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Crazy and heartwarming!

Finding happiness isn’t part of Tikyo’s everyday plan. For him, at the age of 50, nothing is as simple as selling sorbetes, his only source of living. Everything’s just perfectly fine.

Until, breaking news comes—his mother, whom he believed, for so long, was already in heaven, is still alive. Dogged and eager, Tikyo will do everything to reconcile with the woman he loves the most—from the long queue in the TV studio to the chaotic newsroom of a radio station to the lunatic and hysterical fortune teller. Every effort, he does with the help of his best bud, Nene, the neglected child of the tenement.

His world will be lost in confusion when the girl of his dreams comes, Sara, fresh and charming. The 50-year old guy is now torn between finding his mom and pursuing the young woman’s heart. Tikyo believes that true happiness will come to him if he’ll be successful in winning the two women. Tikyo must find his way to happiness, lead other people to it or redefine its true meaning.


FLORIDA M. BAUTISTA is a Mass Communication graduate of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. She directed the music video Pretend I Don’t Love You which won Metropop’s First Music Video Making Contest. She took an Acting Workshop for Film and TV at ABS-CBN and a Playwriting Workshop at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She worked for ABS-CBN TV Production and is now a freelance Production Manager.

REAL S. FLORIDO is currently working as a junior writer for GMA 7 entertainment tv. He was assistant director of icu bed # 7 which was one of the nine finalists in the 2005 Cinemalaya. He has worked for various music videos and AVPs for Furball Inc. He is currently part of Mediarevolutions Productions’ creative and concept development group.


Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a land lady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male costumer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth.

When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnectedness of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.


NICK JOSEPH OLANKA is a graduating student of Film and Audio Visual Communication from the UP College of Mass Communication in Diliman. He has taken workshops in cinematography, photography and theater. For the UP Repertory Company, he directed Haplos ng Dahas, Sa Ngalan ng Ama, Sino Ba Kayo, New Yorker in Tondo, Parokyano and Ang Paglilitis Ni Mang Serapio. In film and video, he was director, writer and producer of Lunes ng Hapis, Happy Birthday Millie and Drive. He worked as production assistant for FILMEX under his summer internship program in 2004. His short film Lunes ng Hapis won the 2005 Kodak Film School Competition and is the Philippine entry for the Asia-Pacific Kodak Film School Competition.


A 14-year old Batad Boy, a high school dropout, is forced to sell produce in the Banawe market to augment the family income while his father pursues the philantrophic mission of repairing the rice terraces of adjoining Ifugao villages. Exposed to Western modernization in Banawe, the boy obsesses with owning a pair of rubber shoes that he does not really need. In pursuit of his dream sneakers, he takes on all odd jobs imaginable and ultimately becomes a tour guide. During one of his tours, he barters his guide fee for a pair of shoes which are, however, too big for him. Upon possessing the long-desired rubber shoes, he attempts to leave his Ifugao roots and chase big city dreams.


BENJI GARCIA is a freelance producer of TV commercials. For the past 10 years, he has produced and directed numerous radio and TV commercials and many corporate films and documentaries. He has acted, written, produced and directed for theater and television. He has also done production design for films. He was art director for the TV historical drama Alab ng Lahi, the La Aunor TV series and for Ishmael Bernal’s acclaimed film Himala. He was production designer for Mel Chionglo’s Teenage Marriage, Edgardo Reyes’ Bulaklak ng Apoy and J. Erastheo Navoa’s Manoy, Di Ka Na Makaka-isa. He is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University where he earned an AB Communication Arts Degree, with honorable mention. He took courses at the London International Film School.

VIC ACEDILLO JR. is a Creative Director of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi. For the past ten years, he has authored numerous print and TV commercials, working with almost all local TV commercial directors. Some of his works have won local awards and have become finalists in international award-giving bodies. He paints and writes children's stories. He dreams of making a feature film about Filipino tribal children and this is where the concept of Sa Paang Palay was born.


Doring is a 24-year old girl who is engaged in a sport that is not common to Filipino women—boxing. This in her desire to alleviate her family from poverty which is slowly devouring them. Her mother Idang is a fish vendor whose hope she leaves on to God. Her brother Aloy is a cynical teenager who is hopeless about the future and just going with the flow of the times. Her youngest sibling Uno is fast growing up discovering the stark realities of life and is slowly losing his innocence.

Desperate and tired of living a miserable life and working in a palengke, Doring enters into amateur boxing in the hope of being discovered and go big time in the professional level.

This is not just a fight for her dream but a battle of survival for her family.


DADO C. LUMIBAO is currently head writer of ABS-CBN’s Maalaala Mo Kaya. He majored in Journalism at the University of Sto. Tomas. He was Head writer for Mangarap Ka, Darating ang Umaga, Senior Writer of Pangako sa ‘Yo and Writer for Esperanza and Mara Clara. He was also Concept Development Head of Vietnam Rose. He has also written for different drama anthologies and mini series since 1991. These include Nginig, Wansapanataym, The Maricel Drama Special, Mr. Kupido, Judy Ann Drama Special, Star Drama Theater, Ipaglaban Mo, Davao, Young Love, Mother Studio Presents, Viva Spotlight, Petabisyon, Viva Drama Special. His film credits include Esperanza, The Movie (Star Cinema), Sana Naman (Regal Films), Nasaan Ka Nang Kailangan Kita (Regal Films) and Kahit Minsan Lang (Regal Films). He was a finalist in the 1991 FPJ Scriptwriting Workshop.

