(Above) Pseudo-psychological movie The Rapist now available on Viddsee; (Below) Filmmaker-engineers Ho Jia Jian and Derek Tan
“When I made it, I just wanted to do it for the sake of doing it, as part of my learning process,” Diane Ventura, director of The Rapist, revealed. Despite her modest aims, however, her film—a no-frills, pseudo-psychological whodunit vignette which stars veteran Filipino character actress Cherie Gil and newcomer Marco Morales in the lead—got nods from the International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) in 2012, making it to the Most Popular Films and Best Short Film lists, holding its own alongside 42 other shorts from a host of different countries.