The award-winning director on subverting who gets to be an action star and why cinema is place of mystery.
︎ “It tells a lot of how Filipinos see themselves as people who need to be saved by a hero, baka may ganoong pag-transcend ng idea. And siguro, ako rin, as a person,” Martika Ramirez Escobar says from a pixelated Zoom call. “Films have made a great impact on my life. Like most of the things I know or I think I know, I’ve learned from watching movies.”
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︎ “It tells a lot of how Filipinos see themselves as people who need to be saved by a hero, baka may ganoong pag-transcend ng idea. And siguro, ako rin, as a person,” Martika Ramirez Escobar says from a pixelated Zoom call. “Films have made a great impact on my life. Like most of the things I know or I think I know, I’ve learned from watching movies.”
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