He plays Gabby, a young accountant in a TV network who leads an ordinary life. After helping an old beggar asking for alms, he starts noticing two bumps on his back that grow into wings. As the wings complicate his life, he starts to face the consequences of being an angel. Doy says the material was inspired by an incident that Manny Pichel, the late entertainment editor of the Philippines Daily Express, related to him. Manny was also a member of the Gawad Urian along with Doy and us. “Manny saw an old beggar on the sidewalk, emaciated and dying, at least that was how the beggar looked to him,” Doy says. “He then decided to carry the dying person to a place in Tondo where Mother Teresa’s community of nuns took care of the poor and the destitute.”
The film has an all-Lasallian cast led by Sid himself, along with LJ Moreno, Christian Vasquez, Epi Quizon, Joel Torre, and theater stalwart Audie Gemora, Doy’s student, in a cameo role. Doy retired from full-time teaching in 2009 and, like manna from heaven, he was asked to do a film that DLSU could use to raise funds for the One La Salle Scholarship Fund, a La Salle centennial campaign to raise one billion pesos for 18,000 full scholars in La Salle schools nationwide. “Paglipad ng Anghel” will have its premiere night at the SM MOA on June 12, 7pm, then have a series of screenings on various La Salle campuses nationwide. Tickets are sold at P300. For inquiries and reservation, contact the DLSU Centennial Office at 524-2611 local 290.
