Director: Law Fajardo
Screenplay: John Bedia, Herlyn Alegre
Cinematographer: Boy Yniguez
Editing: Law Fajardo
Sound: Mike Idioma, Imman Verona, M. Alfie Bautista
Music: Jobin Ballesteros
Cast: Allen Dizon, Ces Quesada, B. Bernardo, JM de Guzman, JC Santos, Onyl Torres, Mailes Kanapi
Production: Krisma Maclang Fajardo
Solar Entertainment
Center Stage
Contact:
Butch Ibanez
butch.ibanez@solarenter
tainmentcorp.com
Year: 2015
DCP, Color, 132 min, OV Filipino and Japanese SUBENG
French electronic subtitles
Official selection Toronto and Tokyo International Film Festival 2015
From 1970 to 1990, many Filipino people have emigrated to Japan. These emigrants were fighting every day to remain in this country with such strict rules. In the middle of their individual struggle, Linda, Benjie, Manuel and Rodel are suddenly all caught in a far more complex hide and seek game, where the only way to remain alive is by becoming invisible.
“The life of a migrant worker is not simply a life full of heroic deeds, it is a battle for survival. It is a battle not for existence, but for non-existence. This story aims to present the characters as normal people – fighting, striving, struggling everyday to provide for their families, to survive deportation, to thrive against discrimination. The film wants to humanize the migrant workers, to present the personal portraits of the invisible not as superheroes, but as real people with real struggles, with real personal dilemmas.” Lawrence Fajardo
