Notes on Beauty Accdg. to the Children of Sitio Green Forest, Antipolo City, Rizal

Notes on Beauty Accdg. to the Children of Sitio Green Forest, Antipolo City, Rizal

19 min · Documentary

Mga Tala sa Kagandahan (Notes on Beauty) follows a filmmaking and theatre workshop for genderqueer kids (in swardspeak, baby bakla) in a Sitio in the City Antipolo, Rizal - a known pilgrimage site east of Manila. Its assertion: the right to our own representation, in front of and behind the camera. The footage, majority of which are shot by the kids, are a mixture of moments of learning and play times, that hopes to show the kids' view of the world in their first takes.

Directed by Kukay Bautista Zinampan

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