Writing about “Write About Love,” a movie

Engrossed watching how a novice female writer under the guidance of a senior male writer rewrite a movie script about love. Film "Write About Love" stars Miles Ocampo and Rocco Nacino with Yeng Constantino and Joem Basco.

How the story unfolds with the unending revisions and edits most especially on the choice of ending is engaging but not annoying to someone who also writes.

Story is made clearer to movie viewer when what was conceptually shared by the writer is staged in an imagery scene by another pair of characters juxtaposing concept with reality.

The final output is crafted only when the female and the male writer resolve the personal issues they separately face surfacing as they work on the tedious and tiresome sometimes amusing collaboration.

Happy or sad ending? Love or relationship story? Is the best one what we were made to believe and not the traditional and the work around route?

I like the writers’ openness to each other. It is the crucial step to resolution and discovery. Travel, nature, conversation, family, forgiveness and love whatever your definition of it expedite our journey to an ending.

2019 film seen on GTV, a GMA free TV Good Friday night 2021. Also on YouTube and Netflix

Trailer https://youtu.be/yYSvq3gTYEw

Full Movie https://youtu.be/u3WCDy5Dgbo

Cinematographers' Notes https://neildaza.com/.../31/a-visual-renga-write-about-love

Sumasampalataya Ako

 Sumasampalataya Ako. Pagninilay sa ganda ng ating pananamplataya

Kasama si Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle

Aired on ANC Channel 182 HD, 26, 27 1 April 2021.

Also on YouTube. Features several stories for us to discover and to rediscover the beauty of the Catholic faith https://youtu.be/H-sZpqHmJrI

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Faith, its beauty is expressed by artists and the religious in various art forms as poetry, music, visual arts, songs and by the faithful in our own unique devotion and tradition imbedded in our culture.

Foundation of this belief is in Christ as the truth and Christ as the way and how He is with us through the sacraments fit in the cycle of the ups and downs of our lives.

The 50-minute documentary produced by Jesuit Communications highlights the beauty of life through faith “bigyan pansin ang mga maganda sa buhay.” Kwaresma shows us the ugliness of life but because of faith, beauty prevails “Kwaresma pagharap sa pangit. Dahil sa pananampalataya, nanaig ang kagandahan.”

When we realize the beauty of life, we share it.

Aired initially in 2019, now during the 2020, 2021 pandemic, the messages resonate. “sa kalagayan natin ngayon, ang pagkapit sa pananampalataya ang magbibigay lakas at pagasa. Siya ay nandyan para sa atin sa pamamagitan ng mga sakramento."

While we with the rest of humanity struggle through life, let us further deepen our faith for strength and hope.

Sa mga oras ng pagaalinlangan, tandaan natin ang salitang, "Nandito lang Ako."

-Annotation by Dr. Rebecca Cacho, religious educator

-Faith in a poem by Fr. Bert Alejo

-Faith in visual arts by Fr. Jason Dy

-Conduit as media personalities Julius and Tintin Babao