Bernabe Buscayno

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

Documenting the life and times of student leader Edgar Jopson. Famously derided by Marcos as the "son of a grocer" the young "Edjop" led the student movement that sparked the historic First Quarter Storm. The film won the top prize at the first Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video.

An examination of the tumultuous times of Filipino activists and revolutionaries from the end of World War II through Martial Law.

A chronicle of the three points of a political triangle — the legal left, the illegal (armed) revolution, and the enemy which threatens them both: the armed reactionary right. It is 1987. The dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has just been overthrown. Newly elected President Corazon Aquino struggles to wrench control of the country from her own military. A Rustling of Leaves poses the key question facing the revolutionaries and the Filipino Left: Should the People’s Movement continue the guerilla war, or do they dare enter legal politics and reveal the hidden face of the revolution?

This action drama depicts the political development of one of the most celebrated leaders of the New People's Army "Ka Dante" or Bernabe Buscayno, who availed of the Aquino goverment's political amnesty program.