Chai Fonacier

Actress

December 25, 1986 (39 years)

Cagayan de Oro, Filippine

Biography

Chai Fonacier is a Filipino actress and musician. She was born in Cagayan de Oro City, subsequently moving to Cebu City and eventually, in Metro Manila as a full-time actress. She has won several awards for her work, including Best Supporting Actress Awards for the short film Operation Prutas (2015) and feature films Miss Bulalacao (2015), and Patay na si Hesus (2016).

Filmography

10.0

Halik

Chari

Childhood lovers Jacky and Lino meet after being apart for several years. However, now married to different people, the two must choose whether to fight to be together again or be true to the promise made to their spouses.

6.1

Nocebo

Diana

A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

N/A

Beauty Empire

Kriselda

It follows rags-to-riches CEO Noreen Alfonso who is out to take revenge on the people who have wronged her. She stakes her claim as a new beauty industry player, tearing down the empire that her enemies have built. Alfonso goes head-to-head against a crass but famous on social media CEO Shari de Jesus, who is being mentored by a powerful industry veteran Velma Imperial. But as she tears her opponent down on social media and they destroy each other's personal lives, it becomes evident that an invisible player is responsible for the bloodshed happening amidst the ongoing beauty wars.

N/A

The Bagman

Convicted prisoner and former governor, Benjo Malaya, learns the tragic news about his missing family, he is left with no choice but to return to the vicious underworld that he turned his back on, and take on a new mission, this time, as a fixer for the sitting president of the Philippines to stop an impending and civil war.

3.0

Elevator

Panying

Trapped inside the elevator of a hotel casino complex, a lowly elevator boy falls in love with his investor's mistress that forces him to choose between his love for her, or his dreams for a better future.

N/A

Manilennials

Yeye

Five millennials come to terms with their careers and identities while encountering the hilarity, absurdity, and humanity of living in Metro Manila during the 2016 global paradigm shift.

N/A

Cinebuano

Six individuals from different generations recall the golden age of Cebuano cinema, modern Cebuano cinema, their experiences, and discuss their aspirations about the future of Cebu’s film scene.

N/A

Where is the Lie?

Trixie Sison

When a hopeless romantic transwoman matches with a seemingly perfect guy on a dating app, her chance at love takes a dark turn when he ghosts her, unraveling an intricate web of deceit, lies, and catfishing orchestrated by a sociopathic mastermind.

N/A

A Thousand Forests

Crystal Flores

Five teenagers join the prestigious Philippine Forest Camp for a chance to travel the world. As they navigate this journey, they unearth far more than exotic landscapes.

N/A

Franklin

Four individuals in different parts of the world have one thing in common - a 100 US Dollar Bill

3.0

The Revolution Knows No Gender

With his family life in shambles amidst the government's war on drugs, a young man transitions from being an ordinary filmmaker to being a full-fledged member of the revolutionary movement, proving that conviction knows no gender.

3.0

So Connected

Heidi

It is about a guy who thinks he already knows someone just because he's been watching her life through photos and videos.

6.7

Respect

Betchai

Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Can they turn each other’s lives around before they’re swallowed by their circumstance?

N/A

Pinay Beauty

Migs needs to settle a huge debt to a loan shark. When Migs explains that he doesn't have the money yet, the loan shark proposes that he could settle the bill if Migs could find Lovi Poe and introduce him to the actress. How does a regular guy who knows no one in show business meet a celebrity?

4.8

Jesus Is Dead

Jude

When Iyay, a single mother, learns that her estranged husband has died, she drags the entire family on a road trip from Cebu to Dumaguete to attend the funeral.

5.5

The Human Surge

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

4.2

Born Beautiful

Yumi

After her best friend dies, Barbs starts a new life as a straight man named Bobby, which leads her to Trisha's ex-boyfriend Michaelangelo, to her own ex-boyfriend Greg and to a woman claiming she is pregnant with Barbs' child.

6.5

Pauwi Na

Pina

A tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.

8.0

The Imminent Immanent

Andrea

As a typhoon bears down on a sleepy rural town in the Philippines, strange events and even stranger behaviour foreshadow the watery catastrophe to come.

N/A

Song of the Fireflies

Teacher Baby

The origin story of the Loboc Children’s Choir and how through their almost magical singing talent and the sheer determination of their teacher/founder from the 1980s to this day, continues to wow the world and bring pride and honor to the Philippines.