HYDEntertainment: Hospital Boat (2009)

A Mindanaoan Independent Film written and directed by Arnel M Mardoquio.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:

Arnel Mardoquio (Skyweaver Productions)

Dax Canedo (Alchemy of Vision and Light Film & TV Productions)

Fe GingGing Hyde (HYDEout Entertainment)

in coordination with:

NCCA (National Commission for Culture and Arts)

33rd GAWAD URIAN AWARDS 2010 NOMINATIONS:

Best Film

Best Director: Arnel Mardoquio

Best Supporting Actress: Jea Lyka Cinco

Best Cinematography: Dax Canedo

Best Production Design: Bryan Bajado

Best Music: Gauss Obenza

STARRING:

Marvin Mindog as Nikol

Rochelle Venuti as Dra. Sittie

Joan Mae Soco-Bantayan as Sister Claire

Jamee Rivera as Muktar

Jea Lyka Cinco as Lensha

Michael 'Mikey' Aportadera as Father Allan

Fe GingGing Hyde as Congresswoman Fatmawatti

Basilidas Pilapil as Bapa Malid

Official Website: http://hospitalboatthemovie2009.webs.com/

SYNOPSIS:

Orphaned by war, 12-year old Nikol found a new home in Isla Kalilintad, an island community of people from different cultures and faith traditions. He was forced to become an adult at a tender age, trying to eke out a living to feed Langit, his younger brother. By serendipitous circumstance, Dr Sittie and Sr Claire, a team of humanitarian workers on a mobile medical mission, visited the isla before they proceed to the other smaller islands. Nikol, eager to grab the chance to work, presented himself as a natural healer and got accepted as an all around utility person for the mission. The mobile medical mission which runs on a low budget, relies on fishing boats offered by the communities they serve as they make their way to far-flung villages rarely reached by medical services from both government and private sector. Each journey to these unknown frontiers bears stories of struggle and survival of people affected by war and extreme poverty.

Sittie, a medical doctor, decided to return home to her father’s village in Isla Kalilintad to serve as a community doctor. Sr Claire, being a nurse herself, volunteered to be part of the team as her vocation and mission duty.

In one of their mission routes, Nikol met Lensha, a thirteen year-old lass who was in deep trauma due to rape and war. Nikol got smitten with her at that instance. Lensha stayed with the medical team as a form of therapy and as the days go by, these youngsters grew fond of each other.

Nikol, Sittie, Claire, Lensha and the rest of the islanders converge in different settings as the story unfolds. Amid the social landscape of poverty, warlordism and unending cycles of violence—the humanitarian mission continue to brave the waters, putting at risk even their own lives for the greater good.

Hospital Boat symbolically depicts a journey. A journey to the road less taken by few courageous souls; a journey filled with love, friendship and a dream of a peaceful tomorrow.

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