Mowelfund held its first screening of the ‘Dokyu Wave’ series, featuring Dennis Empalmado’s ‘Naglalakbay’ , Ruelo Zendo’s ‘Before It’s Too Late,’ and Chuck Escasa’s ‘Ghosts of Kalantiaw.’ ‘Naglalakbay’ chose to deal with the Filipino diaspora, mostly in the United States.
Empalmado’s “Naglalakbay” chose to deal with the Filipino diaspora, and the constant search for a better life abroad, mostly in the United States, still seen as the land of milk and honey after all these years.
Yes, they may be considered heroes, but how many of us have bothered to stop and think about the tribulations our OFWs have gone through and consistently endure? They may have found a better life, but at what price? This “Naglalakbay” tries to answer, in the process leaving the viewer with more questions to ponder.
He says no, there wasn’t any move, talks fell through, with one Mowelfund director offering a backstory that there were reports that the resto owner was asking too much for it, and anyway there was another restored copy of “Genghis Khan” done by ABS-CBN, though not in the dubbed original. In the town of Batan in Aklan, residents are up in arms with the debunking of the Kalantiaw code as well the pre-Hispanic datu behind it, as the town’s pride is the Kalantiaw Shrine since been designated as a non-shrine after extensive research and double checking by reliable historians and academicians.
A fine portrayal of the scuttlebutt monger Jose Marco was done by Joel Saracho, whose kalantiaw code sequences are given inspiring atypically hilarious animation by the cartoonist Roxlee, himself something of a part-time myth.