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AUDITIONS FOR KHAVN'S "MONDOMANILA”

WHEN: This Thursday July 5 & Saturday July 7. 2pm-8pm.
WHERE: Unit E, 2nd Floor, 21 Kamias Road, Quezon City.
CONTACT: Chits Jimenez, 4331121, 0917-8211093.

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interested. Matsala!

Original Title: MONDOMANILA: Kung Paano Ko Inayos Ang
Buhok Ko Matapos Ang Mahaba-Haba Ring Paglalakbay
English Title: MONDOMANILA: How I Fixed My Hair After
A Rather Long Journey
Director-Writer-Producer: KHAVN
Production Company: FILMLESS FILMS
Selected in the 2nd Berlin Co-Production Market,
Germany; Produire Au Sud, World Film Festival of
Bangkok, Thailand; Digital Production Grant, Hubert
Bals Fund, The Netherlands.

Based on NORMAN WILWAYCO’s Palanca-Grand-Prize-winning
novel
Published by INSTAMATIC WRITINGS
(http://www.kamiasroad.com/automatic/)
Available at DATELINES Bookstore (Cubao X Marikina
Shoe Expo), AEON Books (F. Dela Rosa Street,
Katipunan), MAG:NET Katipunan & Mag:net Greenbelt 3.

SYNOPSIS
In a world where cargo-boxes are houses and a full
meal a day is a feast, Tony de Guzman subsists as a
sophist but with plans to avenge his oppression. He
begins his journey as the neighborhood water-carrier,
cursing his estranged father for being a financial
detriment with a pompous vision of education for his
sons.
Tony’s life is bridled by a string of endless
acquaintances and relations dating back to his
childhood. From his matchbox home of a nagging mother
with dreams of romance and a kid brother sexually
assaulted by an American pedophile, Tony takes
minuscule steps along a narrow path of grime that is
his community and elbows his way out of a putrid
company of neighbors: Almang Paybsiks, the town
gossip; Pablong Shoeshine, the arsonist Casanova;
Mutya, the dilettante gangster; Sgt. Pepper, the
perpetual macho with a gay son; and Domeng, the
avuncular pimp.
When Tony is given the unique chance to become a
scholar in the state university and later, to be
employed as a prestigious computer engineer, his
environment rise from the slums only to encounter
worse depravity in fair skins and fragrant garments.
Tony’s appetite for escape then becomes insatiable.
“Mondomanila” portrays the life of Tony de Guzman— a
cynical asshole and hedonist whose unawareness of his
unflinching hope is even endearing.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I have always wanted to explore Manila and its
humanity. Not just its people, majority of whom are
mired in poverty, but the whole rationale behind the
irrational lives these people experience everyday.
There is the kind of human drama that extends beyond
tragedy and plants its feet firmly in the territories
of madness. In "Mondomanila,” I strive to present the
truth as gleaned from the cracks in the celluloid
curtain. But the “truth,” it is not "out there," as
pundits from the outer realm put it, but in one’s own
backyard.
And backyards can shock, specially if one doesn't go
out much. I believe that "Mondomanila” offers one of
the most horrifying backyards in the tradition of
films made by one of the foremost Filipino directors,
the late Lino Brocka. If Brocka's films a decade ago
talked about the wounds of Manila, I would like to
believe that "Mondomanila" belongs to a new breed of
storytelling that makes one feel as if one has
actually touched that wound, a close-up view of all
that gangrene and pus.
“Mondomanila" takes place in the slums and is
inhabited by the denizens of the underworld. However,
it is not about a celebration of self-destruction. Far
from it. Decadence, after all, is the language of the
privileged. Decadence is that which escapes from the
clutches of bourgeois order. But what if there is no
order at all? In "Mondomanila," there are no happy
endings and Death awaits in ambush at every corner.
However, in my film, Tragedy lies not at the end but
is a given situation. It is, I believe, not the usual
"story that needs to be told", but is, in all
accounts, simply a backyard full of lovable fuckers.

SOME OF THE CHARACTERS:

1. TONY DE GUZMAN
Twenty-something. Matipuno, gwapo, moreno, matangkad.
Tapos ng engineering sa UP, matalino, top-notcher.
Galing sa hirap, laking looban. Basagulero. Malibog.
Mahilig sa jutes. Galit sa bakla, kano, UP, at sa
tatay niya. Mabait sa kapatid at nanay. Sarkastiko,
tuso, palamura. Matapang. Chauvinist. Tahimik na tao
pero maraming angas na voice over dahil sa mga
kabadtripan niya sa lipunan. Malakas siyang
mag-doobie. Nangangarap siyang makaalis ng looban at
magkaroon ng maraming pera.

