The 'Ploning' Wave

Let’s watch PLONING!

I got this article from (producer) Jourdan Sebastian’s Multiply Account:

I lost my day job... pursuing this film.

Dante, the director... turned his back on a blossoming career in television to tell this story.

Guia the co-producer, left Star Cinema to pursue this dream.

Judy Ann Santos is against all odds to present "Ploning"

On April 30, Wednesday, The film we made will open in SM Cinema theaters nationwide.

We have placed all we have on "PLONING"... all bets are in and there's nothing left on our side of the table.

F-R-E-E-F-A-L-L!

It's what you feel when you just jumped out of a cliff...

without a parachute...

in faith...

and you have nothing to hold on to...

but this intangible notion that you think you heard God tell you to do something some time ago...

so you gave everything you got to do it...

God is so quiet during freefall!

Every part of my body is shaking right now... overwhelmed with all the things happening and about to happen. We just had our "Ploning" Premiere Screenings and Press Preview.

2 days our small film project will open in SM Cinemas with "Ironman" and "When Love Begins". And while we were having our Premiere, the big ads of the 2 other big films overwhelmed me. They were just so big. How can our small film even be noticed with all those big ads... Yesterday, I went through the newspaper and saw all the print ads of all the other films but ours.

Just thinking of everything that transpired these past months is making me weak and strong at the same time.

Weak - because we went through so much odds making this film happen. And we are going through so much more in these coming days and it feels like we have nothing more to give.

Strong - because I am humbled right now by our promo team. They are doing so much with the so little we are giving them to promote this film. We don't have the machinery and the resources of Big Hollywood studios or TV Networks... but I feel and believe that there is that silent rumble about our film out there. And I am believing that this buzz will translate to something great.

Strong - because we as a team are holding on only to God's assurance that we are doing all this for His Glory.

Right now I have the strong belief that we will do really really well in the box-office even if we are playing with the big boys! Kilala ko si God. I have learned to know that everytime His children steps out in faith and hold on to Him and only to Him for dire life, He delivers!

I am expecting supernatural success for our film. I say this in faith now. And as I say this I am not looking at the circumstances that we are in but at the personality of a Leader who overcomes great odds for his People. I am only boasting in My Lord who has told me that He will make us victorious!

I have cried so many times making and watching this film... and I am so proud of the film... I am so proud of the team. I have worked and collaborated with very courageous and brave men and women... and we have come out with a small but very courageous and brave film.

In the film, Mylene Dizon's character Celeste, was asked by Judy Ann's character Ploning, if she was sure with her decision to give up her life in Manila and live in Cuyo, Palawan. Her answer pretty much sums up what we are all going through right now... "Dalawa lang naman ang nangyayari kung tumalon ka sa bangin... sasaluhin ka ng Diyos o tuturuan ka niyang lumipad!"

Come April 30, Wednesday... if you believe in dreams...if you believe that Filipinos can make excellent films... if you believe that God is really doing something special in this time now...

Let me invite you, to watch "Ploning" a story of waiting, love and hope. A story of faith that love covers all!

(for more information on the film please checkout
http://www.ploningthemovie.com/)