28 minutes that'll radicalize your Netflix queue.
Filmed in a village of the indigenous Mandaya people, located in a mountainous area of southeastern Mindanao, the country's second largest island, the documentary portrays the struggle of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army, for the rights of indigenous Filipino peoples and the environment, which are constantly under threat from landowners, large logging companies and agribusiness.
Direction
Embedded filmmaking with actual guerrillas—dangerously intimate access.
Production
Shot under genuine conflict conditions, no safety net.
Director
Rod Prosser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The NPA remains active today, making this 1994 footage a time capsule of an unresolved conflict most Western viewers never knew existed.
Rod Prosser was an Australian filmmaker who specialized in embedded conflict documentaries—this was shot during one of the CPP's most internationally visible periods before post-9/11 counterterrorism frameworks reshaped global leftist movements.
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