Cinemalaya 2008 Entries | ANDONG

Six-year-old Andong is obsessed, and nothing, not even his mother’s disapproval and constant nagging can help curb his persistent infatuation. It didn’t come out as a surprise to anyone when the precocious little boy went into a mad frenzy over the prospect of landing the much-coveted love-of-his-life. For the impoverished boy, it takes a miracle to convince his mother to give him twenty pesos. Andong is a story about pre-juvenile obsession and the real value of a hard-fought twenty pesos.

As a veteran of Cinemalaya director Rommel “Milo” Tolentino was one of the finalists in the very first Cinemalaya in 2005 for his work Alimuom. The following year, his short film Orasyon (Angelus) won the Cinemalaya 2006 Best Short Feature Film award.

Source: http://www.starmometer.com/2008/07/03/2008-cinemalaya-film-festival-short-film-entries/