
Things start getting astoundingly weird er very quickly. Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers), that supervises her. Set in 1983, the film follows a girl named Elena (Eva Allan), a telepath studied and locked inside a New Age research compound, and the unstable therapist, Dr. It is the debut film by Canadian writer and director Panos Cosmatos ( Mandy (2018)). We at Arboria have found a path to achieve them.īeyond the Black Rainbow is a 2010 Science Fiction Psychological Thriller film, with a side of Surreal Horror. These seem to be things that, strangely, elude us all - but it doesn't have to be that way.

It has long been my dream to find the perfect way for people to achieve, simply, happiness. Mercurio Arboria, and I am the founder of the Arboria Institute. I believe it is our duty as storytellers to depict them in the right and appropriate manner -a small contribution to the wider efforts of ending the cycle of telling a single story and othering.Hello. More importantly, I learned the value of responsible IP representation in media, for these stories we portray are more than the sum of a culture and way of life.
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I have grown fond of their gentle lives and learned how to carefully present these stories in film. Over the course of my filmmaking career, I have learned so much about the lives of IPs that could last me a lifetime. Another inspiration to this story is my good friend Norman King, an Aeta from Porac, Pampanga, who earned a BA Behavioral Sciences at UP Manila. I sketched this inspirational story through a young Aeta boy. I used this random knowledge when I aced a scholarship exam that required the use of a computer, much to the surprise of people who knew I was from a remote farming village. It recounts my younger years when I chanced upon an old keyboard and played with its keys until I memorized their positions. This story of people’s hope rests upon complicated issues brought about by rampant mining that has been affecting Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the country. Lopezīlack Rainbow is a tale about the Aetas who dream and trust that the first step to a better life is through education. Tellano CO-PRODUCER Uncle Scott Global Production

SOUND DESIGNERS Nicole Amores, John Michael Perez, Mikko QuizonĮXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Arsenio “Nick” J. Ron King, Shella Mae Romualdo, Norman King, Jonalyn Ablong, Liya SarmientoĭIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Joseph Cosico Only then could he understand why they were being forced to give up ancestral lands up in the mountain to give way for mining. Only then would he be able to realize his long-time goal to read through all the documents the Aeta community had been receiving.

The young boy finds a flicker of hope when he learns about a scholarship opportunity that he could possibly receive on two crucial conditions: one, he has to learn how to operate a computer and two, he has to convince his father to allow him to return to school. Itan, a 12-year-old Aeta, is told to quit school and help his father in planting mountain crops so they can save up for the delivery of his pregnant mother. An Aeta boy chases his dream of going to school to learn how to read the legal documents given to their community and understand why they are being forced to give up their ancestral lands.
