Mike Velarde

Horror of the Blood Monsters

Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.

Back Door to Hell

During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.

Luksang Tagumpay

After years of waiting for the absent husband who had been reported missing on the Korean front, Anita finally resigns to early widowhood and accepts the insistent pleas of kind, loving and handsome Dr. Ricardo Llamas. Marriage brings them happiness but fate has other plans for them.

Now and Forever

The true-to-life story of Miss Finland Armi Kuusela who was crowned Miss Universe in the first Miss Universe pageant held in 1952. In 1953, some nine months after she won the Miss Universe title, Armi was invited by the Philippine International Fair Committee to crown that year’s Miss Philippines, in the course of her stay, she met Virgilio Hilario, a Filipino businessman, through a blind date in Baguio, the two were eventually married in Tokyo that year. Kuusela chose to relinquish her crown shortly before her reign ended as Miss Universe

Tunay Na Ina

Magdalena becomes pregnant because she was raped by Antonio. Before his death, her father gives up the baby for adoption, thinking that no man can ever understand her past. Magdalena is engaged to Roberto, a decent, well-off young man. Haunted by her conscience, Magdalena writes Roberto a letter, admitting her past. Her aunt, afraid that the wedding may be called off, intercepts the letter and hides it. Assuming that Roberto has accepted her in spite of her past, she marries him.