MMFF: 'Honor Thy Father' Disqualified from Best Picture Race!
https://theconfidentialfiles.blogspot.com/2015/12/mmff-honor-thy-father-disqualified-from.html
One of the entries in Metro Manila Film Festival that has been disqualified is the movie “Honor Thy Father”. This is due to non-closure participation to the Cinema One Originals Festival 2015 as the opening film.
But the documents that were shared by the member of the movie show that MMFF was certainly aware that the film opened the Cinema One Festival as an invitation-only, non-revenue event. The movie Honor Thy Father was a last-minute addition to MMFF after director Gil Portes' pulled out his historical documentary Hermano Puli because of funding problems.
Honor Thy Father was directed by Erik Matti with a script by Michiko Yamamoto starring John Lloyd Cruz in a serious role.
He had to shave his head, learn how to shoot a gun and weld to perfectly fit with the role of Edgar, padre de familia of a family trying to survive after the downfall of their investment business.
He had to shave his head, learn how to shoot a gun and weld to perfectly fit with the role of Edgar, padre de familia of a family trying to survive after the downfall of their investment business.
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