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NIÑOS INOCENTES

INNOCENT CHILDREN

By Shugo PRAICO

REIN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Thriller - Development 2023

In a parochial town, a bizarre missing persons case leads a young pregnant policewoman to uncover unimaginable evils afflicting the young in the western region of the Philippines.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- TAGALOG
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Shugo PRAICO
- Producer(s)
- Charmaine GUZMAN (REIN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS), Philip Louie KING (Rein Entertainment Productions)
- Synopsis
- As Catholics commemorate Niños Inocentes — the Bible story of Herod’s slaughter of children — a remote town celebrates the dying tradition of Yawa-Yawa (Devil’s Ritual). Townsfolk in ghoulish masks and demon costumes roam the streets to dance and steal items from neighbors that day, and return the stolen items at night in exchange for food or money.
  
  Amidst this celebration, 12-year-old NENE vanishes without trace. Superstitious folks suspect the supernatural. But her family believes she was abducted by unknown assailants.
  
  This film follows the investigation of this mysterious case, through the eyes of pregnant policewoman, BADET BEROYA.
  
  While her search for the missing girl gets her involved in various interconnected crimes — from child pornography to occults sacrificing children — Beroya contemplates the abortion of her own unwanted child.
- Partners & financing
- POTENTIAL FINANCING PLAN AND DISTRIBUTION
  FILM PHILIPPINES
  As we try to look for private investors for financing along the way, we also intend to work on deals based on deferred payments with cast, crew and equipment houses for a total of $70,000. Furthermore, we are hoping to qualify in Film Philippine’s International Co-Production Fund (ICOF), where Filipino producers, under a company organized and registered as business in the Philippines and who are working with international co-productions can avail of a selective fund of up to PHP 10,000,000 or $208,000 when they conduct their production or post-
  production of their full feature film in the Philippines.
- Production schedule
- January 2022-December 2022 - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, FUNDRAISING
  January 2023-July 2023 - Pre Production and Principal Photography
  August 2023-December 2023 - Post Production
- Beginning of shooting
- May 22, 2023
- End of shooting
- Jul 17, 2023