List of Projects

Functioned as Notes Year Film Director Producer Writer Editor Cinematographer Actor 1997 Ties Ring, Ties Ro (aka Anything Goes) Yes Yes Yes Theater play 1998 Babayeng Buhat Yes Theater play 2001 Kapitan Berino Yes Yes Yes Co-writer and Assistant Director 2002 Kulasisi: Da Is2pid Boys Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2003 City of Samaritans Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2003 Kulasisimo: Da Return op da Comeback Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2007 Senteria Yes Yes Yes MTV for Link2Support 2007 Timpla ng Pag Ibig Yes Yes Yes 2007 Bes Lechon Manok Yes Yes 2008 Womanizer Yes Yes Yes MTV for Concentrix 2006 The Rey Simene Story Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2009 10,000 Islands and More Yes Yes Yes Canadian Travel show 2009 I love CDO TVC Yes Yes Yes 2009 Anti Drug Campaign Yes Yes Yes Yes Won 2nd prize as Best Video Ad Material 2009 Groundwater Yes Yes Yes 2010 I love CDO TVC Yes Yes Yes 2010 UseSomebody Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Uncreditted cameo 2011 BIR Short Film and documentary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Uncreditted cameo 2011 Crossfire Yes 2011 Heaven Knows Yes Yes Theater play 2011 Isang Litrong Liwanag Yes 2012 Hope Despite the Tragedy Yes 2012 New Yorker from Bugo Yes Yes Theater play 2012 I Love CDO TVC Yes Yes Yes Yes 2012 Ilaw Ng Anak: Single Brown Female Yes Theater play 2012 Bahandi Yes Yes Uncreditted 2013 HD Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2013 Wicked Yes Theater musical 2013 Kinilaw Mix Cooking Demo 1 and 2 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2013 Schizo Yes Yes Uncreditted 2013 Holcim AVP (on Going) 2013 Vitagen video Yes Yes Yes Yes 2013 Bigby's YOLO menu: Making the Video Yes Yes Yes Yes Also one of the interviewees 2013 Bigby's YOLO menu Ad version 1 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2013 Explore MisOr Video and Jingle Yes Yes Yes Yes 2013 Today Yes Yes Yes Uncredited. Written by Grey Mendoza 2014 Kuyamis Festival AVP Yes Yes Yes 2014 Goldstar Yes Yes Yes 2014 GAMA Yes Yes Yes 2015 Tea commercial Yes Yes Yes 2015 Karla Project 1 Yes Yes Yes 2015 Karla Project 2 Yes Yes Yes 2015 The F Word Yes Yes Yes Yes 2015 I am Walrus Series of Videos Yes Yes Yes 2015 LUCID Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2015 KorniKen Yes Yes Yes 2015 Rafthon/Higalaay Festival series of videos Yes Yes Other Selected Short Projects Bigby's Harlem Shake Club DSP Black Party Club DSP Red Party Holcim AVP for Daniel Bach Benjo Benaldo 2013 election Ad Mykarelli's Grill Video Club DSP Video 2014 JCI Natcon Video Imagine 2014

UseSomebody (Visayan Independent Film)

Use Somebody is a 2010 short feature independent film from Cagayan de Oro City directed by Cloyd Winstanley. The film tells the story of Jerome and Leslie, whose relationship is described as “M.U.” (Mutual Understanding). The two loved each other so much apart from them being best friends until Jerome decided to court Leslie, wanting her to be his girlfriend. The movie was filmed digitally and produced independently in which Winstanley would describe this as a “very independent film”. The indie film uses the local language of Cagayan de Oro which is Visayan.

The indie film was written and directed by Cloyd Winstanley and stars Mary Koren Witting, Tristan Capulong, Ian Nuer, Mitch Calotes, Ivie Auxtero, Arra Batobalonos, Caye Simpo and Joseph Waban. All except Calotes, Simpo, Auxtero and Waban are first time screen actors.

