I was born in the Philippines, a country that is said to be a product of 3 centuries in a Spanish convent and 40 years of Hollywood. Probably explains why I am both a theologian and a digital filmmaker. My latest short film is I C H T H U S, a mythopoetic journey into the soul and story of a poor fishing village in the Philippines.I shot I C H T H U S with a consumer camera and edited it on the Apple editing freeware iMovie. I goodnaturedly refer to my work as filmmaking on a sub_zero budget. Total cost for ICHTHUS was a minuscule US$75. Though the facts warrant that I could not produce a decent film with a sub_zero budget, creativity wins in the end.SYNOPSIS: A mysterious, other-worldy being appears to Jonas in his sleep announcing glad tidings… “the sea will birth a miracle… a multiplication of fish here and now.†But the miracle is shrouded in mystery and Jonas needs to unlock the secret of the ancient code I C H T H U S. He finds himself searching for clues in his childhood haunt, a humble fishing village along Lingayen Gulf, in the northern Philippine province of Pangasinan. In a journey that is as much inward as it is outward, Jonas inadvertently casts his net into the hidden regions of a parable.
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