SummaryNowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy.
Directed By:Ramona S. Diaz
Written By:Ramona S. Diaz
A Thousand Cuts
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Aug 8, 2020
90
Ressa’s seemingly boundless energy, good humor and intelligence make her basically a power plant for the manufacture of inspiration in embattled times.
Aug 8, 2020
89
Diaz stays out of the way of her own lens, instead giving a portrait in context of Ressa's valiant struggle for truth, and her determination to simply do the job even as she becomes part of the story.
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Aug 30, 2020
8
This documentary film could use tighter editing, but the content sends a head-shaking, bone-chilling message about the current state of politics and governance in the Philippines.
Dec 8, 2021
0
Liberal propaganda, Maria Ressa and rappler so biased and so woke, they all wear like clowns
Aug 7, 2020
88
Diaz displays a remarkable skill with editing hours of footage about a complex issue into a tight piece of non-fiction filmmaking that makes its point often merely by bearing witness to history being made in the Philippines.
Aug 8, 2020
80
The film is an essential character-driven document of a moment in the history of a country facing some challenges that are disturbingly familiar and others, thank goodness, that Americans will find very foreign.
Aug 8, 2020
75
The film uses endangered press freedom in the Philippines to illustrate the threat posed to liberal democracy by weaponized social media.
Aug 8, 2020
75
The movie is loaded with moments meant to generate shock and outrage, but it could use more shoe-leather procedural scenes, showing in detail how Ressa’s team goes about investigating the police’s abuses of their constitutional authority.
Aug 8, 2020
70
As the film focuses more tightly on [Ressa], it becomes a more gripping document. And it certainly is gripping, as the cloud of menace threatening her becomes firmer.
Aug 12, 2020
0
Gone are the days when news would tell you what happened and you had to make an opinion on it. Now the news tell you their opinion and you have to decide if it even happened at all.
Aug 12, 2020
0
Extremely subversive propaganda. It exists only to prop up the corporate propaganda news outlets that are eroding democracy through social engineering and manipulation, while claiming it's the other way around. But at this point I think everyone can see how almost all entertainment has been weaponized to try and manipulate people into believing certain things.
Production Company:
- CineDiaz
- Concordia Studio
- TBD Post
Release Date:Aug 7, 2020
Duration:1 h 50 m
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Awards
Gawad Urian Awards
• 4 Nominations
Millennium Docs Against Gravity
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
