“Now, Covid-19 has taken aim at my subjects: elderly Filipino men and women who served in the US army but were denied benefits and citizenship by the US Congress in 1946. Some of the subjects of the film who are in lockdown have stopped responding.” - TS Botkin, Director
Read the full article at The Guardian: “'Covid is killing off the subject of my film' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry”
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