A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Phillipine Revolution (1988) Screening and Director/Collaborators Discussion

A RUSTLING OF LEAVES:  Inside the Philippine Revolution

feature documentary, 112 mins, 1992

Doors open at 6:00PM, screening begins at 7:30PM

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A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution chronicles the three points of a political triangle:  the legal left, the illegal (armed) revolution, and the enemy which threatens them both:  the armed reactionary right.  

Kumander Dante, founder of the revolutionary New People’s Army, runs for the Senate. Father Frank Navaro is a rebel priest and guerrilla fighter. Radio deejay Jun Pala is the voice of the Anti-Communist Crusade and right wing death squads.

Together they take you behind  the headlines and frontlines of a guerrilla war.

Nettie Wild’s first feature documentary is edited with the tension of a drama and insists on probing uncomfortable contradictions. Rustling asks, should the people's movement continue the guerrilla war; or do they dare enter legal politics and reveal the hidden faces of a revolution?

Joining director Nettie Wild for the post screening discussion will be fellow collaborators producer Betsy Carson and sound recordist Gary Marcuse.

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“Surviving the crossfire between romance and idealism, Wild has emerged with an extraordinary documentary.” 

Brian D. Johnson, Macleans Magazine

“Strikingly dramatic, cinematically lush, a spontaneous jewel that defines the best in the art of the documentary.” 

Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Examiner

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Awards

People's Choice Award, Berlin Film Festival (Forum of New Cinema)

Prix du Public, National Film Board's Salute to the Documentary

Best Cinematographer (Kirk Tougas), Society of Canadian Cinematographers

Official Selection, Independent Documentary Filmmakers’ Association (IDFA) Festival, Amsterdam

Grand Prize, Houston Film Festival

Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival.