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The Thank You Girls Finally Hit Manila!

January 7th, 2009

The funniest, wittiest and most endearing comedy of the year is finally in Manila!

REGULAR SCREENING: January 21-27, 2009 ROBINSONS INDIESINE

WATCH “THE ‘THANK YOU’ GIRLS” TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwyQ6Bjdfgw

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://thethankyougirls.com

If you like the trailer, forward this message to everybody in your mailing lists and egroups, advertise in your blogs or websites. Better yet, DRAG THEM TO WATCH THE FILM WITH YOU! =))

“You’ll feel more at home here than in any previous drag-queen movie. If you don’t, you’ll laugh, you’ll gasp, you may even hurl. But you’ll come out a better person.” – Vancouver International Film Festival

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The Thank You Girls Premieres in Davao TODAY!

September 8th, 2008

In case you haven’t noticed yet,  I have been posting a lot about “The Thank You Girls!” lately, and this is all because I love it so much that I can define darkness now (after watching the premiere night two weeks ago). No, I am not paid to blog about the film, nor am I getting anything in return for posting about it.  I just love the film so much that I would want everyone in the world to watch it.  Besides,  this film was shot in Davao, my hometown, and the cast and director are my kababayans! 

The Thank You Girls!  will have its premiere night in Davao City tonight, September 8, 2008 at Gaisano Mall of Davao.  Tickets are pegged at P100.00 only!  So to all our friends in Davao, go na and maki-”Char Lang!”

Regular screening of The Thank You Girls! in Davao will be from September 10 (my birthday!) to September 16 at Gaisano Mall of Davao.  

Friends from Metro Manila will have the chance to catch this film beginning September 23 (Advance Screening) at Robinsons Galleria IndieSine.  Regular run in Metro Manila will be on September 24 to September 30.

Oh and yeah, did I mention that The Thank You Girls! will be screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival on September 25 to October 10? Details about the Dragons and Tigers Competition for emerging Asian directors are on Bebs Gohetia’s blog.

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The Thank You Girls Screening Schedules

August 30th, 2008

I would like to congratulate Bebs Gohetia and the cast and crew of The Thank You Girls, not only for a successful premiere night but for producing such a fantabulous film!

For those of you who missed the premiere night, don’t fret for you will have a chance to also “define darkness” and take the beautiful journey aboard the “Char Lang” jeepney! Here’s the screening schedule:

Sept 8 – Premiere Night (Davao) at Gaisano Mall of Davao. Tickets at P100.

Sept 10-16 – Regular Showing (Davao) at Gaisano Mall of Davao

Sept 23 – Advance Screening 9:00pm Robinsons Indiesine

Sept 24-30 – Regular screening (Manila) Robinsons Indiesine

Don’t be a thank you girl and miss this film (which is set to compete in an upcoming International film festival)!



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Now who says gay indie films are all tragic and full of nudity?

“If God knows, God knows!”

(Visit the Thank You Girls official website for more info.)

Char Lang,

AJ

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Finally, The Thank You Girls!

August 26th, 2008

The long wait is over.  The much talked about and much-awaited film The Thank You Girls will finally have its world premiere!

The Thank You Girls

The Thank You Girls

On August 28, 2008 (Thursday), The Thank You Girls will be screened at the UP Cine Adarna.  The show begins at 6:30PM.  Tickets are only P100.00 and are available at the gates.

What is the Thank You Girls? From an earlier entry on this blog:

The Thank You Girls is the first film of Charlibebs Gohetia (writer of the much-talked about gay film, Daybreak). The movie is set (and was filmed) in my hometown, Davao City so this one is even closer to my heart! It’s a Visayan film with a gay lingo twist starring non-professional actors from Davao.

I have been following the filming of this movie through the director’s blog and boy was I so excited when Adolf Alix Jr, sent us an email telling us that the film has already been finished and that the trailer is already out!

Synopsis:

Tired of losing in all the beauty competitions in Davao City, five dysfunctional gay beauty pageant veterans decide to travel north to Cagayan de Oro City, in the island of Mindanao, with a mission to conquer the grandest competition of beauty, personality and brains in the province.

They believe that being city dwellers, gays in the province will never stand a chance against them.

Find out more about The Thank You Girls from their official website.

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The Thank You Girls Premieres Soon!

July 20th, 2008

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: » Read more: The Thank You Girls Premieres Soon!

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The Thank You Girls

May 5th, 2008

Here’s another interesting gay-oriented film that will surely catch the hearts and souls (souls talaga?) of everyone!

The Thank You Girls is the first film of Charlibebs Gohetia (writer of the much-talked about gay film, Daybreak). The movie is set (and was filmed) in my hometown, Davao City so this one is even closer to my heart! It’s a Visayan film with a gay lingo twist starring non-professional actors from Davao.

I have been following the filming of this movie through the director’s blog and boy was I so excited when Adolf Alix Jr, sent us an email telling us that the film has already been finished and that the trailer is already out!

Synopsis:

Tired of losing in all the beauty competitions in Davao City, five dysfunctional gay beauty pageant veterans decide to travel north to Cagayan de Oro City, in the island of Mindanao, with a mission to conquer the grandest competition of beauty, personality and brains in the province.

They believe that being city dwellers, gays in the province will never stand a chance against them.

The movie’s release is yet to be determined but we will definitely give you an update on it!

Here’s the trailer:
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