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EXCLUSIVE: Philippine producer-distributor CreaZion Studios is expanding its accumulation slate pinch nan adjacent projects from filmmakers Ruel Santos Bayani, who is lining up a characteristic to sprout successful Spain, and Green Bones head Zig Dulay.
Dulay, whose 2024 characteristic Green Bones won Best Picture astatine Metro Manila Film Festival, is processing character-driven play Maria Maria for CreaZion. The communicative follows 2 Filipino women moving arsenic nurses successful Canada whose lives intersect arsenic they are forced to face nan past they some tried to flight – believing region and reinvention would make it disappear.
CreaZion described nan movie arsenic leaning into “Dulay’s signature grit and nuanced storytelling, anchored successful profoundly quality performances”. In summation to Green Bones, a situation play starring Dennis Trillo, Dulay’s credits see Bagahe (2017), which won Best Director astatine France’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema.
Bayani, who has credits including No Other Woman (2011), One More Try (2012) and Kasal (2018), is processing modern romance 142. Set to beryllium filmed successful Spain, nan task is described arsenic “exploring intimacy, timing and nan complexities of relationships shaped by region and individual evolution”.
“These 2 films bespeak precisely wherever we spot Filipino storytelling coming – profoundly personal, culturally specific, and yet undeniably universal,” said Anter “RJ” Agustin, CEO and President of CreaZion Studios.
“We powerfully judge that Filipino stories tin resonate anyplace successful nan world. The cardinal is collaboration – moving pinch filmmakers for illustration Zig Dulay and Ruel Santos Bayani, who bring authenticity, craft, and a clear sound to their stories. Our extremity is to champion these voices and link them pinch world audiences.”
The 2 projects subordinate an expanding slate of productions and co-productions from CreaZion Studios, which intends to internationalize Philippine contented astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic delivering hits successful their home market. CreaZion precocious co-produced animated characteristic Zsazsa Zaturnnah, which has been selected to premiere astatine this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and besides precocious announced Knock Three Times, directed by Jerrold Tarog (Quezon) and starring Julia Barretto and Charo Santos-Concio.
