''Bunso'' (''The Youngest'') is a
documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
by
Filipino filmmakers Ditsi Carolino and Nana Buxani.
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Plot
Three boys, Tony, 13, Diosel, and Bunso, 11, are struggling to survive in a crowded Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center
Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) is a jail facility in Cebu, in Cebu Province, Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southea ...
in Cebu
Cebu ( ; ), officially the Province of Cebu (; ), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 167 surrounding islands and islets. The coastal zone of Cebu is identified as a ...
, alongside adult rapists and murderers. The two street-smart boys paint a picture of the world of children caught between extreme poverty and the law.
Release
''Bunso'' was shown in December 2004 on a limited screening. In November 2004, it had its offshore world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in the Netherlands where it was shown as part of the non-competition Reflecting Images section.
Awards
Ditsi Carolino received the Best Director award for the documentary film ''Bunso'' (The Youngest) at the OneWorld 2005 documentary films festival held in Prague, Czech Republic.
* Best Director—One World Film Festival
One World (Czech: ''Jeden svět'') is a human rights film festival (125,947 spectators in 2018), held annually in Prague and other 36 cities of the Czech Republic, with a selection later shown in Brussels and other countries. The festival highlig ...
, Prague
* Grand Prix—EBS International Documentary Festival
EBS International Documentary Festival also known as EIDF, is an annual film festival hosted by the Educational Broadcasting System of South Korea since 2004. It is "Asia’s prestigious documentary festival", with focus on highlighting documenta ...
, Seoul
* Youth Jury Prize— Perspektive - Filmfestival der Menschenrechte, Nuremberg
* Best Short Film, Gawad Urian
The Gawad Urian Awards are annual film awards in the Philippines presented since 1977 by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (), a Film criticism, film critic organization composed of critics, writers, and scholars. It is the regarded as the h ...
References
External links
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Ma-Yi Theater Company, newsletter
Documentary films about child abuse
Documentary films about the penal system
Philippine documentary films
2005 films
2005 documentary films
2000s Tagalog-language films
Penal system in the Philippines
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