by Karen Chu

The 27-year-old filmmaker explains the pitch behind his seventh feature ‘The Grandstand,’ which is inspired by the real-life 2010 Manila hostage tragedy.

Mikhail Red made his directorial debut at age 21 with Rekorder (2013), a drama about a Filipino man making his living secretly recording movies in cinemas for an underground piracy ring. Now 27, Red is just the sort of in-demand, rising star director whose business interests could be hard hit by that kind of racket…

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