Local Title: Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol
After Maya goes home to Zambales due to the impending end of the world, she realizes that her childhood home is watching her. Because it’s raining frogs outside, she stays at home and is tormented by the house. Maya eventually wonders if the house is still worth escaping if the world outside is already ending.
Maria Estela Paiso has been in post-production since 2016 and has edited two feature films and several shorts. The themes of her personal projects revolve around memory and often use techniques that attempt to make tangible what has already passed. Her post-production background plays a major role in her DIY shorts and music videos. In 2021, she forayed into directing with her short film Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol. In between dreaming about the films she wants to make, she spends her free time trying to get a 100 at karaoke and watching the downpour of frogs outside her window.
Jake is a high school teenager in Pagadian, a town too small for him. He lives with his mother and keeps his circle small by only hanging out with Marco and their two other friends. However, at night, he secretly spends his time on the internet with a mature man whose face he still hasn’t seen yet. When this stranger finally promises that he’ll reveal his face the day after, Jake couldn’t contain his excitement but must only keep it to himself.
Trishtan Perez is a filmmaker from Pagadian City and is a graduate of the University of the Philippines with a degree in Film. He is the director of short films like Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (2018) and The Man Who Isn’t There and other Stories of Longing (2019) which recently received the Special Citation award in Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino: Sine Isla Luzviminda. He is a fellow of the Ricky Lee Scriptwriting Workshop and Mindanao Film Lab. His latest project i get so sad sometimes was developed under the Objectifs Short Film Incubator in 2020.