Twelve, Lester Alfonso, provided by the National Film Board of Canada (44 min. 2009) If you could go back and speak to your 12-year-old self, what would you say? Through this documentary, Philippine-born filmmaker Lester Alfonso attempts to answer this question by interviewing twelve diverse subjects, each of whom moved to Canada at age 12, — Read More
TRYING TO BE SOME KIND OF HERO (37 min. 2003) A surprisingly fresh take on the personal documentary, which deftly sidesteps the genre’s potential for exploitation and solipsism. Armed with a couple of cameras and an intimate visual flair, Alfonso travels to the Philippines to find out the truth about his real grandfather. With the — Read More