‘Write About Love’
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:18:45 +0000
Cast: Miles Ocampo, Rocco Nacino, Joem Bascon and Yeng Constantino
Director: Crisanto Aquino
Screenplay: Crisanto Aquino and Janyx Regalo
Producer: TBA Studios
Synopsis: As the heroine known simply as Female Writer (Ocampo) learns the hard way, writing a script that will get a major studio to greenlight the project for filming is not without its own pitfalls.
A hopeless romantic, she succeeds in getting one foot inside the door by initially presenting an original story called “Just Us” to a whole team of studio executives. A few days later, however, she gets a call back: “Sorry,” she’s told, “but there’s an upcoming film with a similar plot.”
But all is not lost. The studio heads would like a rewrite but only under the guidance and direction of a more experienced scriptwriter. Enter Male Writer (Nacino), whose last film project became a box office hit.
Working together with a seasoned writer means not just a few but a lot of dynamic changes to the original script. No more boy-meets-girl and the subsequent stages of falling in love (i.e. friendship, attraction, denial).
To the studio heads and Male Writer’s point of view, “Just Us” should be written as purely a relationship story.
As the two screenwriters with contrasting views on love and relationship further develop the story, they start to realize that many of the choices and circumstances in fictional characters Joyce (Constantino) and Marco’s (Bascon) lives are actually mirroring their own.
As the two writers slowly begin to set aside their differences and work together to create a compelling and believable story about love that movie audiences can relate to, the writing process leads them to a fulfilling path of self-discovery. In the end, they realize what it truly takes — to write about love.