Manila Envelope AKA Mr. Greens' Manila Envelope...My Unmade Movie

What this Blog was supposed to be about...

back in 2004 I finally knuckled down and hammered out a screenplay...which although more nearly complete than most of my other creative undertakings is still a work in progress...this Blog was meant to be a showcase for the script, my designs and other ideas relating to the film. Lest you think I have a problem staying on topic let me assure you that it is my intention to post the script on it's own separate Blog(s)...but here's a short treatment...

Manila Envelope

After three and a half years in Australia, Canadian animator Christopher Green’s immigration difficulties have become insurmountable. His employers; Tinsel Toons Australia Pty Ltd., offer a solution. Christopher is dispatched to the company’s newly formed Manila studio, to head up the layout department.
It’s the autumn of 1985, and Sydney has been subcontracted by NooTrak Cartoons (U.S.A.) to produce the first season of “HoTW: Heroes of the World”, at its Philippine studio.
Chris takes a quick trip back to Canada, before flying to Manila via L.A., for a meeting and to collect some material from the client.
A junior secretary in Sydney, has erringly booked Christopher a ticket in Philippine Airline’s exquisitely luxurous “Mabuhay” class. Off to such an auspicious start Christopher arrives in Manila, with a feeling of relief and disappointment, to find that he’s already been demoted to assistant dept. head. Former colleague Antonio Charot is an incredibly talented artist; kind, worldly, but surprisingly, quite hopeless in his capacity as Chris’s new boss.
The next ten months will prove to be something of a trial by fire. Christopher will struggle with office politics; a language barrier, falling in love, and actually having it reciprocated.
His best friend, Rob, will have a serious mental break down, for which he’ll be hospitalized and returned to Australia.
All of this is the least of it however, when set against the last days of the Marcos regime, and the original People Power Revolution, which set off a swathe of movements around the globe that would change the rest of the world forever. Christopher will also finally finish scene 101.