BLOOD TASTES LIKE UBE
creative shorts | narrative short film
blood tastes like ube
Drama, Comedy
2024
Language: English, Tagalog
16mm / 3:12
An unlearned British-Filipino inadvertently learns about the importance of Ube (pronounced “oo-bay”), a purple Yam, in relation to Philippine culture with the help of a Filipino shop owner.
Starring James Bradwell and Ermar Alexander.
Featuring music from Grammy nominated artist, and fellow half-Filipino, Toro Y Moi.
Writer, Director: Patrick Taylor
Executive Producer: Jack Bradley, Eyeline
Producer: Voy Czarkowski
DOP: Adam Singodia
Editor: Chris Walker
Sound Design: Ines Adriana
Production Design: Hazel Singzon
Colourist: Thomas Kumeling
1st AC: Ollie Pearson
Gaffer: Kian Altmann
Sound Recordist: Zak Allum
Production Assistant: Alfie Jackson
Location: Jojo’s Pinoy Store, Tooting
Film, Processing: Kodak London
Film Scan: Digital Orchard
Music by Toro Y Moi
Courtesy of Dean Oceans
Published by Toro Y Moi LLC
Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
An EYELINE production
press
Nowness Asia (Online Premiere)
Nowness (Picks)
Dazed
Minute Shorts
screenings
Thursday's Child x Minute Shorts present: Points of View (New York, 2024)
festivals
London Short Film Festival
2025: Official Selection
Drama, Comedy
2024
Language: English, Tagalog
16mm / 3:12
An unlearned British-Filipino inadvertently learns about the importance of Ube (pronounced “oo-bay”), a purple Yam, in relation to Philippine culture with the help of a Filipino shop owner.
Starring James Bradwell and Ermar Alexander.
Featuring music from Grammy nominated artist, and fellow half-Filipino, Toro Y Moi.
Writer, Director: Patrick Taylor
Executive Producer: Jack Bradley, Eyeline
Producer: Voy Czarkowski
DOP: Adam Singodia
Editor: Chris Walker
Sound Design: Ines Adriana
Production Design: Hazel Singzon
Colourist: Thomas Kumeling
1st AC: Ollie Pearson
Gaffer: Kian Altmann
Sound Recordist: Zak Allum
Production Assistant: Alfie Jackson
Location: Jojo’s Pinoy Store, Tooting
Film, Processing: Kodak London
Film Scan: Digital Orchard
Music by Toro Y Moi
Courtesy of Dean Oceans
Published by Toro Y Moi LLC
Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
An EYELINE production
press
Nowness Asia (Online Premiere)
Nowness (Picks)
Dazed
Minute Shorts
screenings
Thursday's Child x Minute Shorts present: Points of View (New York, 2024)
festivals
London Short Film Festival
2025: Official Selection