Mabalacat City -- World-renowned independent film director Brillante Mendoza, who was born in San Fernando, Pampanga, is set to launch his Ma’ Rosa film at SM City Clark on August 17.
Venus Manalang, SM City Clark public relations manager, said the launching will be held at 4 p.m. inside the mall’s The Event Center 3.
The Brillante Mendoza Film Festival has set the launching at SM City Clark to share with the Kapampangans the film which earned international awards.
Ma’ Rosa is a 2016 Filipino drama film directed by Mendoza. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’ Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
At Cannes, Jaclyn Jose won the award for Best Actress.
The movie was also selected as the Filipino entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.
Ma’ Rosa cast includes Jose as Rosa, Julio Diaz as Nestor, Baron Geisler as Sumpay, Jomari Angeles as Erwin, Neil Ryan Sese as Olivarez, Mercedez Cabral as Linda, Andi Eigenmann as Raquel, Mark Anthony Fernandez as Castor, Felix Roco as Jackson, Mon Confiado as Sanchez, and Maria Isabel Lopez as Tilde.
Manalang said that local officials were invited to grace the Brillante Mendoza Film Festival.
In the film story, Ma’ Rosa (Jose) has four children and she owns a small convenient store in a poor neighborhood.
To make both ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor (Diaz) resell small amount of drugs until they were arrested by corrupt cops.
Rosa’s kids did everything to buy their parents freedom from the corrupt policemen.