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Call Her Ganda
Description
In a documentary story about the world of criminality and savage murder against innocents. That story began when a girl named Jennifer Lud, a Filipina woman, was brutally murdered by a Marine. The case raised terrible events and great controversy. On the other hand, three women investors drew up a real plan to decide the case and create a political uprising to hold the killers, an activist lawyer, a journalist and Jennifer's mother. The three women tried to create a political uprising to hold murderers accountable and expose American imperialism.
In a documentary story about the world of criminality and savage murder against innocents. That story began when a girl named Jennifer Lud, a Filipina woman, was brutally murdered by a Marine. The case raised terrible events and great controversy. On the other hand, three women investors drew up a real plan to decide the case and create a political uprising to hold the killers, an activist lawyer, a journalist and Jennifer's mother. The three women tried to create a political uprising to hold murderers accountable and expose American imperialism.
Actors:
Julita Laude,
Naomi Fontanos,
Virginia Lacsa Suarez,
Meredith Talusan
Julita Laude
Naomi Fontanos
Virginia Lacsa Suarez
Meredith Talusan
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
PJ Raval
Country:
United States, Philippines
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April 26, 2018
This is a film that doesn't shy away from challenging anyone's attitudes about trans people and the ongoing effects of colonialism.
September 27, 2018
Even with its stumbling nature... "Call Her Ganda" is still a valiant effort to fuse inquiry, testimony, heart and protest in dealing with its complex intertwining of facts and issues.
November 03, 2018
Following one of the most gut-wrenching events in the history of the Filipino trans movement, Call Her Ganda is a staggering and thought-provoking documentary on the epidemic of violence against LGBTQ people.
April 24, 2018
A languidly told retrospective of Jennifer Laude's homicide, which meshes poignantly with the equally torpid, creaky judicial wheels of the U.S.-Filipino military industrial complex.
May 18, 2018
Raval makes the audience see the continued hatred and prejudice against trans women that often manifests into violence.
October 16, 2018
Call Her Ganda works best when it's focused on Laude and the case of her murder, an overwhelming showcase of empathy and persistence in the face of American racism and transmisogyny
September 20, 2018
"My life has value," Ms. Laude once declared. She was right, and this film takes that truth to heart.
May 09, 2018
We have several very important issues all exploding at once here.
April 20, 2018
As suspenseful as it is moving.
April 21, 2018
Call Her Ganda is just one of many transgender stories needing to be told.
April 24, 2018
With access to only one side of its central conflict, and a scattershot approach that skims over key details and points of interest, this well-intentioned documentary leaves audiences feeling like they're only getting part of a much larger story.
