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here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

–Lyrics from “Wake me up when September Ends” by Green Day

It’s already the middle of September and I get the feeling that I’ve becoming such a slouch, in terms of my writing and when it comes to the SineBuano activities. I’ve got to pick up the slack, somehow.

We, the group, were supposed to have a meeting last Sunday, September 14, to discuss about my latest screenplay which I hope to propose as the latest project slated to be shot this October. Titled presently as “Maria”.

But slouchy old me, I don’t have the complete script on my home PC nor on my laptop? It wasn’t in my flash drive either and so the obvious place it could have been in was in my office PC where from time to time, when work is light or I needed a change– I do additions to many scripts. The present e-copies which I had at home where only three or four pages of the “Maria” script so immediately that Sunday morning, I texted everyone about this sudden cancellation, explained the reason and prayed to God that they would have understood.

So, today I have the complete copy of the “Maria” script but am now having second thoughts of sending it out for evaluation. It’ll need a bit of tweaking. I wish I could share more on what “Maria” is about but it’ll be a secret for now since production hasn’t started. We’ll be doing rehearsals and planning and prop procuring starting from now on.

What I’ll tell you though that as a visual piece,  it is a study on “acting”, it is a human drama, it is a woman’s drama. The current script is actually 1/2 of a greater whole and I’ve decided to simply make it Part 1 of what could be a SineBuano trilogy.

Okay, that’s enough secrets let out for now. Wait, you still want more? All right. “Maria” is actually the second short screenplay I wrote since “Rewind” wrapped up shooting. I previously completed another script for another short feature, “Libra” (Tentative title) which is presently with our Technical Director, Jomark who’s planning to have it in storyboard first before he helms it as director.

Basing on our past attempts of including storyboards during pre-prod, this might take a while. One exception was the “The Witness by Carlo Borromeo” which was available first as a comic, before it became a SineBuano feature.