Thank you NCCA, Unitel, Filmex, Engine Room, Optima, Marikina City government, and Marikina Riverbanks

Thank you so much for making this film possible:

Pera-perahang Lata Copyright

It's official! :D

Behind the Lens: Nilo (Day 1 Shoot)

Looking From Behind... Day 1

Principal Photography - Day 1

Day 1 Shoot Storyboarding

Both graduates of De La Salle University and both being animators, Ramon del Prado and Dave Navarro made the storyboard for the "Pera-perahang Lata."


Ramon is a core group member of Tuldok Animation Studios and taking up his MFA at the School of Visual Arts. He also directed award-winning short animated films including "Egg," "I Am the Superhero," "Putek," "Dok," and "Libingan."

Dave currently works as a sound engineer and voice talent at Hit Productions.

Pera-perahang Lata Pre-prod for Day 1

Pera-perahang Lata Workshop for Day 1 Shoot

Workshop, getting-to-know, and bonding moments for the staff and cast (many secrets were revealed wehehe!)

Von Arroyo as Nilo
Judith Soriao as Gary's mom
Dante Balois as Gary's dad
Jocel Vergel de Dios as Gary's sister

Venue: Boardroom of the Avignon Tower, dela Costa St. Makati City
You also see my AD Karla Pambid and my casting coordinator Gigi Pirote (both very talented actresses I have worked with before) facing each other at the lower right side. Bor Ocampo is there too... bit playing as a lover with his girlfriend in the film Ayeen Pineda (who took all these pix as well hehe!)

Pera-perahang Lata Voice Recording of Nilo's Mom and Sister Characters

Gigi Pirote as Nilo's mom
Noemi Oineza as Nilo's little sister
Sound engineer: Philip Arvin Jarilla


Special thanks to:

Hit Productions
Dennis Cham, Senior Partner and Technical Director
Brian Cua, Senior Partner and Creative Director
Salomon Malca, Senior Partner and CFO
Vic Icasas, President and Managing partner
Eric Adorable, Director of Audio Engineering
Leticia Sarmiento, Traffic Manager
Vener Ariston, Transfer Technician
Dave Navarro, Audio Engineer
RJ Mortega, Audio Engineer
Philip Arvin Jarilla, Audio Engineer

Auditions for the Film

The dates Aug. 17 and 18, 2007 were stormy days... Good to know many came to the auditions still :D

Locations for Day 1 Shoot (Nilo's and Gary's Apartments, Wake Sequence)

We found the best locations for the film!!! We love Marikina City!


Special thanks to:

San Roque Barangay Hall (Brgy. Capt. Benjamin Cruz)

A Day After Pera-perahang Lata Day 1 Shoot

I have never updated much of this blog since I signed the MOA for my film grant. Well, after signing it last Aug. 2, 2007 at the NCCA, I had to focus on the pre-prod since I needed to shoot on Sept. 2 - yeah, exactly 1 month after. For the record, this is the shortest pre-prod I'm doin as a filmmaker. Really tough. I had exactly one month to do loc scouting, oculars, marketing, conducting auditions, workshops, pre-prod meetings, doing my pegs, making the storyboard, securing permits, and all other pre-prod stuff (all while documenting all the works as much as I could).

Today is Sept. 3, 2007. Day after my shoot. 6:50 p. m. I haven't had enough sleep and rest yet. I had class the entire day. Filmmaker yesterday, teacher today. :D Funny, one of my students brought that thing medical people use to measure blood pressure. haha! mine is 80/70. yeah. stress. I need to sleep first to recover. But hey, I'm home now. But I'm not yet sleepy. Had to work on stuff din. Ahehe! Anyway, since Day 1 is now accomplished, I can probably update this a bit with some pics or videos of the pre-prod and the Day 1 shoot of the film. I just have to get back on my work stuff and find time to get back to blogging then. =p

Yesterday was a blast. Another tough day. But when you love what you do, no matter how hard things become at certain aspects of it, you know you'll get through. Thanks to all who made this film possible! Day 2 shoot on December!!!

Casting Call for Short Film Pera-perahang Lata

Casting Call for Short Film Pera-perahang Lata (a film by Rianne Hill Soriano), NCCA Grant

Aug. 17 (Friday) and Aug. 18 (Saturday), 2007, 1pm-530pm at the Boardroom of the Avignon Tower 144 H. V. dela Costa St. Salcedo Village, Makati City (the building next Mcdo Valero-dela Costa, facing Mcdo, left side).

Pls. text Gigi to arrange schedule at 09193399053. Hope you can pass to actor/actress friends. Thanks!