2. YOUNG TONY DE GUZMAN
Around 10 years old. Batang iskwater, payat, moreno,
maamo ang mukha, batak sa trabaho, malakas ang loob,
masipag, matalino, naninigarilyo, marijuana, alak.

2. KAP
Barkada ni Tony sa Baguio. Doobie brother. 40 yrs. old
na alcoholic/junkie. Racist, anti-ayasib. Closet
homosexual. DOM ang dating. Payat. Mahilig sa prosti.
Dating sundalo. Madaldal. Makuwento.

3. TOMAS
Stepfather ni Tony. Mahilig sa matrona, mga chicks na
pinagkakakitaan. Matipuno ang katawan pero nakakalbo
na. 40 yrs old. Mahilig pumorma (magagandang damit,
sapatos).

4. JEFFREY DALI
Boss ni Tony. Yuppie type. Laging naka-kurbata.
Clean-cut. May affair sa kanyang sekretaryang si Tess.
Landlord family sa Batangas.

5. TESS
Sekretarya ni Dali. 20+ yrs old. Sexy, malaki ang
boobs, maumbok ang puwet, laging naka-mini-skirt at
naka-make-up, makapal na lipstick. May manicure na
pula ang mga daliri sa kamay at paa. Naka-stockings ng
itim. Di masyadong matalino, ginagamit ang charms para
ma-promote sa kumpanya.

6. LORNA
Sekretarya ni Tony. Exact opposite ni Lorna. 40+ yrs
old. Mukhang public school teacher. Medyo mataba.
Pangit magdala ng damit. Laging naka-lipstick nang
makapal.

7. EFREN
Ifugao na boylet ni Sarge sa Baguio. Matipuno ang
katawan. “Tisoy” na ifugao. Di masalita. 17+ yrs. old.

8. CHA-CHA
Prosti sa bar sa Baguio. Maganda at sexy. Partner ni
Sarge. 20+ yrs. old.

9. CANDY
Prosti sa bar sa Baguio. Maganda at sexy. Partner ni
Tony. 20+ yrs. old.

10. MUTYA
13 years old & 27 years old. Lalaking maraming tattoo.
Kaaway ni Tony sa looban. Mayabang. Malaki ang
katawan. Bully.

11. ELMER
Bestfriend ni Tony mula pagkabata. Makulit, madaldal.
Doobie brother. Bulakbok sa pag-aaral.

12. STEVE BANNERS
Kano, clean-cut. Pedophile. Kasing edad ni Tony. 20+
yrs old

13. DINO
Utol ni Tony. Payat. Sunog sa araw ang buhok. Laging
naka-hubad. Umaastang “bad boy” pero iyakin kapag
binabatukan ni Tony.

14. ISKONG BUGAW
Payat, long-hair, addict. May mga bakal na crutches sa
hita. Manyakis, mahilig manood ng porno. Dilat ang mga
mata.

15. ALMANG PAYBSIKS
Mataba. Maporma, suot laging tight jeans at
sleeveless. May tattoo sa braso. May baril na
nakasukbit sa tagiliran. 40+ yrs old.

16. MARIA
Maitim. Payat. Maganda. Nanay ni Tony. Laging nakasuot
ng maruming duster. Di nagsusuot ng bra. Di masalita.

17. PABLONG SHOESHINE
Payat. Maitim. 40+ yrs old. Dura nang dura. Mahilig
maghilod ng paa habang nakaupo sa stall niya. Mahilig
sa aso. Nanggigitata ang hitsura palagi. Alcoholic,
laging umiinom ng lapad. Secret admirer ni Maia.

18. ARTEMIO
Dating ka-live-in ng nanay ni Alma. Naging boyfriend
ni Alma. Manggagawa sa Konstruksyon. Maitim. Mahilig
manggulpi ng babae. Addict. Tomador.

19. JHUNZ
May-ari ng dorm. Payat. Addict. Marusing. Laging
nakasando ng pambasketball, di nagbibihis. Laging
nakadukot sa bayag. Bungal ang mga ngipin dahil sa
kaka-shabu. Wa-is.

