A girl, a gun, and desperate
times.
After being pushed to the edge
most of her life, a girl discovers how much power owning a gun can give her and
decides she’s had enough of being the underdog.
CIGNAL ENTERTAINMENT, in
partnership with EPICMEDIA, present BABAE AT BARIL, an official entry to the
QCinema International Film Festival.
Janine Gutierrez stars as
asaleslady in a local department store. Her everyday life is composed of an
exhausting commute home anda Manager who always seems to have something to say
about her physical state. When she finally gets home, there's no one there but
her roommate who couldn't care less about her.
All that is about to change when
she finds a peculiar looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life instantly
changes as she feels she can do anything she wants, talk back to whomever she
wants, and even hurt anyone she wants.
The film stars Janine Gutierrez,
Felix Roco, Elijah Canlas, JC Santos, and Sky Teotico with special
participation of Ruby Ruiz, Allan Paule, and Archie Adamos and will be shown in
selected cinemas from October 15 to 22, 2019.
Babae at Baril is director Rae
Red’s sophomore feature and first solo directorial effort. The movie tackles
how it is like to be a woman in a world of violence and masculinity.
Babae at Baril is one of the
three recipients of production grants amounting to P1.5 million each from
QCinema. The movie will be competing along with Glenn Barit’s The Cleaners and
ArnelBarbarona’s Kaaway sa Sulod, and against entries from Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Laos, and China.
QCinema 2019 runs from October 13
to 22 and will be screening films at Gateway Mall, Ayala Trinoma, Robinsons
Galleria, UPFI Cine Adarna, Cinema ’76 Anonas, and Cinema Centenario in Quezon
City.
ABOUT CIGNAL ENTERTAINMENT
Cignal
Entertainment is the original content division of Cignal TV, the country’s
leading Pay TV provider. Cignal Entertainment aims to develop high-quality
Filipino content for its various in-house channels and platforms, and for the
global audience. Follow us on Facebook via www.facebook.com/CignalEntertainment
ABOUT
EPICMEDIA
Epicmedia is
an award-winning independent production company that has produced local box
office hits and championed films in Berlinale, Venice, Toronto, Busan and
Tokyo. It has also housed numerous international co-productions and launched
the new voices of Philippine cinema.
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