Characters:

Nilo
24-year old struggling, introvert, and critical man and breadwinner of the family (his mother and two siblings) who travels his way going to work and back home everyday and sees through the different people inside the jeep and the different sights along the highways.

Gary
Nilo’s good friend and co-worker. In his late 20’s, medium built, a jester and an extrovert type. The struggling Manila-born Gary comes from a big family of 8 children (the 5th child of the family). He is a very family-oriented guy who serves as a principled comic jester of the family and his co-workers.

Juda
The large-built Juda is the arrogant substitute to the permanent supervisor of the factory who is under maternity leave. The egotistic attitude of this bully-type man becomes the root of fight inside the factory.

Adult beggar
The adult beggar who was given alms by Nilo that morning turns out to be a beggar, and at the same time, an alcoholic and addict, a parasite of the society.

Mae
Nilo’s 8-year old sister who has a very cute voice on the phone. Makulit and active type, she calls her kuya to ask for money for the exchange gift.

Nilo’s mother
Nilo’s sickly, quite melodramatic mother

Gary’s mother
A longing mother full of hurting moments for her son.

Gary’s father
A longing father full of grief.

Gary’s sister
Gary’s sister who calms her mother during her lowest point.

Beggar boy
The beggar boy who desperately asks for alms or food to Nilo for his starving and dying mother. His painstakingly harsh condition puts guilt on Nilo upon seeing one shocking moment.

Beggar mother
The beggar boy’s sick and starving mother.

Boss
The firm boss whose voice reverberates in the whole place when making his speech, but at the latter part, it turns out he has some loose and comic side, too.

Boss’ wife
The boss’ stern, quite bulky, and all dressed up wife who turns out to have some loose and comic side, too.

Carinderia owner
The Filipina-Chinese owner of the newly-opened carinderia near the factory where Nilo works.

Pare 1 and Pare 2
Two middle-aged men wearing the typical pambahay clothes. They are seriously discussing the state of the Philippines inside the jeep as if they are intellectuals (but each of them turns out more comic than intellectual).

Drunk maniac
The drunk maniac who tries to take advantage of a woman beside Nilo while inside the jeep.

Snatcher
The snatcher who robs the purse of the woman with umbrella (the woman who also became the victim of the maniac inside the jeep Nilo rides).

Policeman
The policeman who interviews the father of the murdered guy during his wake.

URGENT: We need help for our locations for a new film (factory, church, funeraria, lower-middle class apartment) to be shot on September

In line with the new independent short film (a film grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts) we are shooting on Sept. 2, 2007 and December 2007, I would like to ask your help in getting the right locations for the film. Due to certain turn of events, we are officially starting pre-prod today and we have less than a month for pre-prod in order to shoot the film. And so, we are seeking your help and suggestions for the following locations that we need:

- A small-, medium- or large-scale factory (within the vicinity of Metro Manila) that is primarily manufacturing such products as milk or soda or any other canned goods.
- A cinematic church or chapel with a grand opening of the Simbang Gabi this coming Dec. 16 (if possible, if we can also get the contact person and contact numbers of maybe the parish priest and administrative people of the church so we can further discuss our plans and intentions)
- A lower-middle class small house where we can shoot a “burol” scene inside the house and extend the seats and giving of “tong,” etc. outside the house. If anybody can help as in getting the art requirements for a “burol” scene as well like a funeraria where we can rent a coffin, some lights, and the rest of the stuff we normally seen during a “burol,” and maybe flowers too, we would gladly appreciate these things really.
- An apartment with a window and door beside each other and the window showing the outside of the apartment

If you have any idea for these locations that we need, or maybe you own any of these, kindly email at svelte_rianne@yahoo.com or text at 0920-9273651 so that we can discuss the possibilities of getting your place as location. We would really appreciate your suggestions. We are paying the locations and we will fix the permits needed, but we hope that you would understand that we cannot provide the commercial rates that others get for a TV commercial, mainstream film, or a TV production. We are allotting a budget for our locations, but it wouldn’t be as high as the likes of getting a location for an advertising project. With regards to the factory, and if it’s okay, with the church location, possible x-deals and media mileage can be something to consider as well upon further discussion of such possibilities. We really need these locations “super-urgent.” Thank you very much for your time!


Sincerely,
Rianne

Welcome!

I have a lot of concepts in my treasure box and finally I have finished the script of one of them.

I am making this blog for the making of my new short film "Pera-perahang Lata." I am finishing my final script now. Copyright, production staff, pre-production... We're shooting the film in five months.

It will be a real busy and yet exciting Christmas 2007 for us! :) Weeeee!!!