ALT-R HEROES FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NEW HORIZON SECTION

DESILYA by Toni Cañete 

21 minutes

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LOGLINE
Coming back home after thirteen years, a 16 year old is forced to remember what little she
knows of home when her mother decides to run away. In a grueling road trip with her estranged
grandmother, in a place that she has long forgotten, she soon realizes that she isn't the only one
looking for a mother.

 

PRODUCTION CREDITS 

Executive Producer LILIAN CAÑETE JOEL CAÑETE

Producer KIM VIVAR

Director of Photography MAKI MAKILAN

Production Designer ZARA LOAYON

Assistant Director CLAUDIA  FERNANDO

Editor BANE VICENTE

Sound Designer BUDDY SIBAL

Musical Scorer HARRIES DELOS ANGELES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE FILMMAKER
Toni Cañete is a filmmaker based in Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental. She is a recent film graduate from the University of the Philippines - Diliman. As a daughter, an only child, a bereaved sister, an eldest-grandchild in a women-led patriarchal household in the middle-class suburbs of Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, and as a queer filmmaker, Toni seeks to create films which exhibit the capability of young women to spearhead the revolution everywhere, even, and most especially, within the confines of their own home. Her films – pasilong, dala, and desilya – have been striving to do just that. pasilong’s greatest feat to date is being hailed ‘First Place’ in the Documentary Category of the ‘Ika-34 Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video’, while desilya’s is bagging the ‘Best Mindanao Film’ and ‘Best Film’ awards in the most recent 21st Mindanao Film Festival and Cine de Oro Film Festival 2023, respectively.

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