Boni, a little boy from the slums, squares off with the stark reality of drugs, petty crime and abuse armed with his own brand of hip hop and some divine intervention.
Filmmaker’s Profile
Rommel Tolentino aka Milo is a visual artist who excels in fine-art and commercial photography, graphic design and filmmaking. He is a Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival multi - awardee, and the first Filipino filmmaker to win in the very prestigious Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France [2009] and to take the SONJE Award in the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea [2008]. He is also a 2009 Gawad Urian winner as well as a recipient of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Award in 2008 [through the Cinemanila International Film Festival], Kidlat Tahimik’s Bamboo Camera Award in 2009, and PIFF Asian Cinema Fund Script Development grant also in 2009. He was recently awarded a Special Citation by the National Council For Children’s Television and the Philippines’ Department of Education for his contribution in creating child-friendly and child-focused films. He took up Communication Arts at the University of Santo Tomas and later took film classes at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, Diliman. He made his first film in 2004 and hasn’t stopped ever since. He directs, writes, photographs, edits, designs, and produces most of his films.
Major Credits: Cast:
John Michael Soriano as Boni, Catherine Soriano as Mother, Vei Ortiz as Tito, Bill Mamorno as the Little Boy in Red, Axle Francisco as the Bystander.
Production:
Writer/Director/Cinematographer/ Editor/Production and Sound Design -Milo Tolentino, Associate Producer-Toti Reyes,Prop Master-Herald Corpus, 2nd Camera Operators-Karr Cotamora and Uly Felicio, Producers-YellowKite Film Productionsand StudioIndio
