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SNEAK PEEK: JERBER MERCADO

SNEAK PEEK: JERBER MERCADO Photography by: SEAN LIM Creative Styli ng & Direction by: MARK SHANDII BACOLOD & NING CORTEZA Hair & Make-Up Artist: MITCH CAMACLANG Set Design by: ARNOLD '... more

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Mar 12	-	BEN & SAM Showing parin!!!!
Jan 11	-	FIDEL Showing from Jan 20 to 26
Jan 3	-	BEN & SAM teaser poster 1

UNSUNG LULLABY [OST BEN & SAM] MUSIC VIDEO

UNSUNG LULLABY
Singer: May Banawa
Music & Lyrics: Ian Banawa
OST - BEN & SAM

Guest Actor: Drew Eugene
Produced by: Imaginative Media Production & OXIN Films

Director: Eduardo Roy Jr.
Director of Photography: Sean Lim
Editor: Gino Santos... more

Previous videos:
Dec 16	-	BEN & SAM Philippine Trailer
Dec 7	-	Ben and Sam 1st TRAILER
Nov 10	-	MAXIMUS & MINIMUS Full Trailer

Mark Shandii Bacolod is a member of ABS-CBN’s Writers Circle Batch 1 - trained by the living legend Ricardo Lee. He was a writer for Television for more than 3 years with shows like Mangarap Ka, Vietnam Rose, Entertainment Konek, Pinoy Big Brother Season 1 and the 1st Celebrity Edition. He wrote stage plays and directed some during college. Shandii started his writing with poems, haikus and essays before diving into stageplays and teleseryes.


Today, he is a full time Filmmaker. A budding Director in the making. Mark Shandii Bacolod was named One of San Miguel Beer’s Freshest Filmmakers of 2006. In 2007, he directed “The Vizconde Massacre” episode of GMA-7’s Case Unclosed hosted by Kara David as well as Charlotte Dianco’s high-drama screenplay entitled, FIDEL, a semi-finalist in Cinemalaya 2007. The movie will have its commercial release this year. He just finished his 2nd Directorial film titled 5 MINUTES, a film which is intended for the Pusan International Film Festival 2009 Short Film Division. His film PANAHON NA wherein he worked as the Associate Director and Line Producer already premiered in Boston last month.

Aside from directing films, Shandii has taken on a number of roles in the filmmaking industry. His film credits include Aloy Adlawan’s SIGNOS (The Signs) as Assistant Director. Signos eventually became Best Foreign Film in the Lone Star International Film Festival in Forthworth, Texas and winner of Excellence Award in California 2007. He is the Production Manager of Sigrid Andrea Bernardo and Bong Ramos’s HAW ANG (Before Harvest), a digital film released in all SM Digital Cinemas. Shandii is also a full-time Casting Director and a part-time Actor. His TV appearances include Mangarap Ka, Ysabella and the latest MRT Commercial. Film Apperances include Mudraks, Roomboy and XENOA 2: CLASH OF THE BLOODS directed by Sean Lim. Xenoa is a sci-fi drama wherein Shandii worked as the Production Designer and Assistant Director of the said film. He also helped a newly established production outfit in doing their film UGAT SA LUPA, produced by the NCCA and is now a finalist in the Cinemalaya 2009 Short Film division. Now, he is also busy line producing an action-packed digital film titled 4 TO 5 to be directed by first-time directors Dan and Brandon Relucio and busy working on 3 other feature films as Executive Producer. When not making films, he is directing events (fashion shows, awards night, etc.), music video and audio-visual presentations.

It is not surprising why his friends crowned him as the “Reyna ng Cinemalaya” (”Queen of Cinemalaya”). He has been working for at least one film for the CCP sponsored film festival since its inception in 2005. In the first year, he is one of the casts of Aloy Adlawan’s ROOMBOY wherein his good friend, Meryll Soriano won the Best Actress award. The year after, he worked on two entries, Dado Lumibao’s IN DA RED KORNER as Production Manager and Assistant Director and Arah Jell Badayos and Margaret Guzman’s Mudraks as Production Manager as well. 2007 saw him as Auraeus Solito’s Assistant Director of the multi-awarded PISAY and Associate Production Manager to Katski Flores' STILL LIFE. The movie Pisay was Cinemalaya’s Best Production Design, Audience Choice Awardee and Best Direction. Pisay eventually won 8 Golden Screen Awards and 2 awards in the Star Awards for Movies. The movie later competed in the 14th Vesoul International Film Festival bagging the Grand Jury and Audience Choice Awards. In 2008, Shandii worked on three films for Cinemalaya: as Assistant Director in Paul Morales’ CONCERTO, his third movie with Meryll Soriano; as Associate Producer and Assistant Director in Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil’s BOSES; and as 2nd Assistant Director in Chris Martinez’s 100. The film 100 won 5 major awards in last year’s Cinemalaya festival: Best Direction and Best Screenplay for Chris Martinez, Audience Choice, and Best Actress for Mylene Dizon and Best Supporting Actress for Eugene Domingo. 100 also won the Audience Choice Award at the Pusan International Film Festival of that year. Boses and 100 together with Dante Nico Garcia’s Ploning were honored as Best Pictures at The Gawad Tanglaw. Boses bagged 5 major awards at this year's Golden Screen Awards including Best Motion Picture - Drama and Concerto won Best Production Design and Best Adapted Screenplay. Concerto and Boses also won some awards in the Star Awards for Movies.

For Cinemalaya 2009, Shandii is Assistant Director to Alvin Yapan’s Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe. Shandii admits he loves his job as an Assistant Director as he derives a different passion from it. This passion, he readily shares with everyone he works with in the industry.