The indie film was the official entry for the 2011 CINEMAGIS film festival. It won 2nd BEST SHORT FILM for professional category and BEST ACTOR for Tristan Capulong.

Plot

The film begins with Jerome dressing up for a date in a vainly manner to meet his best friend and considers an “M.U.”, Leslie, at a popular Donuts shop in DV Soria, Cagayan de Oro City. Leslie is unusually cold to Jerome. The reason was that a week ago, Jerome courted Leslie and proposed that he wanted her to be his girlfriend. Leslie declines and cannot explain why. When Leslie asks Jerome why all of a sudden destroy a beautiful relationship by engaging into a commitment, Jerome also cannot give a “straight” answer. Jerome then recalls a conversation with his father two weeks earlier revealing that Jerome is in fact gay and that his father just forced him to have a girlfriend to prove he is a real man.

Cast

Mary Koren Witting as Leslie
Tristan Capulong as Jerome
Ian Nuer as Andy
Mitch Calotes as Joy
Ivie Auxtero as Kathy
Arra Batobalonos as Lizette
Caye Simpo as "Babe"
Joseph Waban as Jerome’s Father

Production

In early February 2010, M.U.S.T. (Mindanao University of State and Technology) student, pocketbook author and aspiring film maker April Sios-e approached Cloyd Winstanley and asked him that she wanted to make a student film which would be shown in a film festival to be held in her school. Sios-e pitched a story to Cloyd, who promised to help her with the production, a very odd and tragic story about a wife who committed suicide when she learns that her husband is cheating on him. Cloyd loved the story but feels that only a few might appreciate it and will lack “mass appeal”. While talking inside the M.U.S.T. campus, Sios-e thought of another story and pitched it to Cloyd. She had this idea that “What if this guy, who is gay, wanted so much to court this girl…”Cloyd thought “This could work! It’s a terrific conflict and a lot of people will relate to that.” Cloyd promised to work on the script as soon as he finishes the plot.

Cloyd woke up one early dawn due to the usual insomnia attack and decided to write the script to help him sleep. He finished the first draft in less than 2 hours and thought of the working title “Use Somebody” after one of his favorite songs from “Kings of Leon” saying that it’s “a story about two people who are very much in love and are just using each other.” Cloyd clears that the lyrics of the song had nothing to do with the story. He just thought that it would be the appropriate title and he could use the song as a soundtrack as well. He changed the title then to UseSomebody as making it a one word title.

He added that although the names of the characters are based on real people, their personalities are “totally different and fictitious.” When he writes scripts, he would be easily inspired if he would use real names of people he knows as reference and the “dialogue just flows right out of my head straight to the keyboard.”

Cloyd asked independent film producer Anilyn Bernardo to fund for the film. A very limited budget was approved in July 2010.

Casting

After Winstanley finished a series of hosting for the very successful event “Miss Silka 2010”, he then assembled a cast according to who would fit for the role. He met with theatre actor and professional wedding singer Ian Nuer who was one of the judges in some of the few pre-screenings of the Miss Silka pageant. Ramp model and former TV show host Marvin Mainit, one of the judges of the pageant, was asked by Cloyd to play the role of Jerome. Jerome, Cloyd said, has to be “vain, kinda metro sexual. So I want to cast a real-life model. But Jerome is not the type of gay who would go for another guy.” Ian was asked to play the role of Andy, Jerome’s bestfriend, whose totally gay. “I want Andy to be the life of the party. Kanang ma hugyaw ug katawa ang tao kung mu eksena na sya.” Cloyd only had Joseph Waban in mind to play the role of Jerome’s father. “Palangga kaayo si Jerome sa iyang Papa. He just can’t accept the fact nga bayot iyang anak. Barako gud kaayo siya.” Joseph played the role of Sisi in 2002 visayan independent film Kulasisi: Da Is2pid Boys and as Kagawad Johnny in the 2001 Visayan soap opera Kapitan Berino with Cloyd. He made the character, Jerome's father, a Barangay Kagawad in honor of Joseph's role in "Berino".

