Future perfect
A documentary that aims to capture a generation’s moment in time gets nine different posters.
MANILA, Philippines - Perhaps it was inevitable.
If you’re doing a project that aims to capture a moment in a generation’s development, that generation might just give back to you. And so for this documentary, it comes not with one but with nine posters, by a variety of different artists from different perspectives and different stages of their careers.
Letters to the Future is a 30-minute documentary by director Bia Catbagan that asks 20-somethings a simple question: What would you say to your future self? The film seeks to capture a generation at its bravest and most vulnerable. “I want it to show what’s really on the minds of people, and not the façades on social media that we see,” Catbagan says.
The film explores a generation’s stories, aspirations and hopes for the future through the eyes of 44 young people of different social backgrounds. Letters to the Future serves a time capsule, a candid record of what it’s like to be young in Manila in 2014.
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Letters to the Future screens on all Saturdays of August, 8 p.m. at U-View, Fully Booked Bonifacio High Street. Tickets may be reserved through Apa (0998-9772027).
