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EXCLUSIVE: Cameras person started rolling connected The Blind Cook (Kusinerang Bulag), a Filipino characteristic directed by Hugo “Boboy” Yonzon III, pinch Jean Garcia and Arra San Agustin signed connected arsenic leads.
Yonzon directs from a screenplay he besides wrote. The movie is executive produced by Marilyn Magampon Manila and Cyrene Grace Lubigan.
The film’s charismatic synopsis reads: The Blind Cook follows Luz, a young cook who loses her show aft calamity but refuses to wantonness her family’s restaurant, discovering that resilience — for illustration cooking — requires learning to spot senses beyond sight.
The formed is rounded retired by Victor Neri (Baler, BuyBust), Samantha Samarita, and Madeleine Nicolas. Jean Garcia’s daughter, Jennica Garcia, besides features successful nan film. The brace play a fictional mother and girl successful nan film.
Principal photography is taking spot successful Iloilo City and Batanes Island. The task is nan 2nd movie from Filipino accumulation institution Bente Productions. The institution was behind I Remember You, nan 2025 Boracay-set romance play starring JC Santos and Valeen Montenegro. The institution launched its slate this week astatine Filmart.
Describing nan movie successful a statement, head Yonzon said nutrient and family shape nan story’s affectional core.
“In Filipino culture, nutrient is really group stitchery and attraction for 1 another,” Yonzon said. “It’s really affection is expressed successful nan family. Life brings challenges to everyone. The existent communicative is really group respond erstwhile thing difficult happens. That’s wherever resilience begins.”
Filmart ends March 20.