Cloyd was still eying for who to play Leslie. “Leslie has to be tisay. Medyo may pagka maldita. May pagka bakakon. She doesn’t show her true feelings and is very unpredictable. I also want to insert some mannerisms and I wanna make her ‘Obsessive Compulsive’.” Cloyd laughs as he thought that Leslie’s character is the most complicated of all. When Cloyd hosted the talent competition of Miss Silka, he watched as Mary Koren Witting showcased her talent which was oratorical and acting. Cloyd rejoiced “Nakakita nako’g Leslie!” and immediately offered the role to Koren. She won the title Miss Talent and 2nd runner-up respectively. After a few meetings with the cast, Marvin Mainit was replaced by ramp model Tristan Capulong due to Mainit’s very hectic schedule and reluctance of playing a gay role. Ian Nuer, who is a good friend of Tristan, suggested that the latter would be good for the role. Due to everyone’s busy schedule, Cloyd did not meet Tristan and never saw him in person until the first shooting day, the scene where Jerome meets Leslie in the Donut shop. Cloyd said “Nakita ra nako ang picture ni Tristan sa Facebook. Photogenic sya and he’s a model. That’s all that matters. I trust Ian’s (Nuer) judgment. Ako nay bahala sa ilang acting.”

In the 3rd draft of the script, the location for Jerome and Leslie’s meeting in the first scene is supposedly Mc Arthur park. (The first draft states that it should be shot inside the M.U.S.T. Campus) “Kay I want it somewhere very public and very masa.” according to Cloyd but changed the location to Dunkin Donuts DV Soria at the last minute when Cloyd, Ian and Koren had a meeting one night at the Donut shop. Cloyd looked around and thought the location would make the scene more intimate. “It’s the usual meeting place for young people. Besides, we would attract less attention kay we will shoot on a Sunday morning. Cloyd asked permission from his friend Armie Sobremesana, Dunkin Donuts Manager and she kindly obliged.

Professional Videographer Atoy Martinez lend his Sony DCR-HC46 Handy cam for the shoot

On October 24, 2010, the cast and crew shot the flashback scene with Jerome’s father and best friend Andy. Cloyd met with Arra Batobalonos, owner of the house where they shot the scene and said to her, “Gwapa lagi ka. Kabalo ka mu act?” Arra smiled and humbly said “Gamay” and was asked to play the role of Lizette.

In September, Mitch was asked to play the role of Joy. Mitch was then filming the independent film “Buring” in which she produced and played the title role.

Cloyd had grade school teacher and former call center agent Ivie Auxtero in mind to play Kathy. Ivie played a drug overdosed woman in Cloyd’s anti-drug commercial with Joseph Waban, who also played a drugged young man who’s about to jump from a building, in 2009 which won 3rd place best anti-drug TV commercial.

CITY OF SAMARITANS TRIVIA

This independent film was intended as a project for the Mass Communication class of Lourdes College 2003.

Though it was never mentioned in the film, the name of the main character is Jericho. Jericho is also its working title.

None of the characters' names were mentioned in the film.

Jericho is based on a real person who is a friend of the director, a reformed drug addict who became a Born Again Christian.

In the original script, the opening scene until the climax is supposed to happen in a highway near a gasoline station. The priest is supposed to be a pastor. Most of the script was revised for the new location which was St. Agustine’s Cathedral. The location changed due to budget constraints.
The writer and director, Cloyd Winstanley, played the “Samaritan” Khalid Alonto.

Khalid Alonto is based on a real person, a muslim who has helped the director many years back.

The script was written after the director met a freak accident which ended a life of a pedestrian, he based his character and personality on the driver’s character.

During the car scene while on his cellphone, he driver mentioned 2 names, "Jeff" and "Pay". These are based on real names of real businessmen despised by the director.

It took 3 days in separate occasions to shoot the climax scene where Gio's character, Jericho, was punched.

