Philippines sets Oscar entry

The Film Academy in the Philippines has published Marlon Rivera's film-within-a-film "The Woman in the Septic Tank" ("Ang babae sa septic tank") to represent the archipelago nation for foreign-language Oscar consideration. A satire round the local indie industry, pic tracks three filmmakers simply because they create whatever they hope will probably be their award-winning opus, starring thesp Eugene Domingo, who plays herself."Lady" taken the Cinemalaya Filipino Independent Film Festival within this summer time, taking home the honors for film, director, actress (Domingo), script (Chris Martinez) as well as the audience choice award inside the New Breed category."Lady" might be the directorial debut of Rivera, who's also prexy-Boss of ad firm Publicis Manila, who is the owner of fashion clothing line MNR and artistic director of store Folded & Hung.Pic first demonstrated August. 3 inside the Philippines, where Box Office Mojo Philippines ranked it third getting a gross of $333,368 its first week, beating Tom Hanks-Jennifer Aniston starrer "Ray Crowne," which bowed at No. 5. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com