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Kicking off its month-long journey towards the December 25 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) 2023 release, Mentorque Productions in cooperation with Cleverminds Incorporated, held the biggest and grandest media and fan conference-in-one of the film Mallari on Friday, December 1 at at The Music Hall of SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City.
Present during the momentous event were John Bryan Diamante, the president of Mentorque Productions, the main cast — Piolo Pascual, Janella Salvador, JC Santos, Gloria Diaz, and Ron Angeles.
Mentorque Productions made history through Mallari as the first Filipino movie distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures.
Mallari is a partly fictional, partly true-to-life account inspired by the true story of Fr. Juan Severino Mallari, a parish priest in the 1800s who killed 57 people before being caught, thereby becoming the first and only recorded Filipino serial killer ever, antedating Jack The Ripper by more than 60 years.
The social commentary film takes pride in its high-quality production and high caliber team, which earned the nod of Warner Bros. and promises to be the scariest movie this Christmas season during the MMFF 2023 run in cinemas nationwide. The development of its concept started in 2018 and had its green light by Mentorque in 2022.
Directed by Derick Cabrido, the film was shot in various historic locations in the Philippines, including a village built for the project to recreate an authentic setting. Also, it boasts of three timelines — combining the audiences’ love for retro horror with the immediate relatability of current terrors.
