TorontoFilmFestival hidden gem: 'Kingmaker' lifts lid on political corruption in the Philippines
Writer-director Lauren Greenfield discovered that Imelda Marcos still has significant power in the Philippines.
Emmy Award nominee Greenfield readily admits that during the four years that it took to piece togethershe at times didn’t really know what — or whom — to believe. The result is a riveting exposé of the tangled web that the now 90-year-old Marcos have weaved in and around their nation beginning in the 1960s.
What Greenfield found she was witnessing was "a clear repetition of history" as Marcos and her family are slowly revealed to still be wielding considerable power and influence decades after what was, on the surface at least, a very public fall from grace. "I thought she was going to be very different as a character," Greenfield adds. "I kind of imagined that she was more of an empress dowager.
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