Two more funding weeks! Old PH Documentaries

Help us bring home digital copies and get screening rights for some of the oldest documentaries made about the Philippines!

These 35 mm films are currently stored at the British Film Institute National Archive.  Access to these films is very difficult. To just be able to view them,  one needs to be in London and pay a per/minute viewing fee. To get screening rights - you also need to pay a digitization fee and then screening fees on top of these.

By raising this amount of money (already half of the usual amount as BFI coordinators know how significant these films are to Philippine Documentary history) -- we will be able to fund the digitization of the films. We will also get the rights to screen them in the Philippines for the Daang Dokyu Festival in March 2020.  The money raised will also allow us to get digital copies which we can deposit in a Film Archive in the Philippines as well as at  SOAS  University of London - where researchers will be able to
view the films using a free guest pass.


The films that we are targetting:

FABRICATION DES CHAPEAUX DE MANILLE (1911)
INDUSTRIE DE L’ABACA A L’ILE DE CEBU (1911)
GLIMPSES OF THE CULION LEPER COLONY AND OF CULION LIFE (1929)
MANILA STREET SCENE (1926)

What we get:

Digitisation of 4 x 35mm Films to HD Prores Format
Supply of digital copy with BFI watermark for library research ( in the Philippines and at SOAS)
Screening rights to show the films in the Daang Dokyu Festival



We hope you help us achieve this!


- Philippine Studies at SOAS, University of London, and the organizers of Daang Dokyu Festival. The trailer for the Philippine Documentary festival
can be found here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=3n6EqywU72w