Kumeta, 52, said he repeatedly asked himself, “what do I really want to shoot” and “what kind of film should I make,” when he recorded more than 200 hours of footage in the Manila slums.

Seal On Tour Drinking in Manila's Cemetery Slum ! Posted: December 11, 2024 | Last updated: December 12, 2024 I spent a day with the Cemetery People of the Philippines. 3000 people live within the ...

“We can collect enough water to wash our hands, clean our dishes, flush the toilet – and one of us gets to shower,” she said, outside her home in Addition Hills, one of Manila’s most dangerous and ...

Tondo is Manila's biggest slum, home to over half a million people, many of them children. All of us in the team had been to some of the poorest corners of the earth, but Tondo was something else.

“We can collect enough water to wash our hands, clean our dishes, flush the toilet – and one of us gets to shower,” she said, outside her home in Addition Hills, one of Manila’s most dangerous and ...

Consuming pagpag leads to stunted growth in children, and heightens the risk of acquiring hepatitis A, cholera and typhoid Despite the government’s incremental success at reducing poverty ...

The Japan Foundation, Manila has released the list of movies, including the 2023 hit epic kaiju film “Godzilla Minus One” and the Philippine-set “Dito,” for the 2025 edition of the Japanese Film ...

In the slums of Manila, Kiwi nurse Jessa Pontevedra goes from shack to shack, using a new tool to fight tuberculosis. Nicholas Jones and Mike Scott went with her. It’s often necessary to crouch ...