A film by Lav Diaz
Prologue to The Great Desaparecido is the short film to the full length feature film The Great Desaparecido, which questions Truth and History around Philippine Revolution and Independence.
The Great Desaparecido revolves around the desperate and harrowing thirty-day search for the body of Andres Bonifacio by his widow, Gregoria De Jesus. Andres Bonifacio is the Father of Philippine Revolution. The film is also about the controversial death of Andres Bonifacio. Rival revolutionaries executed Bonifacio and his body has never been found- thus the title, The Great Desaparecido. ‘Desaparecido’ means missing.
Cast
Hazel Orencio, Noel Sto. Domingo, Archie Alemania, Czarina Alcantara
Producers: Bianca Balbuena, Bich-Quan Tran
Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor: Lav Diaz
Assistant Cameraman: Bradley Liew
Production Manager: Liryc Dela Cruz
Production Designer: Syrel Lopez
Sound: Mark Locsin
Sound & Cinematographer Assistant: Che Villanueva
Wardrobe: Kim Perez
Production Assistant: Kyla Domingo
Production coordinator: Suzie Alcantara
About the Director
Lav Diaz is a filmmaker from the Philippines. He is especially notable for the length of his films, which are not governed by time but by space and nature. His work mostly deals with the social and political struggles of his motherland. Since 1998 he has directed more than twenty films, and
won numerous international awards including the Locarno Golden Leopard (From What Is Before, 2014), the Berlinale Alfred Bauer Silver Bear (A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery, 2016) and the Venice Golden Lion (The Woman Who Left, 2016).