The car used in the film was of the Mass Comm class teacher, Madeline Ravago, who was there during the shoot.

The 2 Lourdesian passersby were best friends Reydeline Torejos and Cathy Baclay who was just there to observe the shoot. Reydeline was Gio's girlfriend at that time.

“City” was shot while filming “Kulasisimo, da return op da comeback” and the documentary “Cebu, ninduta a!” where the same Mass comm class went to Cebu for 3 days to do a documentary.

The scene where Gio's character was kneeling and praying before the statue of the crucified Christ is the favorite prayer room of the director.

City was then remade in 2008 by none other than Gio Plasos himself. This time, he played the “Samaritan”.

The sign of the cross was made 13 times in the film, none of it was made by the priest.

Ritchel Butohan and Recel Remorosa are actually non-Catholics. Recel is a seventh day Adventist while Ritchell is a member of “Ang Dating Daan”. Both were required to make the sign of the cross inside the Cathedral for their scenes.

During the last scene, Recel was afraid to go inside the Cathedral because a wake was being serviced inside. She eventually went inside after being convinced by the director.

Reydeline Torejos, helped Gio to achieve the bruised right temple by putting on her makeup on him.

The hospital was actually a nursing classroom in Lourdes College.

The blood on Gio's temple was actually Mc Donald's ketchup in a sachet brought by the director.

The whole shoot only lasted 2 months. By the time it was finished, the last shot, which Gio’s character goes out of the Cathedral, buntings could be seen which wasn’t there during the previous scene. The shot was taken days after the City’s fiesta.

Gio Plasos is now a famous disc jockey in 89.3 killer bee. he, together with Cloyd, made a lot of radio and TV commercials together.

watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v4pgOIAZ80

Gio Plasos as Jericho

RG Balarias as Jerome

RG

Director Cloyd Winstanley in a cameo as Khalid Alonto

Kulasisi: Da Is2pid Boys

Sanny Calam - Kulas
Joseph Waban - Sisi
Denah Butron - Karen
MJ Winstanley - Gina
Ian Bajao - Fr. Manzano
Bert Abaquita - Christopher

This is the first film I've ever made. I’m claiming to this date that this is the first independent film ever produced in Cagayan de Oro City.

After our local soap opera, "Kapitan Berino", ended in November 2001, out of boredom; I wrote a script about two stupid guys based on the characters that I have invented in my mind years before. Joseph Waban and Sanny Calam were immediately cast not only because they were good friends of mine and were also part of the "Berino" cast, but I could never imagine any actor who could best portray and justify the characters "Kulas" and "Sisi". When Joseph first read the script, he was reading it in my car while we were heading to Tagoloan's fiesta. He couldn't stop laughing, even between takes while filming. I even included all the bloopers in the last part of the film.

The first shooting was in July 2002. Sanny, who was then working at Ororama Megacenter as a supervisor (thus the inclusion of Ororama Megacenter in his dialogue in one of the scenes); was always never available whenever the rest of the cast is, so we have to shoot him together with Joseph in separate days, thus, resulting to some obvious lapses in some shots like Joseph’s shirt and haircut would “magically” change (which was obvious in the original 2002 edition). In a scene where the 6 main characters would have an encounter in “Karen” (Denah) and “Gina’s” (MJ) living room, the so called “encounter” never actually happened in the shoot, as I have to shoot them on different days due to schedule difficulty. I shot Ian and Bert (the priest and the Gina’s husband) first in a different house, then Denah and MJ in a different house a couple of days after (this was during daytime where the scene was supposed to happen at night), and finally Sanny and Joseph in a different house the week after. They have to pretend that they’re interacting with the other characters. After painstakingly editing everything, the result was a very hilarious climax. Ian and Bert never actually met the rest of the cast until the video premiered in January 2003 at Zilch Restobar, the night before it would be aired on local television.


