BULOSAN IN THE HEART OF AMERICA

SYNOPSIS

A short documentary that merges interviews, re-enactments, and animation, to examine the tumultuous chapter of Philippine migrant history beginning with the ‘Manong Generation’ – the first migrant labor in the dawn of the 20th century – and labor activism through the life and writings of Carlos Bulosan, the man who wrote the novel America is in the Heart.

Directed by Sari Dalena

STATUS

In Post-Production

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