Sometimes “locking in” looks like sitting in the sun and remembering that your life is also meant to be lived, not just optimized, monetized, and turned into proof that you’re worthy.
I hate when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human.
Palestinian cinema is represented at this year's QCinema International Film Festival! Big props to #QCinemaPH for standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Catch Bloom Where You are Planted if you can. It's a moving love letter to activists who plant the seeds of the struggle in lands perpetually imperiled by the forces of greed. This is cinema as resistance, cinema as articulation of hope, cinema as a gesture toward liberation.
“To ask a director like myself from the Philippines what the future of cinema is, I find, an absurd question. To ask what the future of cinema is in the Philippines, is like asking what the future of the Philippines is.” — Mike de Leon at Cannes in 1982
Rest in power.