PUKPOK

PUKPOK

BY JOAQUIN PANTALEON, STEPHAN DOMINGO, IMMANUEL CANICOSA
SHORT FEATURE CATEGORY

SYNOPSIS:  Mac-Mac stands on the threshold of manhood.  But he must hurdle a case characterized by excessive blood, superstitions, and an old man with failing vision known as Mang Benny.  Will he be able to complete his journey into manhood?  Or will he forever be marooned on the island between manhood and adolescence?

FILMMAKER PROFILE:  Joaquin Pantaleon, 20 years of age, currently going through university working on a degree in Communication Arts and Business Management. His imagination is unearthly, his humour is farcical. A visionary, an idealist, a buccaneer, with every intention to make it “big time” in any field. Wishes that one day, a thousand people will sit down and stare at a screen; laugh, cry, smile, gawk and love in a span of an hour and forty-five minutes, and leave with light heart and a new ambition, with his name at the end of it all that caused it.
 
Stephan Domingo is now starting his life’s work in the field of advertising. Witty and somewhat strange, he is your ever so resilient go-to guy. With a degree of Communication Arts from De La Salle University, Stephan is easily amused with composing imagery and stories through whatever medium he can get his hands on. You’ll often notice him daydreaming while commuting, contemplatively playing around with the words that pop up inside his head. He is a frustrated musician and yearns to be part of a punk rock band that will stir the masses into reformation.

For reasons as mysterious as the location of Atlantis and the disappearances at the Bermuda Triangle, Imman Canicosa found himself taking Communication Arts despite coming from a science high school. He eventually found the arts as an island of placidness amidst a vast sea of chaos, chaos which stems mainly from the never-ending deadlines, the tough task of waking up early in the morning, and his being vertically-challenged. He dreams of seeing Radiohead live in concert, writing for Sports Illustrated, and growing taller than an oak tree.

MAJOR CREDITS:  CAST:  Jomari Sioco, Norman Loteria, Nelwin Buaron, Oliver Torre, Noriebelle Lagunay, Grace Villablanca, Redjie Jimenez, Timothy Obra, Antonio Canicosa III, Ivan Dio CREW: Director and Editor:  Joaquin Pantaleon Writer and Assistant Director: Immanuel Canicosa Producer, Editor and  Audio Director:  Stephan Domingo

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