Act One presents 'Aliens Ata,' a short film shot entirely with a stationary drone, presenting a unique look into a young boy's first brush with tragedyunfolds from the top view. Employing a stationary drone hovering above its characters, the film captures a young boy’s first encounter with tragedy after his father’s passing. To process this foreign emotion, the young boy settles for a less tragic explanation: that his father was probably taken by aliens.
premiered at the 2017 Sinag Maynila Independent Film Festival where it won the Best Short Film Award. The film also won the NETPAC Award for Short Film and Balanghai Trophy for Best Short Film at the 2017 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. In 2018, the film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at FAMAS and received a Best Short Film nomination at the Gawad Urian Awards.