Inspired by a flashback about his birthmark, filmmaker Lester Alfonso is convinced that making a film will help confront a distant trauma rooted in cultural superstition. A wry, sensitive, and candidly confessional exercise in creative anthropology; by soliciting fellow mark-bearers to add their testimonies to his own, Lester documents his journey to find peace and forgiveness, and to quiet the voice in his head.
“It’s not only about the marks we are born with but the marks we imagine for ourselves.”
FINAL MASTER
December 2018
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
length: 77 min. 35 sec.
year of production: 2018
language: English/Filipino
subtitles: English
original format: various
exhibition format: digital file, DCP
screening ratio: 16:9
sound: stereo/5.1 surround sound
descriptive closed-captions
distribution V-Tape
FILM SUPPORTED BY
Ontario Arts Council
Canada Council for the Arts