Lester Christal
name
Lester Christal
profession
writer & director
country
Philippines
biography
Gay and a native of the Manila slums, Cristal is no stranger to the harsh realities of life. The human experience and its many complexities triumph through his stories. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Digital Filmmaking at the School of Design and Arts of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde as a scholar. He was nominated for Best Short Film in the Philippines‘ oldest award-giving body for cinema, the 68th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS Awards).
prizes / labs
website
social media
#bagets rider FREE HD
working title
#bagets rider FREE HD
project status
in development
logline / short synopsis
Young. Wild. Exploited. When an old private video of Bryan goes viral online, the 19-year-old willful food delivery rider in a big city tries to reclaim the image of his body. This is a brutal coming-of-age Filipino short film about growing up in today’s world of social media, pornography, and commerce. ‚#bagets rider FREE HD‘ depicts a teenager’s desire to be seen and unseen as well as what it is like to be devoured digitally and in the real world—a story we cannot skip and scroll away from.