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| Philippines, 1999, 84min, Digi-Beta, color, Documentary |
 Ditsi Carolino/Sadhana Buxani |
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| 71 | Artreon 4 | 2007-04-07 | 11:00 | |  |  |
| 81 | Artreon 4 | 2007-04-09 | 17:00 |  | | |
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Made in the Philippines: to Hukuoka with Love
A three-part documentary about Filipina women and work. Elsa in rural Luzon, works long hours in a garments sweatshop, and spends the night at the picketline. In Tokyo, artist Veng seeks various work while pursuing her interests in photography and filmmaking. In Fukuoka, three Filipinas married to Japanese men reveal their stories as entertainers. |
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The film begins with the story of Elsa, a female worker at a clothes manufacturing factory in the Philippines. In order to fight the long 16-hour a days and uncompensated work on Sundays, which make it virtually impossible for them to have a normal family life, Elsa and her colleagues set up a union. One year after the illegal closing of their factory, however, their efforts are going nowhere and they are becoming exhausted due to the interference of the official worker¡¯s association. The film also portrays the lives of Filipino women who move to Japan to escape the unjust and irrational economic system within the Philippines. Filipino women, who work in Japan as singers and hostesses, try to survive but also challenge the stigma attached to Filipino women, embodied in the slur "JapaYuki." In both the Philippines and Japan, there is a wide-spread assumption that all Filipino women who work in Japan as entertainers are prostitutes. Their struggles to break this stereotype include demonstrating an independent self to their patriarchal Japanese husbands, and advertising the merits of Filipino culture to Japanese society at large. Though these small but significant efforts that they embody, they contribute to creating culturally-diverse societies in both the Philippines and Japan. (Billy Choi) |
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Ditsi Carolino |
She began her career doing photography and slideshows for grassroots communities for five years. Since 1991, she has directed documentaries, many of them on the lives and struggles of the poor. Other Films include Trails to an Answer (1992), Keeping the Coop Fire Burning (1995), No Time for Play (1996) and Riles (2003).
Sadhana Buxani |
Sadhana Buxani is a visual artist and documentary photographer. She also worked as a community organizer in war-torn Mindanao and the slums of Manila before she began to make documentaries. Films include: Children Only Once (co-dir, 96, YIDFF'97 New Asian Currents), Bunso: The Youngest (2005). She has co-directed with Ditsi Carolino. |
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Director/Cinematography/Sound Ditsi Carolino, Sadhana Buxani
Screenplay/Producer Ditsi Carolino
Editor Nonoy Dadivas, Ditsi Carolino
Music Ronnie Quesada |
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Ditsi Carolino
7 St. Francis Xavier, de la Costa Homes, Marikina City, The Philippines
Tel 63 919 557 9243
Email ditsicarolino@yahoo.com |
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Ditsi Carolino
7 St. Francis Xavier, de la Costa Homes, Marikina City, The Philippines
Tel 63 919 557 9243
Email ditsicarolino@yahoo.com |
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