Shaina Magdayao Instagram – 🐆 LOCARNO Film Festival, I shall see you next week!!! 🇨🇭 Elated to announce that our film, ESSENTIAL TRUTHS OF THE LAKE @essentialtruthsofthelake Directed by Locarno Golden Leopard Awardee LAV DIAZ, will be heading to the 76th Locarno Film Festival @filmfestlocarno Main Competition, the only Southeast Asian film competing at “Concorso Internazionale”(International Competition) on August 12 🙏🏻 We will be holding our World Premiere and Press Con in Locarno on August 6 as well 🙏🏻 To be able to represent the country, work with and for the great #LavDiaz and to be given the opportunity to be an instrument in his vision and masterpiece is already a victory for me 🫶🏻🙏🏻🇵🇭🫶🏻 Beyond grateful!!!! 🇵🇭 A film that I worked on last year, as soon as I got out of the #Probinsyano bubble 🌞 but did not expect that we’d make it to the MAIN COMP! In Switzerland!!! (My second Main Comp experience since @halimawfilm last 2018 in @berlinale, thanks to Direk Lav, Ate Haze Producers Bianca and Brad Liew) From @epicmediaph Directed by Golden Leopard Awardee Lav Diaz, “Essential Truths of the Lake” stars John Lloyd Cruz, Shaina Magdayao, Hazel Orencio, Bart Guingona and Agot Isidro. A multiple country coproduction of Epicmedia (Philippines), Sine Olivia Pilipinas (Philippines), Films, Boutique (France), Rosa Filmes (Portugal), Tier Pictures (Singapore), Volos Films Italia (Italy) and Bord Cadre Films (Switzerland). The sales agent is @filmsboutique and it is supported by @artefr 🎥 SINE NI LAV DIAZ 🐆🇵🇭