PALIT-ULO | A CinePulitika 2024 Short Film

POLSC 21 Section A Group 1's entry to the 2024 CinePulitika Film Festival of the Ateneo de Manila University. (CinePulitika is the final assessment for all students taking the POLSC 21, or Philippine Politics and Governance, subject. This year's theme for CinePulitika was "Sagigilid: Stories from the Margins." There was a total of 18 films from six sections.)
Nominee for Best Music and Sounds
Nominee for Best Actress (AD Macarubbo as Delilah dela Cruz)
Nominee for Best Film
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During President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines, a family loses one of its key pillars from a tokhang-but what happens after? We follow the dela Cruz family immediately after they’ve just experienced this very breed of tragedy, seeing firsthand just how each member reacts and copes, how the distrust and paranoia splinters them unlike even before. We see them collapse and fall into the deep, dark depths of depression and anger and anguish. Will they pick up the pieces and continue with life or will they let this tragedy completely consume them?
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Directed & Edited by SETH CAMPOS
Asst. Directed by MERVIN AUDET SUETOS
Written by SETH CAMPOS & FORD ORLINA
Cinematography by BEA OPEÑA
Script Editors: ALFRED TIMOTHY CORPUZ, JB SAN MIGUEL, & ALEXANDRA KAYE NOBLE
Script Researchers: LEKXIE CASTAÑOS, ALFRED TIMOTHY CORPUZ, & ASHLEY REESE GARAY
Production Assistants: LEKXIE CASTAÑOS & FRANCESCA TUBO
Location Coordinator: JB SAN MIGUEL
Camera Assistant: MERVIN AUDET SUETOS
Storyboard Artist: SETH CAMPOS
Poster Design by VINCE LAUDE & FRANCESCA TUBO
= = = = = = = CAST = = = = = = =
(in order of appearance)
VINCE LAUDE................................Alex dela Cruz
FRANCESCA TUBO.......................Roseanne dela Cruz
AD MACARUBBO..........................Delilah dela Cruz
JB SAN MIGUEL...........................Malachi dela Cruz
FORD ORLINA...............................Officer Reyes
MERVIN AUDET SUETOS.............Reporter on Radio 1
FORD ORLINA...............................Police Officer on Radio 1
SETH CAMPOS.............................Police Officer on Radio 2
ALEXANDRA KAYE NOBLE..........Reporter on Radio 2
SETH CAMPOS.............................Pedestrians
LEKXIE CASTAÑOS
ALFRED TIMOTHY CORPUZ.........Student
MERVIN AUDET SUETOS..............Tricia
= = = = = = = MUSIC USED = = = = = = =
(in chronological order)
"Darkness of Light" by Secession Studios
"Mga Praning" by FrancisM
"Homelander in Hallway" by Christopher Lennertz
"Atlantean Twilight" by Kevin MacLeod
"There is Romance" by Kevin MacLeod
"putting a spin on hey there delilah" by egg