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- I wanted to make a film about the drug war from the perspective of the middlemen – the literal people caught in the middle. I wanted to show that we’re all victims in this, nobody wins in a war,” Red said in a Rappler Talk interview days before Neomanila was released theatrically on March 13.
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Mar 17, 2019 · The idea behind Mikhail Red’s Neomanila was straightforward – it was the beginning of the Duterte administration’s bloody but popular “war on drugs,” and the body count was swiftly and steadily...
Neomanila was the third feature film of writer-director Mikhail Red, the first two being Rekorder (2013) and Birdshot (2016). According to Red, he had the idea for Neomanila after watching an interview conducted by the BBC, which had gone viral, of a married couple who both worked as hitmen at night.
Aug 14, 2018 · Red’s third film, Neomanila, quickly followed Birdshot. The urgency with which he made the film was a reflection of its timely subject—the drug war in the Philippines. “With Neomanila , I had to combine local grant funding and private funding from executive producers I met in the Philippines.
- Joy Watford
Oct 19, 2017 · The son of Raymond Red, one of the architects of modern alternative cinema in the Philippines, Mikhail has begun to make his own waves and pave his own path as a filmmaker. Now, Red's third feature-length film is coming up at QCinema, or the Quezon City International Film Festival.
- Miguel Escobar
Mar 8, 2019 · It should not have taken this long but Neomanila, a Cinemalaya 2017 entry directed by Mikhail Red, is finally getting its commercial release in the Philippines.
Mar 13, 2019 · Neomanila: Directed by Mikhail Red. With Timothy Castillo, Eula Valdez, Rocky Salumbides, Jess Mendoza. Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy.
Mar 17, 2019 · As opposed to other recent EJK-themed films like Adolf Alix’s Dark is the Night and Erik Matti’s BuyBust, Mikhail Red’s NeoManila focuses on the perspective of a hitman – their motivations, drive and aspirations – this is much closer to Matti’s On The Job.
