episode #6 with Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sheila Francisco

Our journey through International cinema takes us now to Philippines. At the end of April we attended the Far East Film Festival in Udine where we had the chance to interview Filipino director Martika Ramirez Escobar about her feature debut “Leonor Will Never Die” alongside the protagonist of the film Sheila Francisco, a singer and veteran of the theater. Ramirez Escobar has created an exciting and strange film about a retired filmmaker who gets bonked on the head by a television accidentally thrown from a window. Leonor sinks into a coma, and from there the film cheekily takes us inside a writer’s head, entering into her own unfinished script for one of her action movies.