Last year I went to the Philippines to shoot preliminary footage for a documentary I hope to one day finish called Alab ng Puso. Translated from Tagalog as “flame of the heart,” it is a line from the Philippine national anthem. The documentary itself would tell the story of my mom and dad’s courtship while they were student activists around the end of the Marcos Era and around the time of the EDSA revolution.
Anyway, obviously real life caught up with me and I put the documentary in the back burner for a while, until recently, when my dad’s 50th birthday approached. I took some interview footage back then in anticipation of this event so the least I could do on behalf of the documentary was to hone my editing knife and put together a mini-doc about my dad’s first twenty-five years, which is coincidentally my age now, and as such his age when I was born.
I plan on fixing some wrinkles on this at some point, but for now here’s what I came up with:
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