Venue and date for the shorts programme TBC
Philippines, 2024
Directed by
John Peter Cadiz Chua
Running time
13 minutes
Stephen Tan, the youngest person and the only photographer in his family, is tasked with creating his grandmother’s funeral portrait. Never having taken his grandmother’s picture, he searches for old photographs in his family’s ancestral home. There, he finds his Aunt Ellen who is hastily preparing for the wake later the same day. As the clock ticks closer to the funeral, a mishap in the house catches them off guard, opening up sentiments long left in the past.
Meet the director
John Peter Cadiz Chua is a Chinese-Filipino filmmaker and writer whose work centres stories from the Lannang community. His short film in Philippine Hokkien, No More Crying (2024), has screened locally and internationally, while his upcoming film Cardboard Moon won the 2024 Young Creatives Challenge Grand Prize. He received the National Book Development Board’s 2025 Publication Grant for his book Tracing My Grandparents’ Pen, which anthologizes his grandparents’ Chinese-language works. An alumnus of the Ateneo de Manila University, John Peter is an upcoming MA in Intercultural Studies student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Outside of film and writing, he shares Chinese Filipino stories through community talks and cultural events.
Meet the cast and crew
Starring
Lowell Tiu
Elizabeth Ty Chua
Writer
John Peter Chua
Producers
Carlo Enciso Catu
JP Rodriguez
Joe Morabe
Diane Nicole Castro Lee
Editor
Jasper Ramon Tulabot
Cinematography
Mai Calapardo
Assistant director
Chic Cruz Mirano
Additional photography
John Paul Ubaldo
Production design
Lars Magbanuaù
Makeup
Jia Enciso Catu
Sound
Albert Michael Idioma
Jannina Mikaela Minglanilla
Nicole Rosacay
Sheka Ong
Stephen Lopez
Garem Rosales
Ezequiel Gonzaga
