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| Directed by | Jay Abello |
| Produced by | Vicente Garcia Groyon Fiona Borres Marya Ignacio Tara Illenberger |
| Written by | Vicente Garcia Groyon[1] |
| Starring | Christian Vasquez Angel Jacob Peque Gallaga Dwight Gaston Monsour del Rosario |
| Music by | Vince de Jesus |
| Cinematography | Anne Monzon |
| Editing by | Fiona Borres |
| Distributed by | Videoflick Productions |
| Release date(s) | 2008 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Philippines |
| Language | Hiligaynon / English |
| Budget | less than Php 1 million[2] |
Namets! is a 2008 Filipino independent film directed by Jay Abello. The film was a finalist in the full-length feature category of the 2008 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival.[3] The film's title is a play on the Hiligaynon word namit, which means "yummy" or "delicious".
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Jacko Teves (Christian Vasquez) owns Puccini's, an Italian restaurant in Bacolod City. When a monstrous cock fighting debt sets him at odds with Boss Dolpo (Peque Gallaga), he offers his restaurant up as payment. Boss Dolpo brings in Cassie Labayen (Angel Jacob) as a consultant to renovate the restaurant. Much to Jacko's dismay, Cassie decides to offer Negrense cuisine instead of Italian. The pair then set off across the province re-discovering the unique aspects of Negrense food.
The film was shot on location entirely in the province of Negros Occidental. Locales included Isabela, Sagay City, Silay City and Bacolod City. Seventy percent of the cast and crew were locally sourced talent and the dialogue is in Hiligaynon with English subtitles.[4]