ALEJANDRO “BONG” RAMOS is a graduate of BS Civil Engineering at the Far Eastern University. He is an ABS-CBN writer of telenovelas like Vietnam Rose, Mangarap Ka, Sa Puso Ko Iingatan Ka and drama anthologies like The Maricel Drama Special. He has line-produced films like Room Boy by Alfred Aloysius Adlawan which was a finalist in the full length feature category of the 2005 Cinemalaya; Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan by Lav Diaz, Pila Balde by Jeffrey Jeturian, Kriminal ng Bo. Concepcion by Lav Diaz.


Inside the Fernando house, nobody talks. Lives are kept to themselves; problems are not shared; questions are not entertained. The people living inside it have become used to leaving everything unstirred especially Margaret, the mother of the home.

Margaret’s desire for cleanliness and order alienates her from her family. She cannot confront the problems of her life and so she confronts dirty dishes, ugly stains, and disorderly appliances. To get to know her family, she snoops around - entering rooms, opening cabinets, reading journals she is not supposed to read.

But everything changes when a journal entry of her daughter’s makes her unravel, stirring the unstirred life that she has held on to for years.


ARAH JELL G. BADAYOS is an undergraduate student of Film and Audio Visual Communications at U.P. Diliman. She has attended workshops in writing, photography and directing. She has written for ABS CBN productions Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay (2003), Mangarap Ka (2004) and Star Cinema’s All About Love, which is currently in production. She is a writer for ABS-CBN’s Vietnam Rose.

MARGARET G. GUZMAN is a graduate of Theater Arts in U.P. Diliman. She studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy and has been directing music videos and theater productions.


Beginning at the break of dawn and ending the next morning, the story, set around a rugged city intersection, follows the path of a marked one-thousand-peso bill as it transfers from one character to another, returning to its originator in the end, blood-tainted. The money leads us to each of the five offbeat characters, all in desperate need of their soul’s redemption: a disillusioned tabloid reporter planning to commit suicide in a motel, a nightclub dancer con prostitute who has avowed to give her kid sister a better life, a fallen henchman resurfacing to score big time, a chronic runaway teenage girl held captive as sex slave by a cop, and a long-suffering son bearing a sadomasochistic relationship with his brutish, half-paralyzed father who behaves like a mad dictator in his wheelchair. Like a ticking time bomb, the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end with a tabloid front-pager triple homicide where death seems to have come full circle.


RON BRYANT wrote and directed Baryoke, which was a finalist in the full length feature category and winner of the Best Cinematography Award in the 2005 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival and Competition.

A Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering graduate of the University of the East, Ron worked in the Creative Department of Star Cinema Inc. from 2000 to 2003. He was a writer for ABS-CBN’s soap opera “Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay and wrote for films such as Virgin People 3, directed by Celso Ad Castillo and Sanib, produced by MAQ Productions Inc. He wrote the screenplay of Buhay ay Langit, a finalist in the 1999 Film Development Foundation of the Philippines Scriptwriting Contest. He was writer/co-director and digital cinematographer for Sidra, a short digifilm based on the short story Naked Eye by Bienvenido Santos, as well as Ruptura, a full-length digital feature for the 4th CCP Filipino Full–Length Indie Feature Festival and Workshop in 2003. His book entitled Navotas: Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas was launched last January 11, 2006.


TULAD NG DATI follows the current exploits of the Filipino rock band, The Dawn, composed of Teddy Diaz, JB Leonor, Caloy Balcells and Jett Pangan. During the second half of the 1980s, the band had risen to become the most influential musical rock group of the time. At the height of their popularity, their leader, Teddy Diaz is murdered. The remaining members decide to continue on with the music but eventually disband in 1996. In 2003, The Dawn reunited.

Tulad ng Dati starts in 2006. It revolves around the character of Jett Pangan who is nearing his forties. Jett has lost his passion for music and life and entertains thoughts of retiring from the band. On a fateful night, Jett is assaulted by a burglar and goes into a coma. He wakes up with no memory of his life after 1988. He remembers that he is 20 years old and is at the peak of his career with The Dawn. Not satisfied with how things turned out with his life, he tries to change everything back to to the way it used to be. The path he takes while finding his place in this strange new world proves itself to be a tough, emotional, and sometimes hilarious journey—accompanied by the celebrated music of The Dawn, both past and present.


MICHAEL SANDEJAS was line producer for the following films: Homecoming by Gil Portes, Hesus, Rebolusyonaryo by Lav Diaz, Gatas, Sa Dibdib ng Kaaway by Gil Portes. He was Associate Line Producer for Gil Portes’ Huwag Kang Kikibo and Associate Producer for Gil Portes’ Saranggola. He was also production manager for Mike de Leon’s Bayaning 3rd World. Michael has also done work as a producer of TV/Video/Commercials.