Kid Kulafu

Kid Kulafu (2015)

Before He Was Manny Pacquiao He Was..

Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he discovers his natural talent for boxing, he embarks on a brutal and intense journey that takes him from the mountains of the Philippines to the streets of Manila, and must risk everything to become a champion - for himself, his family, and his country.

Date of release
2015-04-15
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Director
Paul Soriano

Casting

Interesting facts

Kid Kulafu is a 2015 Filipino biographical sports drama film produced and released by Star Cinema together with Ten17P owned by the film's director Paul Soriano. The film dramatizes the life of the boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao during his childhood. It stars Buboy Villar, Alessandra De Rossi and Cesar Montano.

Production

Director Paul Soriano is aware that there has been a movie about the boxing champ which was the 2006 film, Pacquiao: The Movie by Star Cinema. He describes his film as focusing in Pacquiao's "mountain life" and his move from General Santos to Manila and said that the 2006 film focused more on his boxing career. The film which covered the first 15 years of Pacquiao's life, was described by Soriano as a "prequel" to Pacquiao's "championship life".

Froilan Medina was the writer of the film. Marie Pineda is the producer. The executive producers of the film are Malou N. Santos, Charo

Santos-Concio, Evangeline Del Rosario, and director Soriano. The supervising producers are Jaime de los Angeles and Erwin Blanco. The film's production design was done by Joey Luna. Mark Victor was the film's editor.

For the sound and music, the composers of were Robbie Factoran, Ricardo Jugo, and

Mark Villar. The sound designer was Mikko Quizon and sound recordist was Mark Locs.

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