The film also depicted the harrowing experiences of Filipinos in the countryside who became targets of human rights violations. Read: Arrested activist is a torture survivor under Marcos Sr. Last month, Adora Faye was arrested again, this time accused of multiple murder. The second film Beyond the Walls of Prison, on the other hand, featured a young Ron de Vera in several cameos about his mother and then political detainee Adora Faye whose story of rape and sexual abuse while in the hands of the military served as one of the cases filed during the class suit against Marcos in Hawaii. This led to massive cases of human rights violations like harassment, intimidation, arrests and killings.ĭuring the Martial Law period, human rights groups said that there were 70,000 detainees, 34,000 torture victims, 3,420 salvaging cases and 398 disappearances. In Arrogance of Power, the film featured the role of the US government in supporting the Marcos administration’s anti-insurgency program which intensified the attacks against indigenous peoples in the guise of aid during the 1970s. The activity organizers said that the two films show human rights violations in the countryside, violent dispersal of protest actions, and rampant anti-poor policies that they also witnessed. “(These films) are a big chunk of our collective memory as a people of what happened during the Marcos era and these we have to preserve.” It was held at the Cine Adarna, University of the Philippines Film Institute in Diliman, Quezon City.Īfrica said that these films can be used to educate the people to combat disinformation campaigns on the Marcos Sr. The screening featured AsiaVisions AV Collection films titled “Arrogance of Power” (1983) and “Beyond the Walls of Prison” (1987) which depict the brutality Filipinos suffered under Martial Law. “This is very important, especially with the sentiment that goes, ‘if it is not on video, it did not happen.’ Our enemies are at the forefront of historical distortion, and the Marcoses themselves have their own chest of footage,” Ibon Foundation executive director Sonny Africa said. MANILA – As a pushback against the massive disinformation campaign, independent thinktank Ibon Foundation and the Concerned Artist of the Philippines (CAP) held a film screening of two movies on September 10 that tackle the horrors of the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
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