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Documentary Production and Distribution News
| Documentary Film Update: "Left By The Ship" By StudentFilmmakers.com posted Apr 6, 2012, 15:58 |
JR, Charlene, and Robert are half American; they are among the close to 50,000 children of Filipina sex workers fathered by American servicemen who were stationed in military bases in the Philippines until 1992. Their poignant stories, recounted in Left by the Ship, illuminate the limbo in which this generation of Filipino Amerasians find themselves. Filmed over the course of two years, filmmakers Emma Rossi-Landi and Alberto Vendemmiati followed the lives of these three young people as they struggle with discrimination, troubled families, and identity-related issues, trying to overcome a past they are in no way responsible for. Left by the Ship will premiere on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Mary-Louise Parker, on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 10 PM (check local listings).
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