20. SGT. PEPPER
Ex-cop. Crew cut. Tatay ni Naty. Malaki ang katawan
bagamat medyo lumalaki na ang tiyan dahil medyo
matanda na. 50+ yrs. old.

21. NATY
Bading na anak ni Sgt. Pepper. Payat, malanding
binatilyo. Mahilig magsuot ng shorts na masikip at
maikli.

22. KLARA
Crush ni Tony. Maganda. Kaklase niya sa elementary.

23. TROPANG PRANING
Addict at tomador na magkakabarkada na binubuo nina
Tony, Dugyot, Elmer, Patotok, Ompong, Ogo. Mga
binatang taga-looban.

24. RONALD ELISEO
Kaklase ni Tony na nagsumbong sa kanya. Mataba.
Crew-cut ang gupit ng buhok. Uhugin. Iyakin.

25. MRS. TOBOL
Principal na mukhang tae. Mataray at mahilig
magsisigaw. Mataba. Makapal ang make-up.

***

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

KHAVN ['ka-vin'] K. Delakrus is a filmmaker, musician,
and writer based in Quezon City.

With his independent digital film company Filmless
Films, Khavn has directed, written, and produced 19
features and more than 60 short films, several of
which have won prizes and in the Philippines, Tokyo,
Spain, Canada, Germany, Brazil, & Italy.
Retrospectives of his features and shorts have been
presented in Italy, Spain, and Czech Republic; his
short films have also been showcased in Brazil,
Germany, Australia, Slovenia, and the Netherlands.

Since 2002, Khavn has been the festival director of
the .MOV International Digital Film Festival, the
first digital film festival in the Philippines. Khavn
has served as a jury member in the Clermont-Ferrand
International Short Film Festival in France, Jihlava
International Documentary Film Festival in Czech
Republic, and Jeonju International Digital Film
Festival in Korea. He is a founding member of the
Philippine Independent Filmmakers Multi-Purpose
Cooperative. He has received the Hubert Bals Fund
grant for the development, production, and
distribution of his feature projects.

Through the Asia-Europe Foundation, Khavn gave a
digital film workshop in the Ngee Ann Polytechnic
University in Singapore. He also taught filmmaking,
songwriting, and creative writing in the Ateneo De
Manila University, his alma mater where he took up
Development Economics, Film, and Literature. The Asian
Film Archive, in celebration of the 40th anniversary
of the ASEAN, will spotlight his films along with a
workshop in Singapore. He has been invited to the
Berlinale Talent Campus several times, recently as a
Talent Ambassador.

Regarding music, Khavn has directed music videos of
various Philippine singers and bands, has written &
composed two rock operas staged in the Cultural Center
of the Philippines, has received songwriting citations
from the Metropop Song Festival and the John Lennon
Songwriting Contest, and has produced a number of
underground albums with his independent record label
Avant-Pop Music. He is the singer, songwriter, and
pianist of the piano combo Delakrus and the art-rock
band The Brockas.

As a writer, Khavn has won prizes for his poetry and
fiction from the Palanca National Literary Awards, and
has also served as a jury. He has been a Writing
Fellow twice, for poetry and fiction, in the National
Writers Workshop. He has written two novels, a book of
short stories, and several collections of poetry,
published by the University Of The Philippines Press,
University Of Santo Tomas Press, and his independent
literary press Instamatic Writings.

"Enfant terrible of Philippine Cinema."
– Giovanni Spagnoletti, Festival Director, Pesaro
International Film Festival (Italy)

“Che Guevarra of the Digital Revolution.”
- Jose Victor Marin, Festival Director, La Palma
International Digital Film Festival (Spain)

“A real discovery. The Lars von Trier of the
Philippines.”
- Julien Fonfrede, Montreal Festival Of New Cinema
(Canada)

"The new Takashi Miike. The Philippine counterpart of
Peter Baiestorf."
- Marcelo Carrard, Film Critic, Mondo Paura (Sao
Paulo)

“The wild, funny, subversive no-budget videos of the
Philippine punk rebel Khavn is a discovery in the
emphasis to the cinema of Southeast Asia.”
- Christoph Huber, Film Critic, Die Presse (Vienna)

