Esoterika:Maynila will have a limited screening at the Shang Cineplex, EDSA Shangri La Mall. Produced by T.rex Productions in cooperation with the Film Development Council of the Philippines, ESOTERIKA:MAYNILA (global title: ESOTERICA:MANILA) stars Ronnie Liang and a muti-lingual cast of cross-cultural persuasions. Multi awarded Elwood Perez directs the screenplay by awardee, eminent critic and book author, Jessica Zafra. Rex A. Tiri is the Executive Producer.

The limited screening marks the firs time Esoterika:Maynila will viewed by the public following its successful premiere in Hong Kong. In August this year, Esoterika: Maynila held a successful gala screening at the 11th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Esoterika, described by a reviewer as a wild, fascinatingly profound joy ride around Manila, has fetched glowing reviews form critics everywhere.
Joel David, professor at Inha University and founding director of UP Film Institutes, writes: "First with Otso and now with Esoterika: Maynila, Elwood Perez has demonstrated what was previously considered impossible: That a Filipino filmmaker can become even more creative and vital as an elderly citizen. Finally, a model of reflexive audience-friendly productivity that an entire generation of indi-digital practitioners can aspire toward."

Nicola B. Pichay, top playwright, Palanca Hall of Fame and National Book Awardee, says: "In Esoterika: Maynila, Elwood Perez continues the cinematic tradition of paying homage to a city. Part diary, part fantasy, the movie evokes campy-kitschy-surreal Manila. Briny and existential, this movie shares a cinematic place alongside Bernal's Manila By Night and Brocka's Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag.

Raya Martin, filmmaker of global renown, writes: A hedonistic adventure in the rollercoater that is our society, Esoterika is the poignant journal of a master in Philippine cinema.
In his own words, film maker Elwood Perez says: In a voyage of self discovery, the protagonist---alternately ingenious and ingenuous--plunges into the territory of the exalted, the charmed and the bizarre, swimming through the uncharted waters of the unique Filipino experience, emerging from it all as an authentic Manileno, imbued with the thought that tolerance is sophistication.

Esoterika: Maynila has been picked by the ilipino Academy of Movie Arts and sciences to receive the 62th FAMAS Film Critics' Choice Award in ceremonies to be hel at Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World Manila.

The film has also been invited to open the 22nd Filipino Arts and Cinema International Film Festival (FACINE) in San Francisco, California in October. Its director Elwood Perez will also be presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the growth and development of the FIlipino motion picture industry.

Screeenings of Esoterka: Maynila at the Shang Cineplex are scheduled daily from September 23 to 29, 2:20pm, 4:40pm, 7:00pm and 9:20pm.