Cruz was adamant in making the film upon reading the script — wherein a young man wins the lottery, abandons his hometown, and later returns, now eroded by wealth
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At a meeting at Cruz’s house, the actor told his future director Ocampo that he takes his projects ploddingly. “I think that pacing reflected in the film,” said Ocampo in a mix of English and Filipino. , which is now set to have its world premiere — seven years since the wheels started turning — in the Asian Next Wave section at this year’s QCinema International Film Festival.
Such is the reason why he is inclined to dedicate the film to his father, who was a religious lotto bettor and even named him after the dictator Marcos, a paradox of sorts, as he put it to me. A few months before the pandemic, Cruz picked up the project again and met up with Ocampo at UP Vargas Museum. It was a juncture of gauging each other.
The initial progress of the film, after securing Wilwayco’s commitment, was short-lived due to routine lockdowns. Then leading a new life in Katipunan, Ocampo went back to Pampanga and pursued farming. When the pandemic subsided, Cruz got in touch with him. They did preproduction online. There was even a detail in the edit, a scene towards the film’s coda, that Cruz fine-tuned, and Ocampo sensed that would happen. The director said he shoots with the edit in mind, or at least 80% of it; the rest is a leeway for possibilities. “Ocampo also brought up the effort in selecting each location prior to actual production, which allowed him to imagine and rethink every scene in his lead, to the extent that it appeared in his dreams.
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