The most famous and memorable scene was the “taya, taya” scene where Kulas (Sanny) has to teach Sisi (Joseph) how to play cards before they would meet Karen (Denah). This entire scene was actually Sanny’s idea. It was actually a joke he told me during taping an episode of Kapitan Berino at Lim Ket Kai mall. He wanted it to be incorporated in a scene in Kapitan Berino in which I told Director Suzzete Montes about. Ma’am Suzette thought it was a great idea but at that time, she doesn’t want to deviate from the story’s dramatic twist. She said we’d do it some other time but it never happened. So when I wrote the script, I included Sanny’s idea of the “taya, taya” joke. The result was the funniest and most memorable scene of the film. Everyone who saw the film will recall and relate it to me in a vividly funny detail. (“Joker gyud kaayo ‘tong ‘taya, taya’ bai…)

The Ororama Megacenter scene where the four characters went on a double date was also one of the hardest to shoot. Sanny was again not available, though he was there but was very busy doing his job as a supervisor that time. I shot Joseph, MJ and Denah as if interacting with Sanny in the crowded food court. After that afternoon shoot, Joseph, MJ and I had to go to a modeling practice for we were asked to model for an event. After that, Joseph and I have to go back to Ororama and shoot some scenes together with Sanny. If you look and listen closely, you would notice in some shots that would include Sanny, there are almost no people in the background and it’s more quiet for the mall was about to close that late evening.

On the last part, where Kulas and Sisi were drunk and arguing, you can see Robinson’s mall still being constructed. After it was shown on TV for the first time, The Big R was already fully operational. I also had a cameo on that scene. I played myself and as Kapitan Berino talking to Ma’am Suzette on my cellphone. During shooting that scene, the video camera kept on dying so we have to charge it for another 30 minutes. After that shoot, Joseph and I went Limketkai for our Mossimo modeling gig.

The 2007 edition features a scene that wasn’t included in the previous edition. This was a monologue done by Kulas outside of the house of Karen and Gina.

Kulasisi was a cult classic. The viewers had a very positive reaction to it. During special public screenings, I felt really flattered if the audience will laugh at every joke thrown by the characters. I love it when Joseph and Sanny are being recognized in the streets sometimes even asking for their picture or an autograph. I have seen my own work almost a hundred times now but it never seizes to amuse me. I still laugh at how they delivered those punch lines and when they made mistakes and were caught on camera. We really had a grand time shooting the whole film. It took me 3 months to shoot it and have to re-shoot some scenes a couple of months after.

With the latest software, I upgraded the opening credits and the soundtrack as well; And some editing tricks I learned along the way, like the scene where Kulas and Sisi saw Karen for the first time and she walked towards them in slow motion. When Joseph saw the 2007 edition, he thought he liked the original better. Although the original version will always have a special place in our hearts, the 2007 version eliminated most of the original version’s flaws and made it a better movie.
A very rare reunion between Kulas (Sanny Calam), Sisi (Joseph Waban) and the Writer and Director (Cloyd Winstanley) during Sanny's son's (Geoff Andrei, check out the tarpaulin at the back) birthday last July 7, 2007. Seen together with Dionne Leslie.

Denah Butron, as I'm writing this, is happily married to Ian Beltran of Concentrix formerly Link2support and are blessed with a baby boy. MJ Winstanley is currently based in Dubai as a flight stewardess for United Arab Imerates. Ian Bajao is happily married and is a pastor of a Christian Church. Bert Abaquita is still working out and joining body building competitions.

Joseph Waban is happy with his business and is living with his pregnant girlfriend. they will marry this year. He is still modelling for print ads and video productions. Sanny Calam is currently the Marketing officer of Pepsi Cola.

view the trailer if Kulasisi: Da Is2pid boys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTJCKT6Jek

Denah during a scene at Dolores Apartments.

Bert during a scene at Gracia Paluay's house.

Ian During a scene at Gracia Paluay's house.

MJ during a scene in Ororama Megacenter, an hour before the Portico modelling rehersal.

MJ's recent friendster pic.