Sci-Fi · Drama · Central Visayas
Signal
Somewhere above Cebu, her mother is still transmitting.
- 2026
- 9 min
- Cebuano
- Subtitles: English, Filipino
A radio hobbyist starts receiving messages from a satellite her mother helped build.
The story
A Cebu radio hobbyist picks up a transmission from a decommissioned satellite. The voice reading coordinates belongs to her mother, an engineer who died abroad.
Credits
- Director
- Tess Abellana
- Writer
- Paolo Del Rosario
- Cinematography
- Lia Esguerra
- Editor
- Dom Sy
- Music
- Trina Torres
- Cast
- Jomar Valdez, Mika Javier, Yuri Reyes
Details
- Runtime
- 9 minutes
- Rating
- 13+
- Language
- Cebuano
- Subtitles
- English, Filipino
- Made in
- Central Visayas
- Released
- September 17, 2026
The filmmaker
Tess AbellanaDirector, Writer · Lapu-Lapu City, Central Visayas · making films since 2018Tess writes science fiction for families with someone working overseas. Her films are full of radios, satellites, and long-distance calls.Part of
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