Director Erik Matti and producer Dondon Monteverde recently revealed how their immigrant crime story “The Squatter” became a top winner at the recent international TV festival, Series Mania, in France.
Director Erik Matti receives the top prize for his immigrant crime story ‘The Squatter’ from the France-based international TV festival Series Mania’s Seriesmakers, a mentoring program for feature filmmakers making the leap to TV.
During a recent interview with direk Erik and Dondon, also the duo behind Reality MM Studios, they shared how they made it to Series Mania’s Seriesmakers. “Hindi namin alam sino kasama namin, who else were invited into the filmfest… Of course, we expressed excitement . Sabi namin sige, let’s try to join so we did. There’s probably 20 or more than 20 filmmakers who joined. Hindi na namin na-meet lahat yun because it was then to 10 participants only.
“With a series, it doesn’t go that way. Yes, there’s a vision to the entire series, but it goes through so many people, not just creatives, but producers, etc., etc. All of those do a lot of things for the series to be completed and to be successful. What they particularly like about winning at Seriesmakers is the support even after post-win. They’re excited because they’ve attended events where they pitch their project, get a grant but there’s no clear follow-through.
Dondon added, “You know, it’s been always a dream also for Erik to actually do like a movie before in the English language. So who knows, this may be the first one or maybe dual language. We’re happy to be part of that and winning it, of course, totally makes us really proud to be Filipinos.”A real incident inspired the beginnings of the cross-border tale.
“She’s actually a lawyer prior to finding a way to go to another country… We could call her a Filipina immigrant trying to start a new life in London.”
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