Filmmaking – Love and Regret

Today, I helped Lea do auditions for her thesis film for her USC masters. We dropped by Pasadena Film Commission at the Pasadena City Hall to look at houses that allow film shoots for USC (how fancy that USC can get so much govt support for student films!). Then we hauled to USC to hold auditions for Pinoy/Fil-Am actors for DELIKADESA.

DELIKADESA is about an 18yo boy who gets his girlfriend pregnant. Her father is a general and from a rich family. He thinks offering marriage to her is the honorable thing. In the course of the film, however, realizing he is not ready to marry, he will desperately try to get out of it before the Pamamanhikan (Engagement Dinner). See more HERE.

Lea and producer gave me a brief rundown of their films, and their plans for after graduation. It is exhilarating, especially since film was my undergrad course, and was previously something I really loved back in the days. Had I pursued another hands-on Mass Comm course that didn’t have jaded teachers, shows that bombed, or gone into writing & producing for Probe, I might have gone through the same route Lea took.

I’m very proud of what my friend has accomplished so far and wonder if its too late for me to get back into the film industry, even if I have to start all over here, in America.

Or am I really content doing something else media-related, other multi-media jobs?

As I pondered on these life-changing realizations, I watched Nickelodeon’s Pete and Pete shows (one of the indie-look shows that inspired me to get into film in the 90s) after dinner with my husband. It was a good day and made me love film all over again.