Service (film)

Service
Serbis
Directed byBrillante Mendoza
Screenplay byArmando Lao
Story byArmando Lao
Boots Agbayani Pastor
Produced byFerdinand Lapuz
Starring
CinematographyOdyssey Flores
Edited byClaire Villa-Real
Music byGian Gianan
Production
companies
  • Centerstage Productions
  • Swift Productions
Distributed byGMA Films (Philippines)
Release dates
  • 18 May 2008 (2008-05-18) (Cannes)
  • 25 June 2008 (2008-06-25) (Philippines)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryPhilippines
France
LanguageFilipino
Box office$155,156.00[1]

Service (Filipino: Serbis) is a 2008 Filipino independent drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza and stars Gina Pareño as the matriarch of the Pineda family who owns a porn cinema in Angeles City. The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. It is also the first Filipino film to compete at the main competition in Cannes, since Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim in 1984.[2]

  1. ^ "Serbis". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ^ "'Serbis' Vying for the Palme d'Or in Cannes". Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2008.