Bembol Roco Likely To Make You Cry in What Home Feels Like

Bembol Roco might be the BIGGEST winner so far in the TOFARM Film Festival as he puts on another entry called "What Home Feels Like" by director Joseph Abello. Last year, he did "Pauwi Na" for this same festival and entered the Paulo Villanueva creation to the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival and it won top prize and lauded for the film's humanism and universality. It was entitled "Pedicab" for it's international release albeit being the only Southeast Asian entry to the fest.

"What Home Feels Like" has already made several film critics post on social media how much they cried over the story as it touches on the stories of OFW's which is common in the Philippines. The country has long been sending workers abroad (in his case an aging seaman) and it has affected families to the point of not being recognized by their own kids. Aside from that, the veteran actor will play a Father who chose to put his entire savings to a farm even though his whole family disagrees with this decision, and continues on to work the soil even if it looks impossible to get return of investments, which brought fear to the lives of his family later on. This situation is quite common in the Philippines and will be properly accorded a story when it shows on TOFARM Film Festival this January 12 to 18 with their theater run at SM Megamall, Greenbelt 1, Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Metro East, Gateway Mall on the mentioned dates. 

He will make you cry and treasure your Father more when you watch this masterpiece that also stars Irma Adlawan, and she's another reason why you're eyes would get wet even more.

Support local films, these indie ones during the ToFarm Film Fest and make sure you don't miss another stellar performance by the one and only Bembol Roco. See why he's been lauded in the international award giving bodies and continue to be world class!

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McCoy De Leon Stars in "INSTALADO" for TOFARM Film Festival 2017

He's cute, he can dance, he loves Elise and this time, he can act - as the dashing McCoy De Leon stars in this Jason Laxamana film called INSTALADO. This film is the only weird good, or different entry that caught my eye during the reveal of the 6 entries for TOFARM Film Festival. I said that because this one boils on sci-fi, a genre which is very difficult to connect to the festival's theme. They are also tallking about something that is affecting a lot of Filipino farmers, the next generation, their sons and daughters who had been able to attain education but chose different vocations leaving hundreds of agricultural land to waste and aging farmers.

This controversy has span ages and is the reality. Do you know that the average age of our farmers is 60 years old? That's actually also getting higher and if there's no one doing the farming, there will be no one putting food on the table, nobody tilling the soil, and if that's the case, prices will go high, people will go hungry and we have to import food from other countries like China, Thailand because that's the only way we could supply the demand.

The sci-fi part of this movie is how people are educated, instead of going through school and books for years, a chip can be installed in their brain and do the work. Will this be beneficial to the industry? Or will it be just a nail to the coffin? Aside from McCoy De Leon's character Victor, he is also starring here together with Francis Magundayao and Junjun Quintana. This is going to be a very challenging role for McCoy but here's hoping he would be nominated for an acting award here and in other festivals they plan to put this in. It would be super nice though that the fans could support this early on especially during the run of TOFARM Film Festival. This movie will premier on July 12 at SM Megamall, SM Manila, Greenbelt 1, Gateway, Robinsons Galleria and Robinsons Metroeast. For full schedules, please visit https://www.tofarm.org/tff for more information.

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Watch Spiderman Homecoming with OPPO Today!

I just watched Spiderman Homecoming at the 4DX Cinema in BGC Square. Thanks to our friends from OPPO who gave us a treat including food and games before the movie. 

The movie is a continuation of the story of this young boy and web slinger who recently participated in the Iron Man vs Capt. America war a couple of months back. Remember the time he stole cap's sheild? His dream was to actually be a full time hero, always waited for that opportune time to help but he wasn't summoned as much as he wanted. He was forced to be the friendly neighborhood spiderman. Now I don't want to spoil the story so if you want to watch it for FREE like I did, you just need to follow the simple instructions over at OPPO Philippines Facebook page so you could earn raffle entries, and treat a friend too (for your plus one!). 

Visit http://bit.ly/OPPOSpidey and the winners will be announced on July 12. Only 150 people will win so make sure you join and get your entries in before 11:59pm of July 11!

As for the selfie game, the OPPO F3 Black Edition passed with flying colors!

Thank you Oppo Philippines, it was a super fun night! 

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Ronwaldo Martin Does "BAKLAD" for TOFARM Film Festival

Have you seen Coco Martin's younger brother? He's Ronwaldo Martin and he's been making waves in the indie scene. He's been cast in several movies entered in other festivals locally and even got the top acting award at Harlem Film Festival in New York. Pretty sure, he's been able to veer away from his brother's shadow and true enough.. he's been cast as a young caretaker of a fish pen which is called "Baklad" locally.

"Baklad" is Directed by Topel Lee, an acclaimed film maker of several movies and who recently did "Bloody Crayons" released under Star Cinema. He also did several episodes of Shake Rattle and Roll  which is a movie series produced by film giant Regal Films. 

This is sort of a little sexy, a coming of age film of sorts as the teen fish pen boy gets a little more involved with the fish pen owner's girlfriend, decides to elope, then gets his friends, the people around him into trouble. It also talks about the plight of workers in the fish farm industry, among of which are victims of child labor, a matter that is also less talked about in the Philippines. 

The film stars Rafa Siguion Reyna, Hector Macaso, Jesus Forte, John Vincent Sevilla, Rowena Concepcion, Vincent Magbanua, Royce Cabrera, Raul Morit and Dess Versosa. Ronwaldo Martin will definitely make you see how capable he is and what he's learned from his previous projects. This is the perfect venue to tell this story because ToFarm Film Festival is themed towards these unsung heroes, the farmers who all put food on our table everyday in the Philippines.

"BAKLAD" will be shown July 12-18 at SM Megamall, Greenbelt 1, Robinsons Metro East and Gateway Mall. You should definitely check out the schedules because it's going to be worth it! 

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