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Winner of ge d'or Prize L' ge d'or Festival 2016




A personal meditation about the experience of the Filipino diaspora. It explores both the physical and emotional spaces of many immigrants who are living in a state of exile in the US. The filmmaker documents his grandparents and his own assimilation to American life and pop culture to reveal a larger colonized mentality in a personal and historical context.

Screenings/Exhibition History

2019: Flaherty Seminar
2019: Glasgow Film Festival
2018: Blum & Poe Acid Book Fair
2017: DIM Cinema, Vancouver
2017: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
2017: L' ge d'or Festival 2016: Winner of ge d'or Prize
2017: Crossroads SF Cinematheque
2017: Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
2017: Iowa City International Film Festival
2016: Out of Frame Festival (OOF!), Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
2016: Experimenta Festival of the Moving Image - Goethe Institut, Bangalore, India
2015: Salamindanaw International Film Festival - General Santos City, Philippines
2015: International Southeast Asian Film Festival - New People Theater, San Francisco
2015: Rising Indies! in Tokyo
2015: Arkipel International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta Indonesia
2015: Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2015: Singapore International Film Festival, National Museum of Singapore
2015: EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, Korean Film Archive, Seoul
2014: Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

Recess: Interview by Diego Ramirez

For festival inquiries email miko.revereza@gmail