Barbara Perez

The documentary serves as a tribute to National Artist for Cinema Gerardo de Leon in celebration of his Centennial Year. “Salamat sa Alaala.” is inspired by the music composed by the late film director when he was a teenager playing background music for silent movies in Manila theatres. The video opens up with a capsulated history of the birth of the Filipino movies followed by a series of shots of veteran actresses, the academe and the young generation of filmmakers affirming his unique qualities as a world-class film figure. Then we unravel his private life as a family man. The documentary is one way of thanking him for his lasting legacy in the art form he left behind.

Sarah is a young woman with the gift of seeing and hearing things before they happen. As a child, she sees her father’s death before it happens.

A newlywed Sol learns that her husband Roy is a psychotic who alternated between treating her tenderly and beating her up when she disobeys his orders.

A rich woman, trying to fight poverty, disguises herself to infiltrate the poor community, only to fall in love with a man she meets there.

Arman is torn between two women, a woman who came from a decent family or the one who kept it a secret of being a first-class prostitute.

Carol is a career woman determined to prove herself in a male-dominated corporate world. Her life suddenly changes when she falls in love with a carefree repairman Tonchi.

Sandy returns to the country to see her family and David, her fiancé. Later on, she meets Tommy, David's friend, who has a rocky relationship with his girlfriend. However, this meeting turned into an unexpected romance.

The sequel reprises the story of an ugly duckling who turns beautiful with a black dress.

Kakai, an impoverished crosseyed young woman, finds herself taken in by a rich matriarch and foretold to be married to the matriarch's snobbish son by a mysterious hermit.

The death of tycoon Ernesto Benitez left behind two daughters by different mothers.