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Film Screening: The Mortician of Manila
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ABOUT THE FILM: Orly Fernandez manages and lives at Eusebio's - a 24-hr funeral parlour in Manila. His relationships with clients and the journalists he meets daily colour the empathy and contempt he holds for drug war victims who, like him, are struggling to survive. With intimate access, this film gives us a deeper understanding of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency and war-on-drugs.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Leah Borromeo is a journalist, filmmaker and co-founder of Disobedient Films. Working at the crossroads of art and journalism, much of her work involves personal narrative, public and private space, social architecture, the environment and the language of storytelling.
An American Filipino marooned in Brexit Britain, the projects she works on at Disobedient are journalistic in purpose and creative in process. In addition to developing and directing documentary ideas for multiple platforms, she created and is developing 'Climate Symphony' - a data sonification project that uses climate change data to tell the story of our warming planet through sound. She often comes up with interventions that document, address and occupy real and virtual spaces, is available for birthdays and bar mitzfahs and is obsessed with baseball and trashy romantic comedies. She ignores the advice of her parents and will always talk to strangers.