Story Synopsis:
Paper Moon meets Cinderella
In the Philippines: The coming-of-age story of Tess, a beautiful, hot-blooded Filipina who must choose between her true love and the welfare of her family. The film wends its way through country villages, lush jungle and idyllic, palm-lined beaches, featuring two stars of Philippine cinema, Cesar Montano and Joross Gamboa. An energized musical score celebrates the soulful BisRock artists of the Visayan Islands with more than 20 original songs.
Production
A Far Away Life is an independent international production of Blue Island Films, written and directed by Tim Fitzharris. Featuring an all-Filipino cast and crew, most from the island of Bohol, the film was shot entirely on location.
Director
TIm Fitzharris
Blue Island Flms Productions LLC
Cast
Joross Gamboa
Georgia Jauslin
Disi Yap-Alba
Sophia Bacor
Cesar Montano
Michael John Sarabia
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King of the Feather Wars
An inadvertent flying foreskin and a near crucifixion in a mango tree launch two country-singing teens, Beau and Annie, on an island-hopping romp across the Philippines.
Hard times set them to scamming cockfights with a lovable overweight rooster while Annie’s jacked, tricycle-racing boyfriend and his "Midnight Rocket" keep them one step ahead of the police and their homophobic stepfather.
But their luck runs out when Beau risks all at the Slasher Derby Championships. Shot on location in full sunlight, this is not a film for whiners, weepers, or weak-bladdered candy suckers.