Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorTo many, Dante Basco is known as Rufio in Steven Spielberg’s “Hook.” Reality TV fans will remember him on “Hell’s Kitchen,” but over the years he has turned his hand to producing, directing and writing.In “The Fabulous Filipino Brothers,” out now on-demand, he directs and stars, along with his brothers Derek Basco, Dionysio Basco, and Darion Basco, in the film structured as a series of vignettes following four brothers as their Filipino American family prepares for the ultimate Filipino event: a wedding.As the narrative intercuts between the wedding celebration in Pittsburg, Calif., and the vignettes that focus individually on the four siblings during the buildup to the big event, Basco worked with fellow Filipino American cinematographer Andrea Walter to deliver his vision.

Says Walter, “Dante and I decided we wanted to give a different look for each brother. I also wanted a contrast between life here and life in the Philippines.

But at the heart of it, we wanted this nostalgic feeling inspired by the ‘90s.”Walter and Dante Basco incorporated the warm, nostalgic tones into the frame.

For Basco, who spent the last ten years going back and involving himself in the film community there. it was a chance to find out who he was. “I got to find out who I was as a Filipino, but I was also a Filipino American being in the Philippines.”“There was a nod to like that feeling — the romantic feeling of going home, the cathartic feeling and the warmness of going home,” Basco says.Walter says, “I kept the camera distant and cold, but once he gets home [to the Philippines] that color becomes saturated and starts to pop with colors to reflect that shift.”Basco and Walter shot the film in America and the.

‘The Fabulous Filipino Brothers’: Dante Basco on How His Return to the Philippines Helped Tell His Story

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