Rainier de la Cuesta, the director of With Nothing. Cai Cortez as Jocelyn, the mostly silent production manager of Bingbong who visualizes several scenarios of With Nothing presented by Rainier and Bingbong. Cherry Pie Picache and Mercedes Cabral appear in cameo appearances as themselves, who are the other options of Bingbong, Rainier and Jocelyn in casting the part of Mila. Antoinette Jadaone Bilang babae sa catering. Reception Box office The film broke box office records for the Cinemelaya Independent Film Festival. It is the first full-length film to have its audience tickets sell to its maximum capacity within ten days of showing at the festival. The film was a commercial as well as critical success. The film earned a total of P20 million on its first five days. The total gross of the film amounted to P38.4 million, making it the highest grossing independent film in the history of Philippine cinema until it was surpassed in 2015 by That Thing Called Tadhana. International Richard Kuipers of Variety describes The Woman in the Septic Tank as "a lively laffer." He also praises the performance of lead actors Cipriano and de Guzman, calling it "spot-on as the guys with one eye on the slums and the other on travel and trophies." Meanwhile, Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter says the film is "a lambast of the pretensions of independent cinema in his country and his fellow filmmakers' inflated egos." However, she is concerned about its "specialized topic and low-budget look" that may be off-putting for some audience, which may minimize its commercial prospect internationally. She also compares how the film replays specific sequences, each with narrative or stylistic revisions, to "a Groundhog Day of pilot filmmaking." The film is an official entry for the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, and the Far East Film Festival. The film was chosen by the Film Academy of the Philippines to represent the Philippines in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Awards and nominations |- |rowspan="5"|2011 |rowspan="5"| 7th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival* |Best Screenplay (Chris Martinez) | |- |Audience Choice Awards | |- |Best Performance of an Actress (Eugene Domingo) | |- |Best Director (Marlon N. Rivera) | |- |Best Picture | |- |rowspan="17"|2012 |rowspan="2"| 6th Asian Film Awards<ref>[http://www.pep.ph/news/32662/pep-exclusive-eugene-domingo-remains-optimistic-despite-ang-babae-sa-septic-tank39s-failure-to-make-the-oscar-cut-cries-over-her-asian-film-awards-nomination/1/2