by Paul Alexander Morales
90 minutes | Drama | History | Music

CAST
Jay Aquitania
Meryll Soriano
Shamaine Buencamino
Nonoy Froilan
Elijah Castillo
Alyssa Lescano

PRODUCTION

DIRECTOR AND WRITER Paul Alexander Morales
CINEMATOGRAPHER Regiben O. Romana
PRODUCERS
Paul Alexander Morales,
Laz’andreCawagas,
Maria Virgina Morales, Dr. Emmanuel Barais
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Claudine Najera,
Erwin Navarro
EDITOR Laz’andre Cawagas
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Gerry Santos
CO-PRODUCERS
Dr. Enrique Ostrea Jr.,
Mitzi Gutana Triska,
Felicitas Yap,
Susan Morales Barias
CONSULTING PRODUCER Viking Logarta
MUSIC SCORER Jed Balsamo
SOUND DESIGNER Jethro Joaquin
SOUND SUPERVISER Ronald de Asis
PRODUCTION SOUND RECORDER Allan Hilado
COLORIST Louie Quirino

LOGLINE

Concerto is about how, in the last part of WW II, a special piano concert is held in the forest outside Davao City, in Mindanao. In the boondocks, a displaced Filipino family, led by former Military Commander Ricardo and his wife Julia, become acquainted with a group of Japanese officers, similarly camped nearby. Their son Joselito, who speaks Nihonggo, becomes the conduit with the neighboring Japanese. Their daughter Nina, an aspiring concert pianist and the musically-giftedMaria, who is able to play by ear, are alternately repulsed and intrigued as the family treads the thin line between enmity and friendship. Based on true stories from the director’s own family history, Concerto celebrates how a family’s reverence for life, expressed through their love for music and friendship, can survive war, and shows how beauty and compassiongrow in even the harshest of conditions.