Laotian-Australian actor Ananda Everingham joins our Filipino co-stars Zanjoe Marudo and Luis Alandy in the upcoming Adolf Alix, Jr. film, “Kalayaan (‘Wildlife’).”
“Kalayaan,” set in the lovely Palawan, centers on the lonely lives of Filipino soldiers stationed in the Spratly islands.
The stories starts when Julian (Ananda Everingham), a soldier stationed in Kota Island, is packing his things. He is ready to leave Kalayaan, part of the Spratly Islands being claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines.
He already completed his three months of service. But news of a pending coup d’etat in Manila orders him to stay in the small island until further notice. With nothing much to do, he spends his waiting hours walking by the beach front. His only option for survival is to cope with reality or lose his own sanity.
Written and directed by Adolfo B. Alix Jr., “Kalayaan” is one of the 10 films that received a script development grant from the Hubert Bals Fund, a project of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The Global Film Initiative likewise awarded “Kalayaan” with production funding, along with nine other films, as part of its Winter 2012 granting cycle.
