KAY BASTA ANGKARABO YAY BAGAY IBAT HA LANGIT

KAY BASTA ANGKARABO YAY BAGAY IBAT HA LANGIT
(OBJECTS DO NOT RANDOMLY FALL FROM THE SKY)
by Maria Estela Paiso

10 MINUTES, 16 SECONDS | Docufiction

CAST
Leonardo Cuaresma, Joel Elejorde, Luis Fontilla, Ranel Madela,
Rea Jane Realizo, Noraiza Alog, Moises Dulatre, Sylvia Reyes, Maria Estela Paiso

PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY/EDITOR/STOP-MOTION ANIMATION – Maria Estela Paiso
CINEMATOGRAPHER – Eric Bico
ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE – Kashira
FOLEY ENGINEER – Yügen Bei Bei
SOUND DESIGN – Lawrence S. Ang
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS – Tarzeer Pictures, MalasMalas Studios, Dfarm and Park Inc.
PRODUCER – Gale Osorio
CREATIVE PRODUCER – Keith Deligero
CG ARTIST – Vladimer Castañeto
ONLINE ARTISTS – Shaine Robles, Tricia Bernasor
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – Carl Lara
ASSISTANT CAMERA – Kevin Paguntalan
PRODUCTION MANAGER – Sherwin Robles

LOGLINE
A young girl turns into a fish and recounts the territorial aggression being experienced by the fisherfolk in her hometown Zambales.

SYNOPSIS
Standing by the beach, young Sita confesses to her mother that she almost drowned in these waters when she was a child. In turn, her mother admits that though she grew up by the sea, she never learned how to swim. Sita and her mother turn into half-fish-half-humans and swim through their turbulent past in Zambales, all while listening to the local fisherfolk recount the territorial aggression of China in the West Philippine Sea.

FILMMAKER’S PROFILE

MARIA ESTELA PAISO (PH)forayed into directing in 2021 with her first short Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol (It’s Raining Frogs Outside), and was part of the 2024 Cannes Fortnight Directors’ Factory. Her most recent short, Objects Do Not Randomly Fall From The Sky, is about the fisherfolk in Masinloc and their experience of China’s territorial aggression in the West Philippine Sea. In her free time, she tries to get a 100 at karaoke.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Fusing fragments of Zambales memory, OBJECTS intends to illustrate only one thing: that the Philippines belongs to Filipinos. It drenches various media in a singular shade of blue to refresh existing narratives surrounding Philippine waters, and to hopefully reiterate the innate right of Filipinos to self-determination. As of writing, Zambales fisherfolk are still not allowed to fish within forty nautical miles from Panatag Shoal. OBJECTS tackles Chinese territorial aggression but also poses the question: what do we do about them and all the other imperialists preying on our sovereignty? We drown them, shun them, and uproot the fangs of their greed. Rage comes in all colors. In OBJECTS, it is blue.