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BLESSY
NAVAL
ANG 'PLANO NI ELIAS (The Plan/e of Elias)
Role: Director, Writer, Editor
Undergraduate Thesis for: University of the Philippines Film Institute
Location: Philippines
2012
The film recounts the story about a young Filipino family wherein the mother leaves for the first time to work as an Overseas Filipino Worker in Italy. Two days before her departure, Elias, her six-year-old son together with his friend, resort to various schemes to prevent her from leaving. From his young eyes, he will eventually learn that there is a greater world out there, more important than his toys and bigger than him.
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