuillermoDirector
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Francis GuillermoWriter
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Ariana NapayProduction Manager
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Rocket RuizCinematographer
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Felipe MaglalangAssistant Director
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Karla SabaySecond Assistant Director
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Ron AlosProduction Designer
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Zaire AndradeEditor
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Francis GuillermoEditor
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Krysver GomezSound Recordist
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CJ MirandaSound Recordist
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Francis GuillermoSound Design
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Juan Arturo BanezCamera Department
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Richmond CadsawanCamera Department
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Richard CanlasCamera Department
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Edward BonCamera Department
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Benedict MarasiganCamera Department
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Celine ArriolaArt Department
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Anna PuenteArt Department
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JC InocLogistics
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Diane CruzWardrobe
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Fantasy Horror
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Runtime:15 minutes
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Completion Date:April 17, 2018
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Production Budget:100 USD
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Country of Origin:Philippines
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Country of Filming:Philippines
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Language:Tagalog
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:7
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - Far Eastern University
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Ika-30 Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at VideoManila
Philippines
August 4, 2018
Honorable Mention -
Sinepiyu 2018Manila
Philippines
April 25, 2018
2nd Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design -
Cine Mapua 2019Manila
Philippines
January 26, 2019
Cardinal Bronze Award, Best Sound, and Best Actor -
Indie Un Film 2018Manila
Philippines
Best Film Pamana Category, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Design -
Cinema Rehiyon 2019Dumaguete
Philippines
Official Selection -
Salamindanaw 2018General Santos
Philippines
Official Selection -
Davao Ngilngig 2018Davao
Philippines
Official Selection -
Maginhawa Film Festival 2018Manila
Philippines
Official Selection -
Diwa Filipino Film Festival of Seattle 2019Seattle
United States
North America Premiere
Official Selection -
Pelikultura 2019Laguna
Philippines
Best Cinematography -
MOV - International Student Film Festival of Pernambuco 2019Recife, Pernambuco
Brazil
June 9, 2019
South America Premiere
Official Selection -
Active Vista Human Rights Film Festival 2018Quezon City
Philippines -
Cinemalaya Short Feature 2019Manila
Philippines
August 2, 2019
Official Selection -
Nabifilmex 7 2019Nabunturan
Philippines
September 26, 2019
Best Production Design, Best Sound Design -
Sinelamdag Film Festival 2019Koronadal
Philippines
Official Selection -
CineKasimanwa: Western Visayas Film Festival 2019Iloilo
Philippines
Best Film -
Festival de Cine Paz Mindanao 2019Zamboanga
Philippines
Pluma de Paz, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Design
On the 21st of September of 1996, a peculiar child was born with primary complex and an urge to never remain at one point. Despite growing up as if the world ran out of air to give, this child never remained still and never saw the world stop. Until one day, he met the Cinemas. Inside where the temperature was different and the surrounding was meant to drown you in darkness, the whole world stopped for three hours as he slowly swims into a new, unidentified, and unfamiliar world. Today he lives in Quezon City, Philippines and has learned to create worlds, bend time, and create fictions to share (and even to keep to his own), within the countless corners of Cinema. Within arm’s reach of the current generation and the next generation of Filipino film makers, Francis Guillermo aims to become a prominent film maker of his own generation.
In a world where truth can be overshadowed by darkness, who do you believe in? What would you believe in? Inspired by the Philippine Mythological Folklore of Tambal, a creature who copies an individual while it leads its victim deep into the woods, this film shows how the identity of Filipinos were lost through a series of fake information as they continuously revolve around the regime of the Marcoses. The continuous disappearance of people and the surrounding mystery to why and how they disappear has created this monster, this fear, who continuously takes victims during the darkest days of this country. If we burn the tree of the Marcoses down, are we sure that no other tree would stand the same? Or perhaps we haven’t burned down the tree to its roots.