5 MINUTES

"5 MINUTES"

written, produced and directed by Mark Shandii Bacolod

Official Selection, 5th Titus Brandsma Indie Short Film Festival

Greg (Vince Saldana) wakes up in his room and finds Peter (Jay Aquitania), a stranger of his same age, who claims to be his best friend since grade school. Peter seems to know Greg very well. He knows his house and his girlfriend, an older-liberated woman named Paige (Lara Morena); and he knows stuff about Greg only a true friend would know. But the problem is, Greg doesn’t know Peter. He couldn’t even remember meeting the man.

Their meeting intensifies when at the night of Paige’s birthday party, Peter passionately kisses Paige. The two men break in to a fight, wounded and pained. This fight gives Greg the biggest realization of his life.

“5 Minutes” takes us to a journey of regrets, ‘what could have been situations’, pains and losing one's self and finding it in life’s weirdest way. The dreamlike reality of Greg and Peter are actually manifestations of their distorted lives.

“What could be real may not actually be.”

Director/Writer/Producer: Mark Shandii Bacolod

Producers: Lara Morena and Jazmin Trinidad-Tecson

Co-Producer: Den Mark Estrella

Director of Photography: Rain Yamson II

Production Designer: Cicero 'Ching' Danseco

Associate Producers: Dan Relucio, Gina Desuasido, Marice Villasenor and John Tan

Editor: Biggie Estrella

Film Scorer: Diwa de Leon

Colorist: John Joseph Tan

Assistant Directors: Lorna Sanchez and Eduardo Roy Jr.

Production Manager: Sarah Pagcaliwagan

Art Directors: Rolly Carino and Jet Leyco

Hair and Make-Up Artists: Rey Decena and Nina Dumpa

Special Make-Up and Prosthetic Artist: Gina Desuasido

Jay Aquitania willingly suffers bumps and bruises

Jay Aquitania willingly suffers bumps and bruises
By CHARLOTTE DIANCO
July 2, 2009, 8:32pm

Jay Aquitania is the kind of actor who doesn’t mind suffering in order to give justice to his role.

In an interview granted exclusively to Manila Bulletin Online, Jay said that he willingly sustained real bumps and bruises in doing a fight scene for his latest project, “5 Minutes.”

“Napaka-challenging po kasi ng role ko at hindi naman po ako sanay pa sa mga fight scenes. Kahit may fight instructor pa, nahirapan talaga ako,” he said.

The actor said that while he’s more comfortable doing drama, he had a hard time doing scenes in the film that required crying, because these were shot the week his manager, the late Douglas Quijano, died.

“I think naubos na yata yung luha niya sa kaiiyak nung mamatay si Tito Douglas,” said “5 Minutes” director Mark Shandii Bacolod.

Nevertheless, Bacolod is all praises for Jay’s dedication to the project. The actor once had to travel Subic-Las Pinas- Subic to fulfill his commitments.

It was hard kasi pagkatapos ng taping ko sa ‘All My Life’ (GMA7’s new teleserye), diretso ako sa shoot ng “5 Minutes.” Whole day ang shooting nun hanggang kinabukasan, then pagka-pack-up, punta uli ako sa taping ng ‘All.’ Sa biyahe na lang ako natutulog,” Jay said.

Jay and direk Mark met last year when they worked together in “Concerto”, a finalist in the 2008 Cinemalaya Film Festival. Other stars in “5 Minutes” are Lara Morena and Vince Saldana.