DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Ang Duyan ng Magiting (The Cradle of the Brave) is a film about grief. It is a contemplation and a meditation on the agony of an entire nation. The film grieves for the courageous men and women who have suffered in the name of nation and nationalism. As one of the characters in the film asserts, “In the cradle of the brave, many sleep, but no one wakes.”

Our film is a cautionary tale. It is an appeal to listen to the better angels of our nature; a call for reason, empathy, and patience. It is a reminder that all this pain and anger we feel comes from a sincere, but wounded place.

It is my hope that the acknowledgement of this pain can help us all heal from the shared trauma we suffered - because of the cruelty and bloodshed we collectively witnessed and endured - in the last few years of our nation’s recent history.