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𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of numerous awards as a director and actor, he has been a voting member of the SAG Awards® (Screen Actor Guild / AFTRA (SAGAFTRA) Union) since 1998. Pedron was also co-founder/organizer of the Soho International Film Festival New York(USA 2010, 2011), director of the Asians on Film Festival North Hollywood California (USA 2013), director of the One FILAM Film Festival Hollywood California (USA 2013), director of the Viva Latino International Film Festival New York (USA 2015) and juror of the Sundayag Film Festival Philippines 2022. Pedron has written film reviews and interviewed celebrities on and off the red carpet since 2007.

Manila’s Finest : Raymond Red, the first Filipino filmmaker to win the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes for Anino, drags you back to Manila before martial law: a city with streetlights worth shooting under and cops who still think they are the good guys. Piolo Pascual is Homer Magtibay, a chain-smoking beat lieutenant working brothels, street corners, and precinct shadows, too compromised to be clean and too convinced of himself to stop. Enrique Gil rides shotgun. Then the student rallies gather force, a teenager turns up dead, and the men who call themselves Manila’s Finest get pulled into the machinery of a police state. The most decorated film at the 51st MMFF, eight awards deep, and a career-high turn for Pascual. A sweaty, sepia-soaked descent into how men fail, one compromise at a time.

Director: Raymond Red

Producers: Peter Dizon, Jane Basas, Manny Pangilinan, Moira Lang

Screenwriters: Moira Lang, Sharad Sanchez, Michiko Yamamoto

Cast: Piolo Pascual, Enrique Gil, Cedrick Juan, Ashtine Olviga, Jasmine Curtis, Rica Peralejo, Romnick Sarmenta, Joey Marquez, Ariel Rivera, Rico Blanco, Edwin Pamanian

Languages: Filipino with English subtitles 2025;

Length : 119 min

Country: Philippines

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