Running is the most popular sport today. A lot of companies also jumped in to the running popularity, some even used running to promote an advocacy. Some run because it’s what’s “in”. There are also fun runs wherein people run wearing costumes, even equestrian boots. But for Thelma running, her way of fixing problems, or is she running away from it?
This will be Maja’s biggest break. It’s the role she has been waiting for. Maja is one of the actresses that doesn’t get much attention. She has teleseryes, movies, and endorsements but nothing that would really make standout. This movie brought the best in her an pretty sure that this will bag awards locally and maybe even international recognition. I will surely be watching this in support of local films to inspire the people behind it to produce more quality films.
Thelma is the first film under Time Horizon, in cooperation with Abracadabra and Underground Logic. Starring Maja Salvador, Techie Agbayani, John Arcilla, Jason Abalos, Eliza Pinedam Sue Prado, Rj Salvador, Manel Sevidal and champion runner Elma Muros as Thelma’s coach.
THELMA (Maja Salvador) loves running. She runs in the fields of her hometown of Ilocos Norte. It’s the one thing that sets her free from a life of feeling unwanted and invisible to her family. A mischievous, tomboyish teenage barrio girl, Thelma isn’t what people expected her to be — her farmer father, Aldo (John Arcilla) wanted a son; and her mother, Floring (Tetchie Agbayani) was in the middle of a possible athletic running career when she came along.
She lives in the shadow of her younger sister Hannah (Eliza Pineda) who is smarter and favored by her parents. Despite her hidden envy of her, Thelma loves Hannah and they are the best of friends. Disaster strikes when the sisters take a forbidden shortcut across a new highway, and Hannah is run over by a speeding car, almost killed, and practically crippled for life. Her only hope to walk again is an expensive operation they cannot afford. From then on, life is an even heavier burden for Thelma until she enters a road race and wins. This sets Thelma in motion, on a journey to use her gift of strength and speed, to run for her sister’s possible recovery, for her family’s hope to rise from desperate poverty, and to redeem herself from the past.
She is forced to grow up, study and work hard, learn, be disciplined and focus. Thelma runs and wins all the way to Manila, where she grows into a beautiful, young, female athlete, with new horizons and challenges. She finds friends and falls in love, tastes sweet victory and suffers bitter defeat. In the climax of her crucible, homesick, hungry and heartbroken, Thelma is torn between giving up and going home, or going the distance with everything she’s got. She must run for herself and for the love of the sport. She must finish her race and she has no choice but to finish strong.
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