Directing

Lito Tiongson

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Directing

Credits

8 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Batas Militar poster
10.0

"Batas Militar" is a definitive documentary about martial law under the dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.

Batas Militar

1997

Mendiola Massacre poster
NR

Mendiola Massacre is a newsreel of the massacre in Mendiola Bridge on January 22, 1987. The protest action for genuine agrarian reform by peasant organizations led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) resulted in the deaths of thirteen farmers and injuries of hundreds of civilians.

Mendiola Massacre

1987

Migrante poster
NR

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.

Migrante

1987

No artwork available
NR

A poetic quartet on contemporary Philippine realities.

Fragments

1991

No artwork available
NR

Oppression has unlocked the spirit of courageous resistance – peaceful and armed – in the island of Mindanao. Many indigent communities are no longer waiting on the sidelines for change. Instead, they are starting to demand the rights denied to them for so long.

No Time for Crying

1986

No artwork available
NR

Examines the abuses of the Marcos regime and the events leading up to the 1986 Philippine revolution.

The Arrogance of Power

1985

Naked Forest poster
NR

Greed gradually destroys an indigenous community's traditions and their resources.

Naked Forest

1982

Beyond the Walls of Prison poster
NR

A film essay on life within and beyond the prison walls of the Marcos dictatorship. Features interviews with former political detainees who all expressed their desire to be reintegrated to the mainstream of society, while keeping alive their commitment to social transformation.

Beyond the Walls of Prison

1987