No animal killed in ‘Tatlong Bibe’ the movie

The issue of the so-called “dog slaughtering” in Alvin Ypan’s Oro has awakened animal rights consciousness among Filipinos including entertainment journalists.
During the grand launch of Regis Films and Entertainment’s Tatlong Bibe, the straight drama movie to open nationwide on March 1, 2017, a major question asked was whether there were ducks killed during the shoot of the full-length feature. This was casually denied by writer/director Joven Tan.
Three children, as played by Raikko Mateo of Honesto fame, Marco Masa of Nathaniel and Lyca Garainod, The Voice Kids first grand winner, search for three missing ducks. Meeting in a barrio road, they immediately form frienships that led them to find selfless love in the process.
As it was shot in an agricultural farm, it involved a variety of animals. “Meron ding baboy, baka, aso na ginamit sa pelikula pero naalagaan sila rito nang maayos kagaya ng pag-alaga sa aming mga artista,” shared Joven, who also composed its theme song.
Instead, the three kids learn positive values of life in trying to solve its knots and bumps by turning to the simple solution of prayers to God. Tatlong Bibe makes great viewing for city-bred children as they will visually experience of the three rural kids, making it as a personal adventure.
Marco and Raikko are Star Magic artists, who starred on drama series that revolved around their respective characters. During the open forum, Rita recalled how Marco guided her in a scene they did together. They are friends in real life. Marco is attending real school, while Raikko is doing home study.
Others in the star-studed cast are Eddie Garcia, Rita Avila, Sharlene San Pedro, Victor Neri, Luis Alandy, Edgar Allan Guzman, Ronnie Lazaro, Dionisia Pacquiao, Anita Linda and JK Labajo with the special participation of Angel Aquino. Also included are Perla Bautista, Nikki Valdez, Lou Veloso, Janna Trias, Dianne Medina and Ernie Garcia.
To watch for is Dionisia, more popularly known as Manny Pacquiao’s mother and as Mommy D. She goes out of the box by doing a serious role this time.
The movie was submitted to the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival under another film production company, but it did not make it to the eight official. Tatlong Bibe was saved by Regis Films and Entertainment. A partnership between manpower exporter Anicia Joson-Regis and entertainment professional Edith Fider, Regis Films and Entertainment plans to engage in films production and producing shows and concerts.

JUSTICE TO ALVIN YAPAN AND ‘ORO.’ In government, being a newbie is not an excuse for incompetence. Such is what happened when the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival Executive Committee and Selection Committee picked Alvin Yapan’s Oro as official entry and even meted it with awards, but failed to justify its decision in the “animal slaughtering” charge when accused by the Film Development Council based on questionable bases.
This is gross injustice!
What is the use of the finished film submission of the 2016 MMFF when such entries could not be used as a reliable basis of acceptance? Oro was accepted so any issue about it afterwards is necessarily the responsibility of the 2016 MMFF organizers and they must be responsible. But no, they even failed to defend it against the opinion of guilt of Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) chair Liza Diño-Seguerra.
There was no deliberate slaughtering of two dogs in the film. The footage used in the film was shot from ritual so it can qualify with the exception of depiction of local culture that is exempted by the law. The trouble here was they based the guilty decision from unofficial sources.

JOHN LENNON’S LAST GOODBYE. “A very, very strong image,” Annie Leibovitz describes in CNN Talk Asia in July 2016 about the photo she took on the morning of December 8, 1980 of a naked John Lennon on top of wife Yoko Ono wearing all black.
“The very same day, John was killed — his murder. It was like our last goodbye — his last goodbye,” tells the celebrity photographer when she brought to Hong Kong her Women: New Portraits retrospective.
The now iconic photo, one of Leibovitz’s best images, was from an improvised shoot by Polaroid in the bedroom of their Dakota Apartments unit in Manhattan, New York City. She was shooting for Rolling Stones magazine that had assigned a cover photo of Lennon to promote his newly released Double Fantasy album. Lennon was able to have Yoko in the picture, too.
She refused to strip down, however, which Lennon readily accepted. Wearing no makeup, she did not hesitate to lay down on the cream-colored carpet as Lennon posed naked on top, clutching her, sucking her left cheek. Done in minutes, Lennon and Ono happily exclaimed to Leibovitz, “You’ve captured our relationship exactly.”
This was the second time Lennon posed naked for cover material, the first by delayed camera for the jacket of the Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins album.
After the photo shoot, Lennon and Ono were interviewed by San Francisco DJ Dave Sholin to air on the RKO Radio Network. They left their apartment at 5:45 p.m. for the Record Plant Studio to mix Ono’s song “Walking on Thin Ice” where Lennon played lead guitar.
On their way to the studio, visiting 25-year-old security guard from Hawaii Mark Chapman waited for Lennon and asked him to autograph his copy of Double Fantasy. Having obliged, Lennon asks, “Is this all you want?” Chapman flashed an ominous smile and just nodded.
The Lennons spent five hours at the studio, lovingly announcing to Ono after, “This is going to be your first number one.” They returned to the Dakota at approximately 10:50 p.m., skipping dinner in a restaurant as Lennon wanted to be with five-year-old son Sean.
Back to the Dakota, he recognized Chapman standing in the archway. His back turned, Chapman aimed a Charter Arms .38 Special revolver directly at the center of his back, successively firing five bullets. Lennon moans, “I’m shot, I’m shot,” and he fell on the concrete floor.
Rushed by ambulance to the Roosevelt Hospital dutifully followed by Ono, a doctor pronounced Lennon dead on arrival at 11:15 p.m. Ono sobbed and cried, “Oh no, no, no, no ... tell me it’s not true!” She requested to delay the television announcement as Sean might be watching and wanted to be with him.
Lennon died, but not his beautiful music and powerful message as Ono serves as their faithful keeper.
Leibovitz’s natural and minimally retouched photo served as epitaph on the January 1981 cover of Rolling Stone. Sean recreated its concept in reverse in 2011 with him fully clothed and his model girlfriend Kemp Muhl on top of him exposed. His mother curiously dismissed it as “plagiarism.”