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People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose

24 September 2017

Run Time

90 mins

The very best in artists’ moving image and new filmmaking

Berwick New Cinema includes feature films, competition screenings and seminars.

The second edition of the award features resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation. Chosen by an international jury, the Berwick New Cinema Competition features some of the most exciting and ambitious filmmakers working today.

TRAILER

Year

2017

Duration

1 mins

People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose

Recovering decaying 35mm footage, from under the bed of 1980s starlet Liz Alindogan, John Torres discovered it was from an unfinished film by Celso Advento Castillo, one of the Philippines’ greatest geniuses of 1970s and 80s genre cinema. Shot on the same island and at the same time as Oliver Stone’s Platoon was being made, It coincided with the People Power Revolution as Marcos was being thrown out of the country. A film of epic mystery, and erudite self-consciousness emerges from a waking dream.

Director

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Dialogue Language

Tagalog

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

John Torres

Duration

89 mins

Producer

John Torres Ronald Arguelles

Production company

Los Otros Films ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc.

Sales

ABS-CBN Creative Programs Inc.