MY FAKE AMERICAN ACCENT at Robinson’s Galleria Indie Sine this December

It’s a limited screening, November 28 at 1pm we’ve been invited to participate in the Active Vista by the DAKILA organization to be held Nov 26- December 2 at the Indie Sine, Robinson’s Galleria in Ortigas Center. And we’re honored by the invitation, please support the event. Cool happenings from the Brewmasters.

This is for those who’ve been emailing where they can get DVD copies of the film, where they can watch it after the Cinemalaya film festival, we are eager to see you at the movies. Incidentally, this is the first time it will screen in a commercial cineplex setting, being that CCP has theaters and UP cine adarna is a specialty screening place.

MY FAKE AMERICAN ACCENT begins its week-run on June 17,2009,3 pm onwards at Robinson’s Galleria Indie Sine Ortigas Center.

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in answer to queries

My Fake American Accent in 2009 will still be pushed for screening, please check this site and dirtykitchen.wordpress.com for further announcements. DVDs of My Fake American Accent will not be available yet so hopefully you can watch it on big screens  still this year which is a better viewing experience than on the small screen by far. Thanks.

My Fake American Accent at UP Diliman July 31

Incidentally, it is UP’s Centennial Year and as UP grads, us filmmakers of My Fake American Accent are ecstatic to join UP Praxis in our screening on thu, July 31 7:30pm at the UP Film Center

My Fake American Accent CCP schedules

My Fake American Accent by Onnah Valera and Ned Trespeces is a slice-of-life workplace comedy following the lives of technical support call center agents in the span of six months. Speaking with a fake American accent is a prerequisite for the job. This ensemble comedy is an inside look into the maddening, sleep-deprived, caffeine-fuelled lives of those who ply their trade in the call center industry.

13 July/Sun, 9:00PM (GALA), Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)

13 July/Sun, 6:15PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

15 July/Tue, 3:30PM, Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)

18 July/Fri, 3:30PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)

18 July/Fri, 6:15PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute

20 July/Sun, 12:45PM, Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)

This site also encourages you to view the other entries in competition for the full length category: Ranchero, Huling Pasada, Jay, Brutus, Baby Angelo, Concerto, Boses, Namets, 100  

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The Talented Mr. Dela Paz

INT. DIRTY KITCHEN PROD OFFICE- DAY

NED: So, who do we get to play Meryl?

ONNAH: We both liked that Martin guy’s audition.

NED: Yeah, he was good.

ONNAH: But you know what? When I googled him, nothing came up.

NED: What do you mean nothing came up?

ONNAH: I mean nothing, nada, zip.

NED: Maybe he’s using a screen name?

ONNAH: He said he that’s his real name.

NED: Didn’t he say he has done some theater work? Did you check his name against the theater groups?

ONNAH: There seems to be no record of him having done anything with all the theater groups that we know. I know, it’s strange.

NED: You know what this means? He could be a Tom Ripley!

ONNAH: I don’t think he’s the serial killer type.

NED: But he could have just invented this whole personality…

ONNAH: I don’t think so. And besides, there’s no such thing as a Filipino serial killer.

NED: Then how do you explain Andrew Cunanan?

ONNAH: Look, do you want him for the Meryl role or not?

NED: Alright, I’ll give him a call.

(Postscript: Because of his audition at the Cinemalaya open casting call, Martin Dela Paz was able to bag two roles in two different Cinemalaya movies this year.)

Jonathan Neri a.k.a. Boy Tulis

We first met Jonathan Neri at the CCP auditions. While waiting for his turn to audition, I gave him a monologue that he could read for us when his turn came up. He seemed polite enough, and seemed a little bit shy because he wasn’t yakking it up with his co-auditionees like the others. I gave the monolugue to a bunch of actors who were waiting their turn. Jonathan, I gave because he had the call center fashion down pat, I think he was wearing a sweater or a hoodie, I didn’t think much of it. When his turn to audition came, Onnah whispers to me that he looks like Ugly Betty’s boss. Since I hadn’t seen Pisay, I had no idea that he had acted before. When I saw him in the camera monitor and he began his audition, I knew right away that we had found our guy. He looked and spoke exactly how I envisoned the character of Eric when we were writing the script- just the right blend of charm and dorkiness. On the set, Jonathan earned the nickname “Boy Tulis” because of his uncanny ability to attract women, especially those in the 25 to 29 age range.

Casting MFAA*: Mailes Kanapi

This may just be my opinion, but Mailes Kanapi gave the single best audition in the 2-day open casting call set up by the CCP for all the Cinemalaya entries this year. As Mailes enters the audition hall, Vives Asuncion, one of the panelists jovially heckles her: “What are you doing here? You’re overqualified!” After Mailes gave her audition monologue, the whole MKP hall momentarily fell silent, and then everyone applauded. I have been a fan of Mailes ever since I saw her in the one-woman play The Return of Flor. I was happy for, like, days after seeing that play. Having seen the play gave me a natural high. I was happy not for any other reason, but just because people were stageing something that I really liked, even if I had absolutely nothing to with the staging of that play.

*(My Fake American Accent)