Halawod (2018) dir. Anna Katrina V. Tejero

Amidst modernization and development, the indigenous people of the Tumandok tribe of Panay region are struggling to preserve their culture and their rights to ancestral land. Belonging to the Tumandok tribe, couples Romeo and Berna Castor are being sued by the National Irrigation Administration for refusing to give their consent to the proposed Jalaur Mega dam in the town of Calinog, Iloilo. This documentary film explores the sentiments of the Tumandok people facing dispossession of land and the waning of cultural tradition that is brought about by pretext of development.