FILMLESS FILMS presents PAALAM AKING BULALAKAW (GOODBYE MY SHOOTING STAR) This is not a film by KHAVN
Starring MERYLL SORIANO

K. loves Ana. Then Ana went missing. But now she’s back. And so is K. The walk through the old school. The strange encounters. The eye doctor. The rekindled memories. Chance? Or design? What we talk about when we talk about love are the things unsaid. The words that fail. The love songs in your head. The poetry between the lines.

Jolina and Squatterpunk have nothing in common and you’d be right to think that but you’d be also be wrong. They have one – - - Khavn. The teleserye mush of “Gusto” comes from the same place as the apocalyptic gorepunk of Three Days Of Darkness. The avantpop filmmaker has a flipside and a hopeless devotion to love and lovesongs. And he wears his secret heart on his sleeve on Paalam Aking Bulalakaw (Goodbye My Shooting Star). Forget John Lloyd & Sara. Spike the senti. Bittersweeten the punch. Love is love and loss and regret and long goodbyes all the things you want to say but can’t.

*World Premiere, 42nd Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy

CREDITS
Featuring ELMO REDRICO, NELLA SARABIA, & EGAY ROXAS
Translators MIKAEL DE LARA CO & MERV ESPINA
Songs & Poems KHAVN
Guitar Solo JONNY SALVADOR
Sound Engineer ARVIE BARTOLOME
Dialogue by KHAVN & MERYLL SORIANO
Editing RALPH CRISOSTOMO
Cinematographers ALBERT BANZON & KHAVN
Director, Writer, Producer KHAVN DE LA CRUZ

The film will be shown on Sunday, February 21st, 2010, at Fully Booked
High Street (U-View) @ 3 PM. The director Khavn Dela Cruz will also be in attendance and available for an audience Q&A after the screening. Admissions is free, hope to see you there.

Additionally, the Tioseco-Bohinc Film Series has established a YouTube account. Please check it out here: http://www.youtube. com/user/ tiosecobohinc

Special thanks to curator and critic Mervin Espina for encouraging the video documentation of the Tioseco-Bohinc Film Series. For those of you who are unable to make it to any of our sessions, we shall now be providing a way for you to watch and listen to your favorite directors and artists talk about their work.

Lastly, we would like to invite you to check out the Love Letters at Criticine, Alexis Tioseco’s fantastic online dedicated to critical cinema. This was Alexis Tioseco’s last contribution to Criticine prior to his and Nika Bohinc’s tragic death.

The publication of the Love Letters was made possible by the additional work of Ben Slater and May Ingawanij and the listed contributors. We highly encourage you to read the Love Letters for yourselves. You can find them here:

http://www.criticin e.com/feature_ article.php? id=44

*The TIOSECO-BOHINC FILM SERIES picks up where Alexis Tioseco left off with his Fully Booked screenings, casting light on independent films that deserve more audience than it has. An extension of the tireless passion and unconditional love both he and Nika Bohinc put into giving permanence and viability to truly independent cinema, it is also an active remembering of their work and life.