Ariel Esteban Cayer, co-founder of Kani Releasing, talks about the long road to making this Brocka-Aunor classic available to the public in its high quality glory
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Digging into Lino Brocka’s filmography a little bit, the film had a certain mystique. It was selected at the Director’s Fortnight in 1981, produced by Aunor herself, featuring her in a very intriguing role and, above all, was very hard to access unless you knew where to locate old copies .
Delaying these projects is never a conscious decision, but conditions need to align. It’s also a complex historical situation, in that the negatives were archived abroad. That is both the reason why the film can look so pristine now and, paradoxically, maybe why it took so long to re-emerge.
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