ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: Festival will showcase 69 shorts, features and documentaries from around the globe and across the U.S.
The fantastical story involves a woman who gets hit on the head by a TV, goes into a coma and then imagines she has written herself into a Philippine action film from the 1970s.The late Marilou Diaz-Abaya's"Karnal" will be the retrospective film at the San Diego Filipino Film Festival.
He also wants to remind audiences that"action films in the '70s in the Philippines were big. As young kids growing up, everyone idolized action stars." The festival not only highlights new films, but also pays homage to the past. This year there’s a retrospective screening of the late Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s""I want the audience to be curious about her work," Bautista said."Her husband was the cinematographer, and her husband said, 'Why don't you direct the film?' And nervous and challenged, she did, and she did very well.
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