Black Rainbow

Itan, a 12-year-old Aeta boy, has to leave school to help his father, a farmer, and save money for the delivery of his pregnant mother. The young boy’s hopes are raised again when he hears about the existence of scholarship that he could receive on two conditions : first, he has to learn how to use a computer and then he has to convince his father to allow him to go back to school. Only then will he be able to achieve his long-time goal, that is to know how to read through all the documents the Aeta community had been receiving, and particularly one that forces them to give up ancestral lands up in the mountain to give way for mining.
“The film is a personal tale. It recounts my younger years when I chanced upon an old keyboard and played with its keys until I memorized their positions. I used this random knowledge when I aced a scholarship exam that required the use of a computer, much to the surprise of people who knew I was from a remote farming village.” Zig Dulay