{"id":11126,"date":"2014-05-28T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2014-05-28T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:13:56","slug":"faraway-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=11126","title":{"rendered":"Faraway – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Audrey, a determined young American woman, arrives in the Philippines with a mysterious mission, little money, and no chance of success. But when she enlists the help of two friendly locals, Hazel and Rey, and an extremely unfriendly American expatriate, Nick, suddenly the possibility of success comes into view. All they have to do is cross 300 miles of roads, jungles, and ocean, ward off the attacks of a vicious local motorcycle gang, and keep themselves from killing each other. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.<\/p>\n

Bumpy ride is an understatement with all the adventure, comedy, drama and literally bumpy ride on the remote roads for this road trip that was brought to us by writer\/director Randal Kamradt’s production company Soliloquy Films and Maria Olsen’s MOnsterworks66.<\/p>\n

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Trailer: <\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fHYsSVvL-h4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The journey begins fun and carefree with Audrey (Dana Jamison) pursuing an ancient Philippine\u2019s legend. Audrey is a determined woman that takes no crap, but she\u2019s not mean about it and she\u2019s very likeable. She recruits Nick (Nick Medina) as her guide. Nick is another American, who is a screenwriter that lost his agent and has nothing to lose. He\u2019s very sarcastic and occasionally lazy, but also helpful. Their conflicting yet complimenting personalities add to the entertainment of the film. As expected a strong relationship builds between the two over the course of their journey and I can even see the two doing a sequel.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after they begin their travels, they catch a ride with the young and in love couple Hazel and Rey who ran away from their parents not accepting their relationship. Rey \u201cborrowed\u201d his aunt\u2019s vehicle, a true shaggon wagon.<\/p>\n

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Genelyka Castin plays the role of Hazel and Leonard Olaer plays Rey. Both of them in real life are Philippine residents, along with other cast members. We asked Randal\u00a0how he casted the local talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenelyka and Leonard came to us through auditions. We actually went to the local university and asked the faculty if we could see and audition some students, whoever they thought would be ideal. There isn’t an acting program at their school, but they often do dance presentations and such. There were several promising female candidates, and Genelyka stood out as the best based on her attitude, english skills, looks, and some solid prior acting experience. None of the men sent by the school stood out to us, so it seemed that Rey would be the much tougher part to cast. After we’d seen everybody for that day and we were packing up, Leonard burst through the door. He hadn’t been selected to audition, but heard about us through rumors around the school. He basically demanded an audition right there and stated that he was the one and only true candidate for the part. His passion was acting, and this was finally his big chance. It didn’t take long for us to realize that he was right, and after a brief interview we agreed to do the movie together.\u201d Randal shared.<\/p>\n

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