A Thousand Cuts is a feature documentary from award-winning filmmaker Ramona Diaz and FRONTLINE examining Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s escalating attacks on the media, told through the story of his prime target: journalist Maria Ressa. Along with her colleagues, Ressa, a TIME Magazine 2018 Person of the Year and the CEO and co-founder of the independent Philippine news site Rappler, has been at the forefront of chronicling Duterte’s brutal war on drugs, enduring harassment, arrests and a cyber libel conviction that could send her to prison.
2022 /
WINNER
A THOUSAND CUTS
Director & Producer: Ramona S. Diaz,
Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino; Executive Producers: Laurene Powell Jobs, Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan Silberberg, Nicole Stott, Raney Aronson-Rath, David J. Cornfield, Linda A. Cornfield; Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn
12-year-old Tatheer embarks on a week-long Police boot camp for girls from a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Far from home, deep in the woods, she navigates grueling rituals, elusive social dynamics, and personal setbacks to find her place in this tender and revealing coming-of-age story.
2020 |
100 min
Philippines
Languages: English | Filipino
AWARD:
Best Editing
Type:
Doc Feature
Themes:
Women, Human Rights, Uprising
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