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Available for free online streaming on these aforementioned dates include the following:
* Marcos: A Malignant Spirit - Hosted by the late Angelo Castro Jr. and rarely seen by those who have been studying Marcos archives, the 1986 film is about the plunder of a nation and, through rare footage and recorded conversarions, looks into the inhuman manner in which Marcos and his henchmen systematically drained the nation's economy in their greedy and unrelenting quest for fortune.
* Imelda (Ramona Diaz) - A 2003 documentary film on the life of Imelda Marcos highlights her childhood, marriage to Ferdinand Marcos, her role in the dictatorship, her family's exile in Hawaii, and her eventual return to the Philippines. The film won the Excellence in Documentary Cinematography Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
* Alunsina (Kiri Dalena) - documents the struggle of children and families in an urban settlement severely affected by the government's war on drugs which led to thousands of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and has left hundreds of children without parents. According to Dalena, the film aims to focus on the plight of these children and remaining family members, emphasizes their bravery in these difficult situations, and offers a more intimate way of telling how they confront and survive these tragedies.
* A Rustling Of Leaves: Inside The Philippine Revolution (Nettie Wild) - Filmed a year after the beginning of the administration of Corazon C. Aquino as Philippine president and had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival (Film Forum) in 1989, the film examines the left-wing revolution of the Philippines and 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. The film garnered several awards from international film festivals including People's Choice at the 1989 Berlin International Film Festival, the top Prix du Public award at the 50th anniversary celebration of the National Film Board of Canada, Grand Prize at the Houston International Film Festival, and Best Cinematography from the Society of Canadian Cinematographers.
* Mendiola Massacre (Lito Tiongson) - a newsreel of the massacre in Mendiola Bridge on January 22, 1987 where the protest action for genuine agrarian reform by peasant organizations led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) resulted in the deaths of thirteen farmers and the injuries of hundreds of civilians.
The festival will also present documentaries tackling issues on the country's environment, taboos, history, different regions and its future from October 2 to November 5, 2020. Included in the lineup are some of the best documentaries aired on television recommended by festival partners and the leading news and journalism organizations in the country which are ABS-CBN, GMA Network, Probe Productions, Rappler, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). Aside from these film screenings, the festival is also organizing Reality Check sessions which sports a documentary-esque style of tackling the most relevant issues on current events, will offer master classes helmed by industry veterans, and set to launch the Dok Book which is a collection and recollection of histories and stories centered on the rich landscape of the Philippine documentary scene in film and television.
Daang Dokyu, the first documentary film festival of its kind showcasing the largest collection of Philippine documentaries from the past one hundred years, is an initiative of the Filipino Documentary Society (FilDocs) founded by renouned documentary filmmakers Jewel Maranan, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, Baby Ruth Villarama and Coreen Jimenez. The festival is made possible through the support and partnership of the Office of the House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, NCCA, UP Film Institute and Probe Media Foundation.
