{"id":30972,"date":"2025-07-31T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=30972"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:59:00","slug":"nyaff-flower-girl-exclusive-interview-with-writer-director-fatrick-tabada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=30972","title":{"rendered":"NYAFF \/Flower Girl : Exclusive Interview with Writer\/Director Fatrick Tabada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\">Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2c \ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27 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. \ud83d\udc49https:\/\/iffmusa.com\/ A winner of numerous awards as a director and actor, he has been a voting member of the SAG Awards\u00ae (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.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30973 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/flower-girl-poster.png\" alt=\"Flower Girl \" width=\"640\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/flower-girl-poster.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/flower-girl-poster-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Flower Girl<\/strong>&#8221; : Ena, a sanitary pad endorser, gets into a heated encounter with a trans woman in the restroom. She wakes up the next day to discover her lady parts are missing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> : Fatrick Tabada<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Fatrick Tabada<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : Octobertrain Films, CreaZion Studios, The IdeaFirst Company<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Comedy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : Filippino<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/luispedrongmail-com\/\">Check out more of Luis Pedron&#8217;s articles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"k8OMsyYtaBU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flower Girl | Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8OMsyYtaBU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0 \ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2c \ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27 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. \ud83d\udc49https:\/\/iffmusa.com\/ A winner of numerous awards as a director and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1288,"featured_media":30974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[27935,27932,16611,27931,22676,27934,27933,27936],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NYAFF \/Flower Girl : Exclusive Interview with Writer\/Director Fatrick Tabada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Flower Girl : After cruelly insulting a trans woman, Ena is struck by a bizarre curse: in the middle of an intimate moment, she discovers her vagina has vanished. 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