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Paul Soriano is a scriptwriter, award winning director of films and producer. At Los
Angeles in California, he was born to a family who was already interested in movies and were
associated with the world of film (IMDb, 2019). Later on, he started his career after shifting to
Philippines and kick started directing music videos, concerts and commercials which came into
Television. After that he shifted towards creating feature films of full length and short films. In
today’s date, Paul Soriano happens to be one of the top directors of television commercial in
Philippines. He has directed large number of television commercials for companies such as
Kraft, Unilever, Smart Communication, Unilab, Enchanted Kingdom, Honda, Globe Telecom,
Chevrolet, Pizza Hut and so on. Till now, he directed five movies that are feature films. Thelma
in 2011, A Journey Home in 2009, Dukot in 2016, Kid Kulafu in 2015 and Siargo in 2017. He
won many number of Best Director and Best Picture awards in the film festivals both in abroad
and Philippines.
He happens to be an experimental artist when it comes to films. He never sticks to any
one kind and experiments with his creativity. He mostly makes films on topics related to Mental
Health, Homelessness, Inclusivity and Cultural Diversity. The films related to mental health
showcases or portrays issues that a person suffers from. Through his movies, Paul Soriano
showed messages and probable measures that could be taken by the people actually suffering
from mental illness i real life. The homelessness theme of movies showcases or revolves around
the topic where the protagonist does not have home. He shows the struggles a homeless person
has to go through and how the difficulties tend to break down the morale of a human being
(Valera, 2015.) He also shows how to overcome them and how to hold on courage for going on.
Inclusivity in movies deals with all the requirements and need involved in a person’s personal
life. It showcases daily life and its object around which an individual revolves in society. The

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cultural diversity shows the different aspects of a culture and portrays the reality of culture in
reel. All these aspects in a movie more or less shows the life of an individual and the place where
the individual sustains. Movies exist to entertain as well as educate the people in society. When
the happenings of society are shown on screen by a creative mind, it holds a power to change or
at least questions the mind of its audience (Smithikrai, Longthong & Peijsel, 2015.)
In any sort of project, be it movie or any art forms, a proper research needs to be
conducted before transforming the dream or idea into reality. Director Paul Soriano happens to
be an independent filmmaker. He undergoes a procedure of research where he travels to places
and gets impacted by looking around the happenings in a society. He says that transforming the
dream into reality is the big deal. Everyone dreams but it is very important to transform that
dream into reality otherwise it just gets wasted. He practices and introduces ways through which
the dream can be transformed into reality (Zhou & Liu, 2018.) Imagination is a great tool and
more powerful than knowledge but only when it is executed otherwise the imagination is of no
purpose. He always insisted on taking the positive route when making a film. Philippines is
already engrossed into films that revolve around dark controversies but Soriano choses to do
fi8lms that provie4 an inspirational route to its viewers. His movies mostly revolve around
solidarity, family, forgiveness and upholding values that are related to morality.
The artist funds for his movies through the commercials he does for televisions. He has
been into the business of television commercials since a long time. He finds for sponsors who
can support the movie but when there is no sponsor available, he collaborates with a production
house that buys his script. In the business of movie making, funding plays an important role
because without that the imagination cannot be turned into reality. The movie requires a proper
set, lights, casts and a team of large number of people. Without proper funding there is no use of