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John Denver Trending (2019)

John Denver Trending poster
Directed by
Arden Rod Condez
Genre
psychological drama film
Country
Philippines
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
12
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A bullied teenage boy in a rural Philippine town becomes the target of online outrage when a video of him fighting a classmate goes viral. The film follows his family and community as they deal with the fallout of the social media driven scandal.

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What happens

John Denver Trending is a 2019 Filipino independent drama film directed and written by Arden Rod Condez, and starring Jansen Magpusao and Meryll Soriano. This budget-limited film was entirely shot in the Municipality of Pandan, in Antique, Philippines. John Denver Trending won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Screenplay in Filipino. The movie also competed at the 24th Busan International Film Festival alongside other films from Kyrgyzstan, China, Iran, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan, and is part of the BIFF's New Currents section held from October 3 to 12 October 2019 at the Busan Cinema Center. John Denver Trending was also screened on March 19, 2021 at Filmgarde Cineplexes Bugis as a part of a series of films shown during the Happiness Film Festival Singapore. As of November 2022, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has recently announced that John Denver Trending is “the first Filipino film to be released with wide screenings throughout South Korea. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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