Love Child (2024 film)

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Love Child
Directed byJonathan Jurilla
Screenplay by
    • Arden Rod Condez
    • Arianna Martinez
    • Angel Benjamin
Story byJonathan Jurilla
Produced by
    • Sheron Dayoc
    • Sonny Calvento
    • Arden Rod Condez
Starring
CinematographyRommel Sales
Edited byJohn Paul Ponce
Production
companies
Regal Entertainment
Southern Lantern Studios
Release date
Running time
100 minutes
CountryPhilippines

Love Child is a 2024 Philippine drama film starring RK Bagatsing, Jane Oineza, and John Tyrron Ramos which was directed by Jonathan Jurilla. It about a young couple who would learn that their son has autism. [1]

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Cast

Production

Love Child is a co-production of Regal Entertainment with Southern Lantern Studios. [2] It was directed and written by Jonathan Jurilla. This is Jurilla's directorial debut. [3] It was produced by Sonny Calvento and Arden Rod Condez, with Calvento as the screenwriter. [4]

The film was based on Jurilla's own experience on being a father of a son with autism spectrum disorder. It deviates from the usual trope of portraying autistic people as savant who discovers and untapped talent or a film which ends in a "happy ending" according to the director. It depicts the challenges of an autistic child and his family living in Filipino society. [5]

Principal photography for Love Child took place in Jurilla's home province of Negros Occidental particularly in Bacolod, Silay and Talisay. [3]

The parents in the film were depicted by romantic couple Jane Oineza and RK Bagatsing who have described their experience in acting in the film as a "free trial" to parenthood. [6]

Release

Love Child is an entry for the 20th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival which ran from August 2 to 11, 2024 at the Ayala Malls Manila Bay. [7]

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References

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