HILUM

Set in a rural coastal village in the Philippines, Mona trains under her mother to start work as a professional mourner-for-hire. After a botched performance, Mona retreats from her mother’s fury, and seeks out a shaman to cure her inability to cry.

CREDITS
Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Writer: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Producer: Hannah Schierbeek
Executive Producer: Scott McQuarrie
Director of Photography: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Editor: Brandon Bunner
Production Designer: Glenn Garciano Gutierrez
Composer: Henry Hawks, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Sound Designer: Henry Hawks
Music: Henry Hawks, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Cast: Audrey Alquiroz, Marijoy Cacho, Bruce Venida

Plays in

Spirited Away

Guided by shamans and ancestral spirits, we traverse the line between the living and the dead, tradition and transformation, fiction and non-fiction. — Udval Altangerel