Katutubo [videorecording] memory of dances - PCIJ (Quezon City Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, 2001)
Director's Notes: Many documentaries on indigenous peoples perpetuate the myth of a vanishing tribe. They depict tribes losing their land to the relentless invaders of progress, while their traditions drown in the currents of mainstream culture and globalization. Filmakers are content with archiving rituals and dances that will soon disappear.
This documentary looks at tribal communities not as victims but as victors in a robust struggle to keep their land and their way of life. This film gives voice to the hopes of indigenous peopls thay they will relive the memory of their dances not on video screen or in a museum but with the soles of their feet firmly touching the sacred ground that has benn the homeland of their ancestors since time inmemorial by Antonio Jose Perez
Producer: Philippine Center fir Investigative Journalism - Director: Antonio Jose Perez - Concept: Sheila Coronel - Scriptwriter/Supervising Producer: Luz Rimban
Keywords: Rituals and Dances; Minorities -- Philippines; Indigenous People -- Philippines; Manobo