Movies by Tessie Tomas

Gagay: Prinsesa ng Brownout
Gagay (Gelli de Belen) and her family are gathering woods which they make into coal. Though they were poor, they already saw some improvement in their lives. This is the Cinderella story for the brown-out plagued generation of this country.
The Pawnshop
Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing almost everything for love. Kanor serves as the pawnshop security guard. He holds Olivia in high esteem for letting him and his wife stay in the apartment above the shop. Kanor opens his house to boarder David, a seaman in transit.

Rome and Juliet
Rome and Juliet follows the romantic journey and soul mating of two straight women caught in a web of forbidden love. Juliet (a conservative pre-school teacher) is a bride to be who befriends and hires Rome (a liberated businesswoman) as her wedding planner. As they go through the preparations, Rome and Juliet develop a deep friendship, a soulful connection and a love that is physically consummated. But conflicts arise when Marc, the groom, who is a young politician, shockingly discovers the ongoing relationship between the two women. Angere...
Blindfold
James is a gym instructor by day and a student by night, who struggles to keep both ends meet. Standing as the family bread winner, he is determined to make a difference in his troubled family. He and his three siblings grew up without knowing who their father is, while their mother is a retired prostitute who runs a whore house. James works hard to graduate.

Huling Biyahe
Two aging couple who work in the Filipino film industry, a linear editor and an ex-dubber, who, at the twilight of their lives, decide to part ways to know what’s missing in their lives. They both explore things they haven’t explored before as they both undergo a sexual awakening in their lives. The wife finds comfort in a local school janitor whom she sees a slight parallelism to her life. On the other hand, the husband gets enamored on a shy barrio lass whose face elicit the same weakness he has for women chinita eyes.

Miss Bulalacao
A young drag queen, Dodong, who joins a barangay gay pageant to gain acceptance in his father’s community. He is instead met with hostility from his father, who chases him into a jungle, where he sobs to a lone bright star. What follows is the strangest night in his entire life, and an even stranger nine months when he realises he is pregnant. Dodong deals with ridicule from a barangay who does not believe him.
Old Skool
Lola Fely lovingly dedicated most of her life to care for her family, she finally decided to pursue her longtime dream to finish Grade 6 at the age of 69. Too old for some, but never too late for Lola Fely who is determined to survive the challenges of studying and adapting to the pre-teen campus life. Other characters include Buboy, the class bully, played by Buboy Villar, and Pinky.

Extra Service
The story revolves on the amazing adventures of Aw, Em and Gee, who are mild-mannered massage therapists by day and sexy secret agents who solve crimes by night. They are then tasked to embark on a top-level secret mission to retrieve the precious “Perlas Ng Silangan” in exchange for their lives and freedom

Otso Otso Pamela-mela Wan
Misunderstood by their families, buddies Boy and Andoy run away to start a new life and end up switching places with a pair of look-alikes. Just as the two pals make their getaway, twins Mao and Dao flee their city to escape arranged marriages. A mix-up results in Boy and Andoy impersonating Mao and Dao and vice versa, and it's sheer chaos when one set decides to return home.

Water Lemon
A story set in a coastal Quezon town where the mundane lives of a grieving widow, her socially-handicapped son and a helpless grandfather interconnect to create bumps in their flatline lives.

100
With only three months left to live, a cancer patient compiles a list of tasks to complete before she dies.

Narinig Mo Na Ba Ang L8est?
A handsome bachelor rumored to be gay and a free-spirited woman are forced to work together to help their company.

My Only Love
Billy and Cindy are teeners trapped in the conflicted world of their parents. Two children of two marriages gone sour. Young and confused by the whole situation, they try to look for answers, but the whole business of life is not as simple as it seems. Left with no choice but to come to terms with whatever it is that life presents, they rely on each other for emotional support. And in the process, they learn that despite their parents marital woes, much remains in life and love reserved for the two of them.