Team Kovu Supports the "Agawan Base" Indie Movie

This film is about the faith of a child in God and how this faith can overthrow earthly powers and entities, which seems too large to budge. Mano’s story will prove that truth until even the unbeliever in Richelle, can be transformed. This movie also gave Kovu his acting debut!

Agawan Base is a victorious adventure-comedy-drama where the lead character is someone who we always fail to see in the stories of the films we commonly watch. God is the lead character of this film as He is in real life. Agawan Base is a love story not between two lovers, but between God and all of us - His children.

March 1, 2016 – it is election season in Manila. The candidates for Philippine President are battling it out to be the leader of a country that has become even poorer in the past six years. Corruption and poverty continue to oppress the Filipino people and the candidates are dishing out the same old promises and lies. But the children - the innocent victims of a corrupt society - go on playing the dangerous games of life.

Mano is 12. His mother Lita taught him well to have faith in God. She used to be a devoted public school teacher, but poverty has forced her to accept a job as a domestic helper in Jeddah. Rudy, Mano’s father has a low paying job which comes and goes. His younger sister Angge has just begun schooling and his grandmother has diabetes. Mano has stopped school and has become like most of his friends in the slums - a petty thief.

Richelle, a graduate student, has been using Mano and his friends as the subject of a documentary film about poor children in conflict with the law. But Richelle fails to find meaning in her own documentary... even in the lives of the children... nor in her personal life. Richelle is an unbeliever in contrast to Mano who has a faith in God, which could and would eventually “move mountains”.

Mano has one constant prayer - to see his mother walking into their small shanty once again. But she is an OFW and the OFW’s lives are always in peril. Alas, one day, after a long hard day of playing in the open field with his friends, Mano comes home to see a casket surrounded by lighted lamps and his grandmother sobbing profusely. Lita has arrived home lifeless; her body still fresh with proof of foul play and rape.

Since it is election time and all issues are fair game, the strongest Presidential candidate Senator Conde takes special interest in Lita’s case. After a much publicized visit to her wake, Conde decides to use Lita’s death to further boost his image. He hires the poor children to act in a TV commercial and secure his image as a philanthropic politician who loves the OFWs. And Mano, the orphaned child, is chosen as the lead “star” in the commercial.

During the studio shoot of this TV ad, Mano’s friend Yuri steals the cellular phone of Conde’s assistant. Unknown to the children, this phone would later be the key to changing their own lives and later, the life of this nation.

Soon, for a reason unknown to them, the children find themselves running for their lives. The men of Conde are out to get them. With the help of Richelle, they discover that the cellular phone they had stolen contains information on Senator Conde’s involvement in the illegal drugs trade.

It is at this point when Mano’s faith in God is put to the test.

Agawan Base held it's premiere nights last August 05 and 06, 2011 at the Meralco Theater in Ortigas Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. There will be no regular screenings for this movie, as with the rest of Cesar Buendia's movies. Showing will only be held in schools and special screenings. For more information, please visit their Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=213735545330975.