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Little Boy Big Boy

Digital Viva presents a BEYONDtheBOX production

A young gay professional, his lover, and his nephew. Three lives sewn together by fate.

Little Boy Big Boy tells the tale of the carefree soul of a freelance graphic artist, Raymund (Paolo Rivero), and how he is filled with doubts as he is suddenly confronted with the responsibility to look after his seven-year-old nephew, Zack (Renz Valerio).

While taking care of his nephew, he meets a closeted young man named Tim (Douglas Robinson), and the two fall in love. He educates his new lover about the importance of accepting oneself, especially at a time when prejudice against gays is still accepted as the norm. The film also tackles opposing views on fidelity in the homosexual set-up. And it shows a gay man’s capacity to nurture; and how the homosexual is not just an organism of pleasure, but also a catalyst for unconditional love.

Under the direction of Joselito Altarejós and the pen of Lex Bonife, Little Boy Big Boy is a realist window on the lives of many young Filipino gay men today. How they’ve come a long way, and how they’re slowly getting there.

It stars Paolo Rivero as Raymund, Douglas Robinson as Tim, and Renz Valerio as Zach.

Digital VIVA

BEYONDtheBOX

Present

JOSELITO ALTAREJOS’

LITTLE BOY/BIG BOY

PAOLO RIVERO, DOUGLAS ROBINSON

and RENZ MICHAEL VALERIO

with SOPHIA BAARRS, RAY AN DULAY, MAY-I FABROS & MARC JACOB

Story & Screenplay LEX BONIFE

Creative Consultant CEL SANTIAGO

Production Design LESTER JACINTO

Editing ONAY SALES

Music & Sound RICHARD GONZALES

Director of Photography ARVIN VIOLA

Associate Producer HERMIE GO

Line Producer MARKK PERETE

Supervising Producers VALERIE S. DEL ROSARIO

JONATHAN LING ALIGADA

Producer VINCENT DEL ROSARIO III

Director JOSELITO ALTAREJOS

DIRECTOR'S NOTE:

“Big Boy” has turned out to be an adult gay-drama with lots of sensitive scenes, heart-warming moments and insights on relationships- gay or straight.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE FILMMAKERS:

- LEX BONIFE is a Filipino screenwriter and a yoga teacher.

Among his works are the controversial hit gay films "Ang Lihim ni Antonio" (Antonio's Secret) and "Ang Lalake sa Parola" (The Man in the Lighthouse). In 2009, he was named by Outrage Magazine as one of the "movers and shakers" of the Filipino "Gay Community"

- JOSELITO ALTAREJOS is a television and film director.

He is also the Creative Director of BEYONDtheBOX, a group of media practitioners, which was formed in 2003. The group produces TV Commercials, Audio Visual Presentations and gives TV Production Workshops.

Altarejos’ other digital films, Ang Lalake sa Parola, Ang Lihim ni Antonio and Kambyo, were all in collaboration with Lex Bonife.

ANG LALAKE SA PAROLA, a film about search for oneself, was both critical and commercial success. It was Graded B by the Philippine Cinema Evaluation Board which called it “a thinking film.” Parola also earned a nomintaion for Justin de Leon in the Best Supporting Actor Category in the 2008 Golden Screen Awards while Jeng Torres and Pot Manda were nominated in the Best Production Design Category in FAP’s Luna Awards.

His other film, ANG LIHIM NI ANTONIO, a cautionary coming-of-age tale gone tragic, is still considered the highest grossing digital film shown in Robinsons Cinemas. ANTONIO has been invited to different festivals abroad like Rochester's IMAGEOUT & Queen's CINEMAROSA both in New York. When it had the European Premiere in Torino GLBT Film Festival, it was hailed, together with Aureus Solito’s Boy, as the new wave of Philippine gay cinema.

ANTONIO earned for its lead actor KENJIE GARCIA nominations in Golden Screen Awards' Breakthrough Performance by an Actor and Best New Movie Actor in Star Awards this year. While SHAMAINE BUENCAMINO was also nominated in the same award-giving body in the Best Supporting ActressCategory.