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Asog 2023
i had the pleasure of watching the nyc premiere with director seán devlin & central actor jaya—both comedians, co-writers of asog. they introduced the screening with jokes. seán said he couldn't go very long without laughing. after surviving typhoon yolanda, he asked around for comedy shows in leyte. that's how he met jaya.
i used to think that documentaries needed to be sad or serious to be accepted as truth, but that is simply not the reality of a filipino. in fact:…
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Signed: Lino Brocka 1987
Blackwood: Don't you get tired of fighting?
Brocka: It gets tiring, but what do you do? You just stop? I think that's worse. The moment you accept the fact that there cannot be any change, you know, that the system will not change, I think that's the time that you die. I might as well not do anything at all.in the last 15 minutes of signed, brocka talks about the shift in his relationship to moviemaking. he once believed that…
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