Nathan J. Sotto

Four individuals in different parts of the world have one thing in common - a 100 US Dollar Bill

A young man’s quest for truth and justice interwines with a plane crash mystery, uncovering a sinister plot that propels his desire to be heard but also threatens his community.

It is like any other day in Artiaga Street when men eat dogs and get drunk and women have to succumb to their husbands’ aggressiveness. Mariana, pregnant with her second child has been planning for this day. She is fed-up. She wants to break loose. On the ground floor, her husband’s dog barks incessantly. Upstairs the baby cries constantly waiting to be fed. She has to fight. A woman, too, has rights. Confronting her drunken husband and the dog, she makes one last bid for freedom that might finally set her free.

A teenage boy who, while searching for his father and accidentally killing his best friend, gets his life turned upside down and learns the destructive realities about life, death, and beasthood.

Carlo, a left-handed teenager struggles to break free from his father’s rigid expectations, using his art to express a truth that once tore their family apart.

On her way home, Dina, early 20s, was horrified by the strange sound of a 'Tiktik', a mysterious creature that preys on pregnant women to consume the unborn. The night promises to be brutal but whose fate will be compromised? Will Dina survive the night?

On the eve of her school’s annual Talent Show in a small rural village in the mountains of Iloilo, twelve-year-old Thirdy is worried she will not be able to perform because she could not afford to rent a traditional costume and pay the required contribution. Her ailing but affable grandfather, Cesario, acts as her sole guardian. He works as a bamboo farmer, but they could barely make ends meet. In the midst of all these, Thirdy starts having visions of a mysterious man. She believes the apparition is that of her long dead father while everyone else dismisses her visions as nothing more than fantasies or illusions. On the day of the Talent Show, everything unravels as village problems and family secrets finally collide.

A father and daughter tandem (both exceptional scallop divers) sold a clam allegedly containing a pearl worth millions. Blinded by his insatiable desire to find another gem of the same worth, the father makes thoughtless decisions compromising the only thing worth holding his breath for–his daughter.

Two young siblings go on a fantastical adventure to satiate their much-coveted and delectable craving for batsoy.

When young sisters Lala and Marlin were orphaned, nobody was there to help them except for an old woman rumored to be an Aswang.