1987
4.7 (3 votes)
1h 24m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Christian Blackwood Productions
Bavarian Television-Munich
Channel 4 Television
Bavarian Television-Munich
Channel 4 Television
Signed: Lino Brocka
Overview
Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream film industry of the Philippines. Primarily using interviews with the effusive director himself, Blackwood allows Brocka to describe, in his own terms, the common thematic threads tying together his work, from his own homosexuality to the political repression suffered by Filipinos at the hands of Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorial government.