“Khavn earns a place of his own in the international
foreign legion of experimental extremists and cult
film makers such as the Japanese Takashi Miike, the
German Jörg Buttgereit and South African Aryan
Kaganof/Ian Kerkhof.”
Gertjan Zuilhof, Programmer, Rotterdam International
Film Festival (The Netherlands)

“Filipino Renaissance man Khavn is one of underground
digital cinema's best-kept secrets. Khavn ---
Rotterdam International Film Festival's coolest
revelation --- might look like a prankster punk, but
in the end he's also an ass- kicking rebel priest.”
- Olaf Moeller, European Editor, Film Comment
(Germany/New York)

"For a few years now, Philippines had its own answer
to the Dogma manifesto. It was called Filmless Films.
Its leader is Khavn. He has been tireless in
organising events, screening showcases and festivals
to promote Filipino digital cinema. Filipino digital
cinema has come of age."
Philip Cheah, Festival Director, Singapore
International Film Festival (Singapore)

“The most prominent member of Philippine independent
cinema is Khavn, the radical warrior in the field of
film language. Like John Cage the famous musician,
this experimental director also pushes the artist's
tools to the edge of physical sustainability: Film as
an instrument of formal and mental destruction.”
Marek Hovorka, Festival Director, Jihlava
International Documentary Film Festival (Czech
Republic)

FILMOGRAPHY

FEATURES
1. Kamias: Memory Of Forgetting; 2. The Twelve; 3.
Greaseman; 4. Pugot ( Headless); 5. “Idol”:
Hero/Villain; 6. Kristo; 7. The Profane and Senseless
Passion of Hesus Corazon Who, by the Disgrace of God,
Freezes the Heart of the Loved One; 8. Buryong; 9. The
Family That Eats Soil; 10. Three Days Of Darkness; 11.
Goodbye My Shooting Star; 12. Vampire Of Quezon City;
13. Bahag Kings; 14. Ultimo; 15. The Longest Moment
You’re Not Here; 16. Squatterpunk; 17. Overdosed
Nightmare; 18. The Muzzled Horse Of An Engineer In
Search Of Mechanical Saddles; 19. Philippine Bliss

SHORT FILMS
1. Oldeastside; 2. An Open Letter To All The
Terrorists Of The World; 3. By The Suez Canal; 4.
Rugby Boyz; 5. Our Daily Bread; 6. Can & Slippers; 7.
Small Ali; 8. Mondomanila: Institute Of Poets; 9.
Greaseman; 10. Barong Brothers; 11. I'm Not Batman;
12. John Cage; 13. Amen; 14. The Electric Company's
Gonna Get Our Backyard; 15. Five Shorts; 16. Memory Of
Dawn; 17. Blood Stew; 18. Two Superheroes Taking A
Crap, A Toilet Musical; 19. To All The Supergirls I’ve
Loved Before; 20. The Superman Who Couldn’t Fly; 21.
Superman In Love; 22. Aquaboy; 23. Pornoman; 24.
Waiting For A Superhero; 25. Superhero In Bed; 26.
Headless; 27. Ultimo; 28. Literature; 29. Toxic Mango;
30. The Last Gag Of Buster Quizon: Nothing Funnier
Than Unhappiness; 31. Mr. Duck Egg Trilogy; 32.
Squatterpunk / White Rock Island; 33. Last Superhero;
34. Doppelganger; 35. El Amor Es Valiente; 36. Victim
21; 37. Bass; 38. Third Day Of Darkness; 39. The Bag
Is Closed But The Heart Is Open; 40. Dehado; 41. Soft
Night; 42. Bulalakaw; 43. The Rape And Murder Of
Virginio And Virginia P.; 44. Bahag Kings; 45. At
Last; 46. The Passenger / Moving Along; 47. I've
Forgotten; 48. Dead Woman In My House; 49. Sometime
In August; 50. Bertdey; 51. Akong, Ang Duwendeng
Hindi; 52. Barbeque; 53. Dog Day Afternoon; 54. Pigs;
55. Kamatayan Ng Presidente; 56. Pagtingin Sa Salamin;
57. Sorry Ledh; 58. May Isang Sundalo; 59. Deaf Wish;
60. Kids; 61. What’s The Story? (Morning Glory); 62.
My Room; 63. 1/4 Day In A Life; 64. Susunduin Ko Si
Ledh Sa Simbahan; 65. Young Writers Interview

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