Posted by Gavin Herrera at the UPFI yahoogroup:

After winning the Kodak Film Award 2003 and Best Production Thesis 2003 for the 35mm film thesis for "Karsel", and "Aninag" joining a number of film festivals/competitions including the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2005, Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival 2006, New York Filipino Film Festival 2005, UNESCO Audio-Visual E-Platform, Viva�s PBO Digitales Film Competition 2006, Gawad Urian Nomination for Best Short Film 2004, and International Women�s Film Festival 2006, Filmmaker Rianne Hill Soriano is fortunate to receive a new film grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). �PERA-PERAHANG LATA,� is a digital short film that explores the journey of a factory worker during the Christmas season.

Auditions for the "Pera-perahang lata will be held on:

Aug. 17 (Friday) and Aug. 18 (Saturday), 2007, 1pm-530pm at the Boardroom of the Avignon Tower 144 H. V. dela Costa St. Salcedo Village, Makati City (the building next Mcdo Valero-dela Costa, facing Mcdo, left side).

List of Characters:

Nilo
24-year old struggling, introvert, and critical man and breadwinner of the family (his mother and two siblings) who travels his way going to work and back home everyday and sees through the different people inside the jeep and the different sights along the highways.

Gary
Nilo is good friend and co-worker. In his late 20's, medium built, a jester and an extrovert type. The struggling Manila-born Gary comes from a big family of 8 children (the 5th child of the family). He is a very family-oriented guy who serves as a principled comic jester of the family and his co-workers.

Juda
The large-built Juda is the arrogant substitute to the permanent supervisor of the factory who is under maternity leave. The egotistic attitude of this bully-type man becomes the root of fight inside the factory.

Adult beggar
The adult beggar who was given alms by Nilo that morning turns out to be a beggar, and at the same time, an alcoholic and addict, a parasite of the society.

Mae
Nilo's 8-year old sister who has a very cute voice on the phone. Makulit and active type, she calls her kuya to ask for money for the exchange gift.

Nilo's mother
Nilo's sickly, quite melodramatic mother.

Gary's mother
A longing mother full of hurting moments for her son.

Gary's father
A longing father full of grief.

Gary's sister
Gary's sister who calms her mother during her lowest point.

Beggar boy
The beggar boy who desperately asks for alms or food to Nilo for his starving and dying mother. His painstakingly harsh condition puts guilt on Nilo upon seeing one shocking moment.

Beggar mother
The beggar boy's sick and starving mother.

Boss
The firm boss whose voice reverberates in the whole place when making his speech, but at the latter part, it turns out he has some loose and comic side, too.

Boss' wife
The boss' stern, quite bulky, and all dressed up wife who turns out to have some loose and comic side, too.

Carinderia owner
The Filipina-Chinese owner of the newly-opened carinderia near the factory where Nilo works.

Pare 1 and Pare 2
Two middle-aged men wearing the typical pambahay clothes. They are seriously discussing the state of the Philippines inside the jeep as if they are intellectuals (but each of them turns out more comic than intellectual).

Drunk maniac
The drunk maniac who tries to take advantage of a woman beside Nilo while inside the jeep. Nag-1-2-3 sa jeep.

Snatcher
The snatcher who robs the purse of the woman with umbrella (the woman who also became the victim of the maniac inside the jeep Nilo rides).

Policeman
The policeman who interviews the father of the murdered guy during his wake.

**You may also text Gigi at 09193399053 to arrange schedule.