Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina?

Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina?

Official poster of Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina? for the 1990 Metro Manila Film Festival
Directed by Gil Portes
Produced by Mely Nicandro
Screenplay by Ricardo Lee
Story by Ricardo Lee
Starring Nora Aunor, Gina Alajar
Music by Mon Faustino
Cinematography Ely Cruz
Edited by Edgardo Vinarao
Release dates
 25 December 1990
Running time
 155 minutes
Country Philippines Philippines
Language Filipino

Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina? (Andrea, How Is It Like to Be a Mother?) is a 1990 Filipino film and an official entry to the 1990 Metro Manila Film Festival. It is a story of a woman activist (Aunor), who goes to the mountains to search for her husband who has been killed by the military. She leaves her baby with her best friend, an apolitical middle-class woman. When she comes back to claim her baby, now a grown-up boy, her fight for custody also becomes a search for truth and motherhood in an oppressive society which relentlessly destroys one's humanity. Written by Ricardo Lee and directed by Gil Portes.[1]

The film won for Aunor all the Best Actress Awards given by the five annual award-giving bodies in the Philippines that time. The film was also awarded Best Picture by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences(FAMAS), the Young Critics Circle (YCC), and the Philippine Movie Press Club Star Awards for Movies.[2]

Synopsis

The film stars Nora Aunor as Andrea, a teacher who has chosen the difficult and perilous but crusading path of armed social rebel whose husband played by Juan Rodrigo is a comrade in the underground. When it is time for her to give birth, she seeks refuge in the house of her best friend, played by Gina Alajar, and her husband, played by Lloyd Samartino, who has absolutely no sympathy for the cause which his wife's friend is fighting for.

Childless, Lloyd and Gina get emotionally attached to the baby, especially after the mother temporarily leaves the infant to look into the circumstances of her guerilla husband's death in the hands of the military. Unfortunately, before she could return to her baby, Andrea is arrested and detained in a safehouse by military men who torture her mercilessly.

Having lost contact with the freedom-fighter and presuming her to have been killed, the surrogate parents have decided to keep the child as their own and bring him to the United States for seven years. When they return to the Philippines for a visit, Andrea confronts them and tries to claim her child back.[3]

Casts

Awards

Year Group Category Nominee Result
1990 Metro Manila Film Festival[4] Best Picture Won
Best Director Gil Portes Won
Best Actress Nora Aunor Won
Best Supporting Actress Gina Alajar Won
Best Editing Boy Vinario Won
Best Story Ricky Lee and Gil Portes Won
Best Screenplay Ricky Lee and Gil Portes Won
Best Original Song Mon Faustino Won
Best Music Mon Faustino Won
Best Studio Sound Recording Rolly Ruta Won
Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina? Won
1991 FAMAS Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Best Picture Won
Best Actress Nora Aunor Won
Best Editing Edgardo Vinarao Won
Best Screenplay Ricky Lee Won
Best Story Ricky Lee Won
Best Director Gil Portes Nominated
Gawad Urian Awards (Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino) Best Actress Nora Aunor Won
Best Picture Edgardo Vinarao Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Gina Alajar Nominated
Best Music Mon Faustino Nominated
Best Screenplay Ricky Lee Nominated
Film Academy of the Philippines (Luna Awards) Best Actress Nora Aunor Won
Best Supporting Actress Gina Alajar Won
Best Editing Edgardo Vinarao Won
Best Screenplay Ricky Lee Won
Star Awards for Movies (Philippine Movie Press Club) Best Actress Nora Aunor Won
Movie of the Year Won
Young Critics Circle Best Performance by Male or Female, Adult or Child, Individual or Ensemble in Leading or Supporting Role Nora Aunor Won
Best Picture Won
Best Screenplay Ricky Lee Won

References

  1. ↑ "Nora Aunor Filmography". Retrieved 2013-01-24.
  2. ↑ Nora Aunor biography
  3. ↑ Review of Butch Francisco
  4. ↑ "Metro Manila Film Festival: Awards for 1990". Internet Movie Database.

External links

Andrea, paano ba ang maging isang ina? at the Internet Movie Database

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