Migrante

Name: Migrante
Director: Lito Tiongson
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1987-06-14

Before they are sending goods, now they are sending people

1987 · 70 min · Documentary

Filmed on the ground in 1987, an urgent piece of third-cinema agitprop that captures the exact moment the Philippines began exporting its own people as its primary economic lifeblood.

Directed by Lito Tiongson

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