MANILA, Philippines, February 25 ------ Janine Gutierrez ventured into a nail salon business in 2019 but what she would like to focus on, business-wise, is film production. She is producing a film documentary chronicling the life of her grandmother, Asia’s Queen of Songs, Pilita Corrales, helmed by Baby Ruth Villarama. “If you’re going to ask me about business, (film production) is what I want to learn next,” she told reporters during the multi-brand store Corso Como 88’s anniversary event at the One Ayala Mall, Makati City. “We started working on the film. Of course, there are a lot of life lessons that we could learn from Mamita and I really want to honor her.”
Her family will make an appearance in the film. “We’ll make it as authentic as possible. Our director is Baby Ruth. She was on board and she was excited to share Mamita’s story. I watched ‘Sunday Beauty Queen’ before and sobrang tumatak sa akin yun.” “So, for her to be so game in like on board to direct Mamita’s life and her documentary siyempre yung archives niya, from the ‘60s lahat, sana mabuo namin. I’m really excited because grabe yung puso ni Baby Ruth as a director.” The documentary is at the early stage of the production but they already shot some interviews and footage for it. “We don’t have a deadline (yet) but tuloy-tuloy lang,” continued Janine.
The important life lesson that Janine learned from her grandmother is to put family first. She told The STAR, “Everything she does is for her family. And at the same time, as a woman, she overcame a lot of adversity. She started singing to be a breadwinner because her dad passed away. And she went through a lot.” She is thrilled to share the story of Pilita that the people don’t know about yet. “There’s so much to learn about being a woman and overcoming problems. Whatever happened, patuloy lang siyang bumabangon talaga,” beamed Janine.
Janine went on to express her gratitude to the team behind the recently concluded ABS-CBN drama action series “Lavender Fields.” She recalled that it was “very challenging” for her to take on the role of Iris at first, but with the aid of the cast and directors, she was able to pull it off. “They really, really helped and now na natapos na siya, pero meron pa ring lumalapit sa akin, (commenting), how they enjoyed the show. Sobrang nakakataba ng puso. And I’m grateful.” She felt lucky to have essayed diverse roles in her past acting projects and would love to do action-comedy genre with women empowerment as a theme in the future. “I have my full trust sa mga Kapamilya and the bosses. Not that I’m picky with (projects), grabe lang talaga yung pagpapasalamat ko rin sa kanila.”
Source: philstar.com
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