Pinoy Indie Films

SYNOPSIS

Sanglaan looks at seemingly simple relationships and uncomplicated events happening in a very mundane institution. A religious and single-minded businesswoman with a losing proposition, afraid of old age. A timid, vulnerable girl hopelessly in love with a high school crush. A security guard whose wife has a fragile heart. A charming and mysterious seaman just passing through. And a loan shark who won’t take “no” for an answer. These are some of the characters that populate the milieu of Sanglaan, a light, funny, poignant and very Pinoy story about hope and redemption..

FILMMAKER’S PROFILE

Born in 1976, Milo Sogueco is an independent filmmaker and commercial photographer who has produced works both in video and print for various multinational companies and advertising agencies in the Philippines and other countries. He regularly takes photographs for the Philippines’ biggest magazine publishers such as Summit Media and ABS-CBN Publishing. His first foray into filmmaking was in war-torn Jolo in Mindanao where he served as sound recordist and production assistant on Sari Dalena’s documentary Memories of a Forgotten War. At 20, he became a director of a computer information show on the local network ABC 5. A little later, he took on assistant director duties for Gil Portes’ Markova, Comfort Gay, his first project that had a full production budget and known Filipino actors. He had to discontinue his assistant director stint to work on his first short feature film Eroplano (Airplane) which was given a grant by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). Eroplano eventually won Grand Prize in a filmmaking tilt sponsored by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. One challenging film project that he did was the documentary Groovy: The Colors of Pacita Abad, the biography of Filipino painter Pacita Abad. This documentary commissioned by the CCP is now commercially released in video in the Philippines, Singapore and the US. Today, Milo, continues to work as a lifestyle/portrait photographer under his own Studio M. He still directs commissioned audio-visual-presentations for clients in the Philippines, Singapore and the US. Filmmaking remains his passion.