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“Ma Rosa” Synopsis  ROSA,owns a small community convenience storeconnected to their home in the slums of Metropolitan Manila. Together with her husband, NESTOR, they use their convenient store as cover-up for selling illegal narcotic, Methamphetamines. their fate changes one Saturday night when their neighbor BONG-BONG, who works as a fly-by-night parking attendant,begs her to sell him a small pack of Methamphetamine without knowing that it’s a ploy for a pending buy-bustoperation leading to Rosa and Nestor’s warrantless arrest by a police team led by Sergeant CASTOR.

2009 Cannes Best Director Brillante Mendoza talks about MA‘ ROSA, his inspiration,and the challenges in making the film. Describe Ma’Rosa in one sentence MA‘ ROSA shows us a glimpse of a Filipino family set on a typical district in Manila, giving us a slice of life in a community.

Brillante Mendoza is one of the great film director in the Philippines and he has sixteen (16) films since 2015. A 7 days intensive training from March 28- April 3, 2016 WHAT:           Brillante Mendoza Film Workshop 3 (BMFW) WHEN:           March 28- April 3, 2016 WHERE:         Centerstage Productions                         947 Busilak St. Barangka Drive, Mandaluyong City ACTING WORKSHOP (FOUND ACTING)  - A 7-day intensive workshop from 9am-5pm, inclusive of lunch and afternoon snacks -  participant is expected to act in the short film made by the directing workshopper at the    end of the workshop