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Check out the one-act plays published in Katitikan – Literary Journal of the Philippine South.

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Luyag ‘Da’ra’y Anino (A Kingdom of Shadows)

*based on a true story

Language of Dialogues: Pangasinan, Arabic, Iloko with English subtitles

Story, Screenplay, & Direction: Valentina Vidal

Shooting Location: Dhofar Mountains, Oman

Style and Narrative Structure: A poetic film with an episodic structure

*Inspired by a true story

Leonora Perez (63), a Filipino migrant worker employed as a shepherdess for a family farm is stranded on a remote mountain village in a Middle Eastern country for twenty one years. She endures the harsh mountain cold, threats of imprisonment and deportation from the authorities, homesickness, unpaid salaries that has accumulated over the years, near insanity, and isolation in a foreign country that is hostile, while at the same time, a country that is holy and beautiful.

Leonora earns a small monthly salary of 180 USD which she sends regularly to her family in the Philippines. Her meager salary was able to feed her family throughout the years and it was also able to send her only daughter Rubirosa to the university. Leonora?s faith in God, her unconditional love for her family, and her golden heart makes her endure all the hardships in the host country for 21 years.

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Labada

Mga Tauhan:                                                     

Gina               30s, naka-daster, may suot na kwintas na rosaryo

Tetay              30s, naka-long sleeves at palda, may balabal sa ulo

Badet              30s, naka-spageti strap at maikling shorts

Bireng            30s, naka-t-shirt at shorts na pang-basketball

Tagpuan:

            Batis sa Nagcarlan, Laguna

Panahon:

Sabado de Gloria, alas-siyete ng umaga

ANG DULA:

Pagbukas ng entablado ay makikita ang isang batis na walang tubig.

Papasok si Gina mula sa kanang bahagi ng entablado na may dala-dalang planggana na puno ng labahing damit.

Mapapahinto si Gina sa makikita. Luluhod. Magdadasal.

Papasok naman si Tetay mula sa kaliwang bahagi ng entablado na may dala-dala ring planggana na puno rin ng labahing damit.

Mapapansin ni Tetay ang walang tubig na batis na nasa gitna ng entablado.

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Entre Medio Del Fin (In the Middle of an End)

SCENE 1 – EXT. PEACE MURAL/ INT. CAR – DAY 

A peace mural is seen from inside a moving car. The view is hazy and we can barely see it. 

AYESHA, 16, a pregnant Muslim lady is looking at something off screen. 

SCENE 2 – WHITE LETTER ON A BLACK BACKGROUND: TITLE 

SCENE 3 – EXT. TERRACE – DAY 

We hear the neighbors fighting over a mango tree. DANNY, 30?s, a petite man, sees it from the terrace. He gets a little irritated, takes a stick of cigarette and puffs. There is a huge fruitless mango tree behind him. 

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