00:00Attorney Joji, you have a lot of films here that are different directors, different timplas.
00:08How do you choose your films? You're an abogada. You're like a different world.
00:19Strangely, Joanne, I loved films starting at the age of nine years old. I would save my allowance to be
00:27able to watch Filipino films, not foreign ones.
00:32So andun talaga yung passion ko na gusto kong manood ng pelikulang Pilipino. Kaya sabi ko someday gusto kong gumawa
00:38rin.
00:39And interestingly, I'm seated beside Ellen and Jeffrey at itong dalawa ang dahilan bakit ako napasok sa industriyang ito.
00:48My baptism of fire, my introduction into filmmaking was actually with Ishmael Bernal, no less, for a drama for television.
00:59Nambudol kasi ito si Ellen eh.
01:02So yun, after that parang sabi ko ayoko na umulit.
01:09Nakakatakot pala. Karuktong ng bukas, yes.
01:13Okay, Kubrador, well, I would like to give a generic answer to that question in that I always read the
01:20script thoroughly.
01:22And there's always something in the script that ignites a fire of sorts.
01:27Parang, like Kubrador, it's a very simple story of a woman na nangongolekta for a wedding.
01:33But as you go along the pages of the script, mapapapiay ka na lang kasi ang ganda niya.
01:40Sobrang tapang andyan yung mararamdaman yung nararanasan ng mga tao na dumadaan ng ganito araw-araw.
01:50And of course, there's the genius of Jeffrey Jaturian as a director.
01:57Totoo naman eh.
01:59Hindi naman magiging ganon yung pelikula kung hindi ka magaling, Jay. Alam mo yan.
02:03Okay.
02:04Pagdating naman sa Biyaheng Lupa, napaka, I mean, mentor ko si Bing Lau.
02:13I've always admired him and I wanted to be part of his very first film.
02:19It's such an honor na, sige, magsanla ulit ako ng bahay ko para meron akong ipupuhunan sa pelikulang to para
02:28lang magawa namin.
02:29That was a very simple story of passengers in a bus na wala kang maririnig kundi mga boses nila habang
02:37nag-iisip sila.
02:38And sabi ko, ibang klase rin to. And because of that, I said, no, we really have to do this
02:44film.
02:45Sabi ko kay Bing noon, magkanong kailangan mo, Bing?
02:48Sabi niya, kahit 3M, okay. Ang ending namin, 6M.
02:52So, seryoso yan, Joanne. I think for my first three films, sanla ako ng sanla ng bahay ko para meron
03:01akong mailabas to produce the film and it never came back.
03:05That's the sad reality of it. The good thing is, because I'm a lawyer, kumikita naman ako ulit at napabayaran
03:12ko at nawawala na yung mortgage sa bahay ko.
03:16Fortunately, kumita ang babae sa septic tank.
03:20When it was offered to me, and again, I read the script, sabi ko baliyo na baliyo to si Chris
03:25Martinez magsulat, ang ganda, ang ganda na naman.
03:28And then, working with Eugene Domingo, and working with Marlon Rivera, who's also another genius for me.
03:35Say ko, sige, let's go and do this.
03:38So, ayun ang sumatotal.
03:41Pag nabasa ko yung script, there's something in it na nakikita ko na would inspire me to do it.
03:50Not necessarily sociopolitical, not necessarily drama, basa meron akong mapipiga from it na gusto ko siyang gawin.
03:59And, Joanne, thank you for including these films in your list.
04:04Alam mo, pag Joanne maglipon, it equates to integrity.
04:07Kaya, thank you.
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