Festival Note
In 2010, a group of high-school classmates reunite for a swimming trip, not knowing it’s the last one they’ll ever be fully together. A meditation on death and all things dying. A short film commissioned for the US video release of Cleaners.
Noong 2010, nagsama-sama ang isang grupo ng mga high-school classmate para sa isang swimming trip. Hindi nila alam na ito na ang huli nilang pagkikita. Isang meditasyon tungkol sa pagkamatay, at sa mga bagay na namamatay. Isang maikling pelikula na kinomisyon para sa US video release ng Cleaners.
Glenn Barit is a Filipino filmmaker, sound designer and scorer from Tuguegarao City, Cagayan. He likes to play around with his works because filmmaking is very hard and expensive.
His film “Aliens Ata” won him the NETPAC Jury Prize in the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2017 and has screened in Kaohsiung Film Festival and SEA Shorts among others. “Cleaners”, his debut feature film, won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Audience Choice Award at QCinema IFF Asian Next Wave Section 2019 and has since screened in Busan IFF, Taipei Golden Horse FF and Torino FF among others.