Winner, Best Picture, 7th Cinema One Originals Film Festival 2011.
Winner, Best Cinematography, Neil Daza and Kiri Dalena, 7th Cinema One Originals Film Festival 2011.
Angeli Bayani's character was a composite of several women political detainees. To prepare for the role, Angeli met with former political prisoner Hilda Narciso, and immersed herself in the experiences of other martial law torture survivors.
"As a character, 'Ka Alma' must go through the various torture-methods these detainees went through," recalls director Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena. "As you can imagine, these scenes were not only physically taxing, but highly emotional as well... This is where Angeli's brilliance lies. I remember that after filming the ice-block scene, where 'Ka Alma' is interrogated while strung up completely naked on a block of ice, I was really affected and brought to tears after we finished the scene. Aside from myself, after the scene was shot, Angeli wept and was inconsolable. She wasn't 'performing' in any of the torture scenes; she made it real."