Award-winning female actor debuts as lead star
The local showbiz industry still favors mestiza types of female actors.
Yet once in a while, abrown-complexioned Pinay like Jhassy Busran is fortunate enough to be cast in a romantic comedy movie, whose indie producers plan to enter it in the 2022 Metro Manila Film Festival.
The movie, Home I Found in You, currently on post-production stage, stars Jhassy, 16, with two upstarts John Heidrick Sitjar and Harvey Almoneda.
It is produced by a new company, REMS Film.
Jhassy Busran and family at her 16th birthday party.
The movie marks Jhassy's first lead role in a full-length film, though she has appeared in a short film, Pugon, for which she won best actress at the Manhattan International Film Festival in 2021.
In Pugon, she portrays a minor whose parents "pawn" her to a bakery owner to pay for their debt. The always impressive actor Soliman Cruz plays the ruthless bakery owner.
Pugon director Gabby Ramos said his family had in their employ a domestic helper pawned by her own parents. When her parents died, other elders of the clan pawned her again to Ramos' family.
