"So grateful FDCP--through your ardent support--is making this film exhibition possible. (Thanks too to the Silent Film Festival organizers.)
As early as 2014, I have submitted my proposal to various film and government agencies to screen the film in the Philippines as I was aware the film did not have a theatrical exhibition over the past 100 years. It is a very important film not to take notice of it--the film being the first full-length documentary ever produced in the country. It is an important landmark in PH cinema. But more than that--as a documentary, not a fiction film--Dean C. Worcester's Native Life in the Philippines documented a part of our native history and the controversial historical context it stirred up that is valuable for our historical memory. Nobody took interest in this film before until your support came along.
This is why I want to express my sincere "thank You!" for supporting its screening and allowing a lecture to be made to frame the significance of this film in our Filipino context.
Together with Zamboanga, Darna and Dyesebel, I am extremely happy naiuuwi ko ang mga "lost and orphaned films" na ito. Imagine I found them in places as far away as Washington DC (actually originally found in Finland) for Zamboanga and Bangkok (originally found in Cambodia) for Darna and Dyesebel.
I can locate more films stashed in various sources abroad.We need to bring them home!"
13TH INTERNATIONAL SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
OPENING NIGHT
SM AURA, AUGUST 30, 8:30PM
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