Foster Child is an award-winning indie film from Seiko Films, which stars Cherry Pie Picache as a temporary foster parent to an abandoned child. The movie is directed by Brillante Mendoza.
Foster Child is Brillante Mendoza's fourth feature film, following Masahista (2005), Kaleldo (2006), and Manoro (2006). Mendoza is the fourth Filipino director whose work was screened in the Directors' Fortnight of Cannes film fest. The past filmmakers were Lino Brocka, Mike de Leon and Mario O'Hara.
Thelma (Cherry Pie Picache), together with her husband Dado (Dan Alvaro) and teenage sons Gerald (Alwyn Uytingco) and Yuri (Jiro Manio), are an urban poor family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption. The inevitable separation is heart-rending for the foster family.
