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A different shade of pink

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Pink, the symbolic color of the LGBT community, has more than 20 shades with more letters of the alphabet being added to represent the many exciting personalities that sashay in the rainbow coterie.

In the fourth installment of Pista Ng Pelikulang Pilipino Film Festival (PPP), a fine example of the L (lesbian) in the community is from T-Rex Entertainment, Samantha Lee’s Billie and Emma.

Lee’s two-year-old motion picture, since it graced the QCinema Film Festival, did a lot of traveling: Official Selection Out Fest 2019 Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival; Official Selection to Rainbow Reel Tokyo LGBT Film Festival; Official Selection to Frameline 43 San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival; Official Selection to Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival; and Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival bringing home the Audience Award Winner- Narrative Feature.

It even had a North American, Japanese, and European premieres.

After Patay Na si Hesus, Bakwit Boys, and Open, this is the fourth film from Rex Tiri’s relatively young film production company to participate in the annual festival headed by Liza Diño, the Film Development Council of the Philippines’ (FDCP) flagship project.

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‘Billie and Emma’ is a drama film directed by Samantha Lee. It is an LGBT coming-of-age story set in the mid-1990s.

 “My motivation in producing this film then was that this particular story must be told to a wider audience. The script was very good and I always wanted to do a movie with Direk Samantha Lee,” says Tiri.

In a nutshell, the film tells the story of Billie (Zar Donato), a troublemaker from the big city, who finds herself exiled to San Isidro to live with her spinster aunt who is also the town’s religion teacher. Determined to change her ways and get through the last year of high school without incident, Billie hides her real identity until she meets Emma (Gabby Padilla).

The young misses eventually fall and experience their first bite of a different kind of love, move heaven and earth, gamble with the devil and the deep blue sea, to make their complicated relationship survive. Adding another layer of emotional strain to it is Emma’s pregnancy courtesy of the campus’ resident heartthrob.

 “It’s a fresh perspective to the many emotions and issues that affect the LGBT community. And the reasons for their happiness and tears, their questions and triumphs, are not the same with other members of society. In this coming-of-age tale, its emotional honesty and depiction of a young love that blossomed and was shared by these courageous ladies, are the main reasons for people to view it,” Tiri said of the film’s main selling point.

PPP4 runs until Nov. 15 on the FDCPchannel.ph platform.

For updates on additional PPP4 titles and other information, visit FDCPchannel.ph or facebook.com/FDCPPPP.

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