Metro Manila (British Oscar Entry)

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Metro Manila Blu-ray



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British label Independent Distribution has revealed that it plans to bring to Blu-ray director Sean Ellis' crime drama Metro Manila (2013). starring Jake Macapagal, Althea Vega, and John Arcilla. The preliminary release date set by the label is March 10th.

Last year, Metro Manila was selected to represent the United Kingdom in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards. The film also won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival.

Metro Manila was shot on location in the Philippine capital entirely in Tagalog.

Synopsis: Seeking a better life, Oscar Ramirez and his family decide to move from the poverty stricken rice fields of the Northern Philippine mountain ranges and journey towards the capital mega city of Metro Manila. Upon arriving in the big city, it isn't long before they fall foul to various city inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival. Oscar lands a job as a driver for an armored truck company and is befriended by Ong, his senior officer. It soon becomes apparent that Ong has been waiting for the arrival of someone just like Oscar for some time. A few simple acts of kindness from Ong place Oscar in his debt; a debt that leads to blackmail as Ong forces Oscar to help him in a robbery of the company they both work for.

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