Rory Quintos:
Anak
21st Century
Group 5 Presentation

Rory Quintos
A Filipino Television and
Film Director.
She graduated from the
University of The
Philippine UP Diliman
major in Broadcasting
Born on October 31
1962(60y/o) in Manila

She is a Director and
Writer, know for Dubai
(2005), Kailangan Kita
(2002), and Anak(2000)

Anak is a 2000 Filipino family
drama directed by Rory
Quintos starring Vilma
Santos and Claudine Baretto
with Joel Torre and Baron
Geister. The film was
critically acclaimed by film
critics. It was the Philippine
submission to the 73rd
Academy Awards for Best
Foreign Language Film, but
was not accepted as
nominee.

A woman struggling to make a better life for her family
finds that her efforts have caused a problem between
her and her children in this downbeat family drama.
Josie is a mother of three children (Carla, Michael, and
Daday) from the Philippines who takes a job in Hong
Kong as a nanny for a wealthy couple for several
years. She knows she can make more money in Hong
Kong than she could at home, but also has qualms
about how her absence will affect her children,
especially when her husband died not long after she
left.
SUMMARY

When Josie returns home, she has gifts for
everyone and savings from her salary, which
she plans to use to start a business. Her
children, however, don’t welcome their mother
with open arms. The younger kids, Daday and
Michael, are guarded around Josie, and while
they eventually mend their relationship with
their mother, the oldest, Carla, does nothing to
disguise her resentment for what she sees as
callous abandonment of her family.

Carla openly challenges Josie’s
authority, starts dating boys she
knows her mother wouldn’t approve
of, flaunts her burgeoning sexuality,
begins using drugs, and has multiple
abortions.

In the end, Carla realized what she
has done and understands the
reason why her mother didn’t return
home at the death of her father. She
forgives her and changes her ways,
and promises to take care of her
younger siblings when she went
back to Hong Kong.

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