24 years of watching movies.

Over a hundred likes on Facebook when i posted this poorly lit picture.

But I guess it was "liked" because it's an entirely different world.

I've computed my DVD collection of almost 900 and I guess I've spent more than a hundred thousand for this collection. This is the first time I'm doing this computing thing now that I have to spend for myself, I've lessened my DVD purchase.  Finally! I figured out why I have been so broke.


I love movies. I guess when I was little, the most important thing about collecting movies - we had the VHS back then - was that it always reminded me that my parents are home from a vacation and that we were complete again. Whenever my parents would go out of the country, they'd come home with movies. Back then, the films showed about 6 months prior in the states before it reached the Philippines. I remember watching movies on VHS before they came out here (Star Wars Episodes 4, 5 and 6). I remember my first few VHS tapes: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Star Wars Trilogy. Then I had the Batman Trilogy, Lion King and all other Disney movies that shaped my Hollywood Dream.



This might explain why I love movies so much - it always meant coming home. It always meant family. Ever since high school, I've wanted to make movies because I'm such a big fan of films. And looking back, I remember that my dad let me hold my first video camera at an early age. I remember editing my first video when i was in the 6th grade. I was so amused with moving pictures and with capturing live action. So I guess I'm here now, trying to break into the industry.


I have another world in my room. As I've said - over 900 DVDs/VCDs. I haven't counted the VHS tapes that I didn't throw out. I haven't taken pictures of my film book collection. But this is where I live - in movies. So my obsession with it is naturally an offset of who I am, who I've always been. 


I'm lucky to be someone who knows what I want to do for the rest of my life. And most days, I'm blessed to be paid to do something I absolutely love doing. And everyday, I am sure about what I want to do.


Hope you're as blessed to do something you love. Something you're extremely obsessed with. Something that makes you happy just talking about it.


Awesomesauce :)

adventures of the little one

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Hi all. This is me, just Krizzie. Today, on the first of April, I have created a blog that truly says: me. I've been working for my idol for two months now, and I'm having a blast. Here's to having first hand info on the ills of Cinemalaya and being right beside the genius that is my mentor.

Then again, I would also try my hand on reacting on films - old and new. We'll see.

Last January, I released my first full length film, Tahanan, with the support of SM Cinema and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. I received a lot of critique - but I found one harsh but true. That one from lagarista.com. Mikh Vergara did the review, and although it was true, i tried not to read it again - but then it hit a nerve. At that time I wanted to reply, "hey I'm still in college, I did the film while I was doing my 4.0 Marketing Thesis, and I still managed to finish the film." *insert ego boost here* But no, I kept quiet and let the happiness of finishing a first film keep me alive. Of course, I remembered his name.

A week after my screening, I graduated from College. A day after my college graduation, I started training under my awesome mentor, Erik Matti. About two weeks after my first day of apprenticeship, i read a movie script and my assignment was to comment on the script and search for loopholes. The script was from Mikh Vergara. I read it. And i liked it. A month and 2 weeks after that, I saw Mikh at a screening of a film we're still working on. I said hi to him, I said my first name, and he said hi back. Of course, he wouldn't know who I am. So I played the film for him, on the big screen of Post Manila. The film which I subtitled, and explained to him that some of the subtitling was not right because there was a different edit. There he said it was okay; then I said that I read his script and I liked it, and we ended with "thanks, Krizzie"

In this industry, everything comes full circle real quick.

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** thanks to Pat Evangelista for the picture from Rappler.com :)