Third World Happy

Distributed byCinema One Originals100 minutesCountryPhilippinesLanguageFilipino

Third World Happy is a 2010 Philippine drama film directed by EJ Salcedo and starring Sam Milby and Jodi Sta. Maria as former partners.^[1] The film debuted 11 November 2010 at the Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival,^[2] and had theatrical release across the Philippines on May 25, 2011.^[3][4][5]

Wesley (Sam Milby) was a Fil-Am and a naturalized citizen when he left Philippines 12 years earlier. In America, he aspired to become a painter, and revealed that his parents died before he left the country to finish his dreams, he became a Fulbright scholar to achieve it. Years later, he received a phone call that his loved one had died and he was required to visit the wake. There he met his ex-girlfriend (Jodi Sta. Maria), his friends, his aunt and his own older brother, who will be his guide to give him a shining light and give him the courage to look at the coffin and say his last goodbyes. It is revealed that his Kuya Danny was the dead one after all.

• Sam Milby as Wesley
• Jodi Sta. Maria as Aylnn
• Melissa Mendez as Aunt Beth
• Archie Alemania as Lyndon
• Richard Quan as Danny
• Archie Adamos as Tiyong Boy
• Raul Morit as Mang Teng
• Geraldine Tan as Aylnn's Mother
• Eugene Herrera as Dexter

• 2010, Won Festival Prize for 'Best Supporting Actress' for Jodi Sta. Maria at Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival
• 2010, Nominated for Festival Prize as 'Best Picture' for EJ Salcedo at Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival
• 2011, Nominated for Gawad Urian Award for 'Best Actor' for Sam Milby at Gawad Urian Awards

• Third World Happy at IMDb