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‘Sta Nina’ is the highly anticipated entry of filmmaker Emmanuel Quindo Palo in this year’s

8th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. With the stars like Coco Martin and Alesandra

de Rossi, considered as the best in the new breed of Filipino actors, many expect that

‘Sta Nina’ is really worth watching.

‘Sta Nina’ is a movie about people believing that the corpse of a very intact dead girl can

produce miracles.

Paulino Mungcal, with his co-workers, dug unexpectedly the remains of his two year

old daughter, who’s body is well preserved in a lahar-filled quarry.

After discovering the well intact body of his daughter, Pol is now campaigning to have

his daughter recognized by the Catholic Church and make her a saint believing that the

corpse of his daughter can bring miracles and can cure the sick.

Coco Martin, despite of his busy schedule in his top rating TV drama ‘Walang Hanggan’

and filming movies, he insisted doing this indie film when he read the script even if it means

more of less sleeping hours.

The film even required Coco to carry a cross which is not new to him. It was said that Coco

does the carrying of the cross every Lenten Seasons in San Fernando, Pampanga.

And ‘Sta Nina’ also mark the return of Coco doing indie films where his tremendous career

started and honed him to be one of the finest actor we have today.

One of the big scene in ‘Sta Nina’ is when Coco did the crucifixion scene. It took them

hours to shoot in the streets of Pampanga under the extensive heat of the sun. Coco carried

the cross and and it took an hour to shoot the scene where Coco is already crucified.

The 8th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival will run from July 20 to 29 at the Cultural Center

of the Philippines.

Cast:

• Coco Martin
• Alesandra de Rossi
• Anita Linda
• Angel Aquino
• Irma Adlawan
• Nanding Josef
• Joe Gruta
• Dax Alejandro
• Bea Garcia
• Rie Batingana
• Lui Manansala

ABS-CBN Primetime prince is back in the indie scene via his Cinemalaya movie "Sta.Nina".