Project Detail

Diwata

Name: Diwata
Director: Giulia Casalini, Ram Botero
Genre: Asian, Climate / Environment, Experimental, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+
Released: 2024
Duration: 14 min 59 sec

A woman with a divine glow stands in a luxuriant tropical green forest. She gives us her back.

Synopsis

DIWATA is a performance for camera, exploring precolonial Philippine mythology from a contemporary, ecotransfeminist lens. Engaging with notions of gender and ecology through a spiritually anitist lens (anito being the locally specific nature spirits), DIWATA introduces three manifestations of the divine: Dalikmata, Magindara and Tara, who appear in three different ecologies of Mindanao.

Details

Year: 2024
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 14 min 59 sec
Format: cinemascope 2.35:1
Director: Giulia Casalini, Ram Botero
Producer: Giulia Casalini, Ram Botero
Editor: Wowa Medroso
Screenwriter: Giulia Casalini
Director of Photography: Wowa Medroso, Niya B
Sound: Joee Mejias
Principal cast: Ram Botero

Genre

Asian Climate / Environment Experimental Fantasy LGBTQIA+ Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Giulia Casalini

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