Coleen Garcia, Loisa Andalio to Star in Mikhail Red’s ‘Friendly Fire,’ Nadine Lustre Headlines ‘Nokturno’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Top Filipino director Mikhail Red (“Deleter”) will commence esports based film “Friendly Fire” imminently.
Red is currently serving on the international jury at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema and will commence the film as soon as he returns to the Philippines from France. “Friendly Fire” stars Loisa Andalio (“The Goodbye Girl”) and Coleen Garcia (“Kaluskos”).
The film will follow Sonya (Garcia), a visionary female CEO who wants to put Philippine esports on the map. She scouts a young female player Hazel (Andalio) from a random internet cafe, sees the potential in her and trains her. “It’s not your usual crime thriller that most of my films are, it’s something fresh for me and exciting.
I like to think of it as my most wholesome project, because it’s more inspirational and it’s a genre I’ve always wanted to try – the sports movie and the underdog sports story,” Red told Variety. “Esports is becoming quite big, especially in the Philippines, and there’s this stigma and the lack of support.
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