命運轉圈圈 (菲律賓/2016/短片/動作/黑色喜劇)
SPIN (PHILIPPINES/2016/SHORTS/ACTION/DARK COMEDY)
PEKTUS
語言：他加祿語
Language: Tagalog
語言：他加祿語
一句話大綱
在一個偶然決定了命運的城市，Yong和Chino所做的選擇，是否能讓他們更接近希冀的救贖？
劇介
《命運轉圈圈》講述了生活在城市裡的兩個男人的一天。他們都帶著傲氣而冷漠，身受環境和生活選擇的束縛。兩人在單行道裡的偶遇，將永遠改變他們的生活。本片對於人們在生活中的選項提出質疑，探索環境與人的選擇，如何才能突破，得到重生的機會。
作家/導演：伊莎貝瑪麗亞魯茲奎薩達
製片：切斯奎薩達，提托奎薩達
製作公司：UP CINEASTE Studio過了多長時間
演員：諾尼布恩卡米諾，喬吉特洛倫索，喬爾薩拉喬，亞歷克斯梅迪納
傑西門多薩，艾洛拉艾斯班諾
影展：
2016年菲律賓獨立電影節最佳短片，伊莎貝瑪麗亞魯茲奎薩達。
2016年菲律賓獨立電影節短片類最佳劇本，伊莎貝瑪麗亞魯茲奎薩達。
2017年菲律賓影評人協會獎，最佳短片入圍，伊莎貝瑪麗亞魯茲奎薩達。
導演
伊莎貝瑪麗亞魯茲奎薩達是一名導演，住在奎松市。她於2015年以優異的成績畢業於菲律賓大學迪里曼分校，獲得電影和視聽傳播學位。她在電視、廣告和電影公司擔任導演、助理導演和剪輯。
她的短片《命運轉圈圈》在2016年菲律賓獨立電影節獲得最佳短片及最佳短片劇本獎，並於2017年入圍菲律賓影評人協會獎最佳短片。
諾尼布恩卡米諾
5次獲獎，22項入圍：菲律賓電影藝術與科學學院獎，菲律賓影藝學院獎（Luna獎），電影之星獎，菲律賓影評人協會獎，青年影評人協會，馬尼拉電影節–菲律賓菲律賓著名演員《Daggitab》（2014）《Ms Granny》（2018）
喬吉特洛倫索
2次獲獎，5項入圍：菲律賓電影藝術與科學學院獎，電影之星獎，菲律賓影評人協會獎-菲律賓攝影師及舞台劇、電視、電影演員《Changing Partners》（2017）《Anatomiya ng korupsiyon》（2011）
評論：
令人滿意、刺激又娛樂的觀影經驗。部分原因是諾尼布恩卡米諾、喬吉特洛倫索等人的精彩表演（本片請來許多大明星飾演小角色），但主要還是情節精確地描繪了現實生活中好與壞的面向。
花絮：
獲獎演員《命運轉圈圈》勞倫斯法哈多是本片的創意顧問。
Logline
In a city where fortunes are determined by chance, will the choices of Yong and
Chino bring them closer to the redemption they so desperately seek in a town
where the law of the jungle prevails?
Synopsis
PEKTUS tells the story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life - and their incidental yet preordained meeting in a one-way alley that would change their lives thereafter. Raising questions of how far people have control over what happens in their lives, the film seeks to explore circumstance versus choice, breaking points, and second chances.
Writer/Director: Isabel Maria Luz Quesada
Producers: Ces Quesada, Tito Quesada
Production Co: Quantum Post, U P Cineastes Studio
Cast: Nonie Buencamino, Jojit Lorenzo, Joel Saracho, Alex Medina
Jess Mendoza, Elora Espano
Festivals:
- Isabel Quesada, Best Short Film, Cinemalaya: Phlippine Independent Film Festival, 2016.
- Isabel Quesada, Best Screenplay – Short Film, Cinemalaya: Phlippine Independent Film Festival, 2016.
- Isabel Quesada, Best Short Film Nominee, Gawad Urian Awards, 2017.
Director
ISABEL MARIA LUZ QUESADA is a filmmaker residing in Quezon City. She graduated cum laude in UP Diliman last 2015 with a degree in Film and Audio-Visual Communication. She now works as a freelance director, assistant director, and editor for various TV, Advertising and Film outfits.
Her short film Pektus won the awards for Best Short Film and Best Short Film Screenplay at the 2016 Cinemalaya Film Festival, and was nominated at the Gawad Urian for Best Short film in 2017.
Nonie Buencamino
- 5 wins and 22 nominations: FAMAS Awards, FAP Awards (Luna Awards), Star Awards For Movies, Gaward Urian Awards, Young Critics Circle, Metro Manila Film Festival – Philippines
- Acclaimed Filipino character actor
- Dagitab (2014)
- Ms Granny (2018)
Jojit Lorenzo
- 2 wins and 5 nominations: FAMAS Awards, Star Awards For Movies, Gaward Urian Awards – Philippines
- A Photographer and a Stage, TV, Film Actor
- Changing Partners (2017)
- Anatomiya ng korupsiyon (2011)
Reviews:
- The result is an immensely satisfying experience, thrilling and entertaining. Part of this is a result of engaging performances by Nonie Buencamino, Jojit Lorenzo and more (the film is attended by a surprising number of well-known, admired actors in small roles); but most of it is simply the pleasure of a story that accurately portrays the good and the bad in real life.
Trivia:
- Lawrence Fajardo (award winning Director) is credited as a creative consultant in Pektus.
