The Thank You Girls Premieres Soon!

Posted by AJ on 07.20.2008 at 4:57 am

I am glad that there are many Filipino independent films that have homosexuality as a running theme. However, I noticed (like many of you have), that many of these films are usually too tragic, too gory, too predictable, and have too many unnecessary nude scenes. Whenever “Gay Indie” is mentioned, people would easily associate it with either scenes of death or scenes of men in various states of undress.

Then comes, The Thank You Girls!

I know I have posted about it previously, but I just couldn’t help posting about it again since the premiere night already has a definite date and that it will be shown really soon! The Thank You Girls will have its premiere night on August 28, 2008 at the UP Cine Adarna (formerly UP Film Center), UP Diliman at 6:30 PM.

The Thank You Girls, written and directed by Charliebebs Gohetia (writer of the hit Daybreak), is about beauconeras (beauty contestant veterans) from Davao City who got tired of losing beauty competitions there. These queens of the backstage decide to travel to Cagayan de Oro City in hopes of conquering the grandest competition of beauty, personality and brains in the province. (Trailer after the jump)

The movie uses Bisaya/Cebuano as its primary language combined with variations of gay lingo! (For those of you who are not aware, gay lingo/swardspeak also differs from one are of the Philippines to another). Of course there are subtitles, but with or without them, this film still promises to be one heck of a laugh trip as it also introduces very catchy and witty lines, in English and in local swardspeak. Take these lines from the trailer as an example:

Question: Another question for you Ms. Adora Gracia. For you, define darkness.

Answer: Well, that is a very enlightening question indeed. And if I were to define darkness, it’s sitting right beside me.

and

If God knows, God knows!

These five lovely ladies are so confident that they will conquer the competition since they are city dwellers and gays in the province will never stand a chance against them. Very imperialistic lasses, you might say? Will they achieve their goal of conquering the grandest byukon (beauty contest) in the province? Or will the provincial lasses give them a run of mascara? We’ll find out soon.

The ‘Thank You’ Girls Teaser
by bebsg

And who says gay films are just sex films? =)
The Thank You Girls is Produced by Brooklyn Park Pictures in cooperation with Bicycle Picutres and Alchemy of Vision and Lights. Visit the official website here: The Thank You Girls and the director’s blog here: Mga Konsepto ng Bagay-Bagay Bilang Tao.