The film is based on the classic philippine short story tanabatas wife by baguio born author sinai hamada. Eventually, tanabata and fasang fell in love and lived together as husband and wife. Incidentally, ong who is an awardwinning literary artist reinvents himself into a cinema artist. Tanabata, a man who live in baguio where it is cold and a place where you can watch movies that is relaxing. Tanabatas wife a tofarm filmfest 2018 official entry tofarm film festival. Garcia sinai hamada fred hawson nap jamir francis c. Tanabatas wife a tofarm filmfest 2018 official entry. Bontoc is the center of another cordillera province called mountain province. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The writerdirector, charles ong, felt that the story has to be presented in the cinema. Tanabatas wife is the story of fasang, the native bontoc woman in the story finds work in the vegetable garden of a japanese named tanabata. Umali, iii anna christie villarbatorres ang librong tanabatas wife. A short film portraying the short story tanabatas wife by sinai hamada patrick pascua director chrisette cariaga asst.
Even if they soon have an infant son kato, differences in their culture eventually crept its way into their relationship and threatened it. Tanabatas wife is based from sinai hamadas short story that was written in 1932. Tanabata was watching a movie in a movie house and he met a girl. Tanabata is later attracted to fasang s youth and industrious nature.
Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Macansantos charlson ong mayi guia padillia choy pangilinan mao portus juan carlo tarobal amparo adelina c. When at last she emerged from her weary travel over the mountains, she found herself just above the trinidad valley. Tanabatas wife sinai hamada i fasang first came to baguio by way of the mountain trail. From there, she overlooked the city of baguio itself. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search.