Batas Militar (1997 film)

Batas Militar
GenreDocumentary
Written byLito Tiongson
Directed by
  • Jeannette Ifurung (Post-production)
  • Jon Red (Film and field production)
Narrated byJoonee Gamboa
ComposerJaime Fabregas
Country of originPhilippines
Original languageFilipino
Production
Executive producerKara Magsanoc-Alikpala
Producers
Running time110 minutes
Production companyFoundation for Worldwide People Power
Original release
NetworkABS-CBN
Release
  • September 21, 1997 (1997-09-21)

Batas Militar (transl. Martial Law, marketed as Batas Militar: A Documentary on Martial Law in the Philippines) is a 1997 Filipino television documentary film about martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, and the ouster movement against him, the People Power Revolution. The film was directed by Jon Red and Jeannette Ifurung, with the former focusing on dramatizations.

The documentary was broadcast on September 21, 1997. The documentary was subsequently released on VHS.

Synopsis

It features the human rights violations during martial law in the Philippines, the economy, and the biographies of Ferdinand Marcos, his wife Imelda Marcos, and his prominent critic ,Benigno Aquino Jr.

Interviewees

The following is a list of interviewees in the documentary, conducted from March until May 1997:

Production

Eugenia Apostol, a journalist and publisher, brought a film crew together to create a documentary under her newly established Foundation for Worldwide People Power (renamed as the Eggie Apostol Foundation in 2012) about the injustices committed during the two-decade presidency of Ferdinand Marcos. Jon Red and Jeannette Ifurung became the film's pair of directors, with the former focusing on dramatizations and shoots on location, while the latter focused on post-production. The resulting work became the most expensive documentary film produced in the Philippines.

Release

Batas Militar aired on Philippine television network ABS-CBN on September 21, 1997, and was repeated on February 25, 2016, airing on PTV in 1998 and 2012, ABS-CBN News Channel in 2012 and 2016, and Knowledge Channel from 2011 until 2012.[citation needed] Afterwards, it was subsequently released on VHS. As of 2016, the documentary has not yet been released on the DVD format. However, filmmaker Mike de Leon has since posted the entire film on Vimeo with English subtitles through his Citizen Jake production account on February 1, 2019.

See also


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