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LAND FROM GOD

LUGTA KE TAMAMA

By Kevin PIAMONTE

ERK PRODUCTION - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018

LAND FROM GOD (Lugta Ke Tamama) tackles the struggles of the Ati tribe in its quest to preserve its culture in world-renowned Boracay, an island that underwent rapid modernization, commercialization, and environmental exploitation.

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Busan - BIFF/APM 2018
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    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • PHILIPPINES
    • Languages
    • FILIPINO
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 62 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kevin PIAMONTE
    • Producer(s)
    • Robert RODRIGUEZ (ERK Production)
    • Synopsis
    • "Land of God" is how the Indigenous People (IP) of the world-famous island in the Philippines--Boracay--call their home. It is where they used to freely roam.

      The project is a call-to-attention for the general public who would usually think of Boracay as one of the most beautiful coastal domains in the world without realizing that there is an untold history of IPs residing in the island. They are in fact the original settlers of Boracay and currently, due to massive developments in the island, they have been marginalized and worst, discriminated in the land they call their home. In the core of the documentary is the education of the IPs in Boracay.

      When we think that education is empowerment, there is a struggle for the IPs to achieve this goal that further complicates their situation. Struggling for home and education compounded with losing their culture due marginalization, this practically creates a visually disturbing image that could erase the IPs in Boracay by the leisure and pleasures of might be whimsical vacations and coercive commercialization. This is the impact that the film hopes to achieve with this video documentary. The filmmakers want to disseminate information to the general public and engage them.

      With this impact, it is the filmmakers' hope to push the project with an advocacy to protect the IPs in Boracay.
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