Diaz captured the plight of Maria Ressa, a veteran journalist now facing multiple charges that human rights groups describe as politically-motivated, in the film A Thousand Cuts. More recently, documentary filmmaker Ramona S. The Philippines has an illustrious history of filmmakers using cinema to comment on politics. He was arrested upon his return to Manila. In 1984, Filipino director Lino Brocka smuggled his film Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (This Is My Country) to the Cannes Film Festival, after being banned in his homeland for overtly tackling the severe corruption of the Marcos dictatorship.
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