Funding the dream of Filipino filmmakers

Last month, we were at the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market(FILMART) to check the Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) where Isabel Sandoval's newest project, "Moonglow," was in the Work-in-Progress (WIP) section.

- RICA AREVALO

The WIP initiative caters to producers and directors whose projects need to secure post-production funds, hook up with distribution agents, and meet film festival programmers. "Moonglow" is a co-production of the Philippines, the US, Taiwan, and Japan. The film follows a disillusioned police man in the late 1970s who steals from a corrupt police chief. Upon investigation, Dahlia (Isabel Sandoval) meets her former lover.

Isabel is known for her international breakthrough film, "Lingua Franca (2019)," and the TV series "Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)," a crime drama starring Andrew Garfield and Gil Birmingham as two detectives investigating a brutal murder in a church community. She has also worked on the TV series, "The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022)," a coming-of-age romantic drama streamed at Amazon Prime Video.