By Purple Romero
Manufacturing misery as one of mainstream media’s mortal sins is purveyed creatively with organic elan in “The Slums,” winner of the Heart On Award at the Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival 2020. The mockumentary, directed by rising Filipino filmmaker Jan Andrei Cobey, goes for the jugular, as it eviscerates the media for its messianic complex and consequent propensity to depict the urban poor as people devoid of dignity.
“The Slums” centers on the Dela Cruz family, whose plight becomes the subject of a documentary film shot in the aftermath of a fire that razed part of a shantytown in Tondo, Manila. Cameras follow them as they move inside and outside their home, their interactions with different family members as well as their individual lives captured on film.
The movie introduces us to the dynamics of a family who is very much aware of the precarity...
Manufacturing misery as one of mainstream media’s mortal sins is purveyed creatively with organic elan in “The Slums,” winner of the Heart On Award at the Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival 2020. The mockumentary, directed by rising Filipino filmmaker Jan Andrei Cobey, goes for the jugular, as it eviscerates the media for its messianic complex and consequent propensity to depict the urban poor as people devoid of dignity.
“The Slums” centers on the Dela Cruz family, whose plight becomes the subject of a documentary film shot in the aftermath of a fire that razed part of a shantytown in Tondo, Manila. Cameras follow them as they move inside and outside their home, their interactions with different family members as well as their individual lives captured on film.
The movie introduces us to the dynamics of a family who is very much aware of the precarity...
- 12/15/2021
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Watch out for forests in the Philippines, for they hide a creature or two you wouldn’t want to meet. Based on the Tambal folklore, “Belief is the Light in Darkness” tells the story of one of the most feared local mythical creatures – a shapeshifting evil being that lures its victims deep into the woods for the purpose of possessing their bodies and melting into their hosts’ families.
“Belief is the Light in Darkness” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival
On his way back home through the forest, a teenager (Dylan Ray Talon) meets a group of ghosts of disappeared villagers. Although they don’t speak, it seems like they want to deliver a message to the boy. When he informs his father (Soliman Cruz) about the strange encounter in the woods, the man is quick on his feet to go and check whether the story is true or not.
“Belief is the Light in Darkness” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival
On his way back home through the forest, a teenager (Dylan Ray Talon) meets a group of ghosts of disappeared villagers. Although they don’t speak, it seems like they want to deliver a message to the boy. When he informs his father (Soliman Cruz) about the strange encounter in the woods, the man is quick on his feet to go and check whether the story is true or not.
- 12/19/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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