Brillante Mendoza presents Kadaugan on TV5 july 30
Brillante Mendoza recently unveiled Kadaugan, his latest masterpiece in the Brillante Mendoza Present series, during the press conference at Director’s Club in Mega Fashion Hall of SM Megamall. The episode will air tomorrow, July 30, at 10:30 p.m. on TV5.
Starring Dionne Monsanto, Daniel Marsh, Matt Daclan, Albert Chan Paran, Gloria Sevilla, Keanna Reeves and Suzette Ranillo, Kadaugan tells the story of Tere (Dionne), a pretty Cebuana working as a waitress.
When Tere arranges her boyfriend Johann’s (Daniel) meeting with her parents before his scheduled flight to the Netherlands, Johann is surprised that her extended family prepares a large feast to welcome him.
Everything about the night turns out fine until conversations seem to suggest for Johann to marry Tere. Surprised and unprepared, Johann admits that he is not yet ready to get married and leaves for his scheduled flight without closure in his relationship with Tere.
Three years later, Tere is now pregnant with her new American boyfriend, Frank. He initially agrees to meet Tere’s parents, but postpones it because of work. Unable to contact Frank a few days later, she discovers that Frank has already left for America. Alone again and hopeless, Tere decides to raise her son by herself.
Five years later, Johann comes back during the Kadaugan sa Mactan
Festival to surprise Tere. Johann is also surprised by the fact that Tere is already a mother, troubling him as he bonds with them in the festival. A few days later, to Tere’s surprise, Johann visits her and proposes to marry her.
Directed by Brillante and written by Eero Francisco, the heartwarming story of family, faith and love also captures the beauty of Mactan and the pageantry of the Kadaugan sa
Mactan Festival, which re-enacts the defeat of Magellan by Lapu-Lapu at the beach of Barangay Mactan.
Brillante Mendoza Presents is a collection of films made for television that merge together Filipino culture and Filipino stories. It airs once a month at 10:30 p.m. on TV5. Movies are themed according to the month of its airing — earlier episodes included Tsinoy for Chinese New Year, Everlasting for Baguio’s Panagbenga Festival, Ang Pagtatapos for graduation, Panata for Holy Week and Anak for Bulacan’s Obando Festival.
Each episode is presented in direk Brillante’s trademark cinematic storytelling style that has garnered prestigious international awards. The series explores the complexities of human relationships set against the backdrop of culturally rich Filipino traditions.
With this partnership, TV5 considers Brillante as content partner. TV5 president Chot Reyes says, “Our collaboration with direk Brillante Mendoza is a full-fledged content partnership that spans culturally significant made for TV films and a 13-episode miniseries. With this partnership, TV5 continues to uplift and improve the quality of entertainment in Philippine free TV.”
For his part, Brillante says that he agreed to do this project as his advocacy for indie films, a vision that TV5 — that has given the filmmaker full support for this creative inputs and brand of storytelling — also shares.
“With TV5’s new thrust, it’s going to be a home for independent artists and independent cinema, and I am happy to be part of it. Our goal here is to tell the Filipino story, and for this, I will — like in my films — show reality and capture life the way it is on television,” shares Brillante.