12/4/2023 0 Comments Movie footage of martial law newsLana: We were writing for almost a year and filmed in 2021. So I used comedy to lure audiences in, but then make them realise this film is about us and we need to talk about the problem.ĭeadline: Were you writing Your Mother’s Son during the pandemic? When did you shoot? Many Filipino films have tackled the drugs war and yet we’ve still become complacent to it – to the extent that it doesn’t even spark conversation. I turned that film into a comedy, not just because I wanted a different perspective, but because at the height of the drugs war, it really felt like a circus. Lana: I recently made a film called Big Night that tackled the drugs war although I didn’t mention Duterte directly. So basically, I’m just trying to make sense of this really complicated and long, deep history of oppression.ĭeadline: The film plays out as an allegory – is that because you’re not able to tackle these issues head on? I’m also trying to make sense of this really complex relationship we have with our abusers – because in the Philippines we were colonised by Spain for 300 years, we were under American rule for 40 years, Japanese rule for three years, we were under martial law for 21 years during the time of Ferdinand Marcos, and then we had six horrific years of Duterte’s drugs war.Īnd yet we love our abusers, we put them in positions of power. We were asking ourselves – where is the tipping point? Because it was obvious something’s wrong and yet we’d become complacent. You’d wake up every day to news of people dying of Covid, but also people being shot in the streets because of Duterte’s drugs war. Jun Robles Lana: We started making the film two years ago at the height of the pandemic, a time when Duterte was still very much in power, and it was a horrific time for everybody. He also recently directed comedy thriller Ten Little Mistresses for Amazon Prime Video, which he also produced through The IdeaFirst Company, the production outfit he runs with Intalan.ĭeadline: What was the initial inspiration behind Your Mother’s Son? Lana was previously in Toronto in 2012 with Bwakaw, the story of an elderly gay man who takes in a stray dog, which was sold by Fortissimo Films and won several awards on the festival circuit.Ī prolific filmmaker, switching between festival films and mainstream titles, Lana also has credits including Barber’s Tales (2013), Die Beautiful (2016), Big Night (2021) and more recently About Us But Not About Us, which won the Critics Pick best film award at last year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. ![]() Lana, Perci Intalan and Ferdinand Lapuz produced the film through The IdeaFirst Company, Octobertrain Films, Quantum Films and Cineko Productions. ![]() Sue Prado ( Barber’s Tales) plays the mother, with Kokoy de Santos ( Gameboys) playing the son, and Elora Españo and Miggy Jimenez rounding out the cast.
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