Escape into the colorful world of Saving Sally, starring Rhian Ramos, Enzo Marcos, and TJ Trinidad, on Cinema One.
The film won the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2017 special jury prize and audience award.
Saving Sally is the about comic book artist Enzo’s unrequited love for geeky best friend Sally (Rhian) using combined live action and animation.
Marty sees Manila littered with monsters, including Sally’s alpha male boyfriend Nick (TJ), as he watches over and tries to save her from her personal struggles.
Aside from the fantasy-animation film’s recent wins in the US, it also bagged three Fantasporto-Oporto International Film Festival recognitions in Portugal, including audience choice, special jury prize and Orient Express Section special jury award. It likewise won the best family film in this year’s Bentonville Film Festival and the 7th Orbit Prize-Special Mention in the recent Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.
Locally, Saving Sally”earned the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival best musical score and children choice award, as well as the best production design in the 40th Gawad Urian.
Director Avid Liongoren shared that he was picturing a Quezon City state of mind during the film’s production, which resulted to the unique aesthetics as one of the film’s many complex delights—among them the remarkable views of an animated Metro Manila.