MANILA, PHILIPPINES — If, as Oscar Award-winning storyteller Ronnie Del Carmen puts it, to go international is to go hyper-local, then Kurt Soberano’s Under a Piaya Moon is a Filipino film meant for the global stage. Despite a few glaring technical issues, the material itself is marvelous, able to transcend the shortfalls of an abbreviated … Continue reading Under a Piaya Moon deserves an international release — with mild reservations