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Under Sam LipmanвЂ™s lightly intriguing, noodling score, nighttime cityscapes give Manila the seedy buzz of a dystopian sci-fi, and even the talking-head interviews have a certain nervy, noirish sheen. The intimidation they face is no hollow threat: as DiazвЂ™s film makes clear, DuterteвЂ™s officials - here exemplified by Ronald вЂњBatoвЂќ dela Rosa, his bald, baby-faced Mussolini-like lieutenant, to whom Diaz also gains surprisingly frank access - have been responsible for literally thousands of extrajudicial murders under the flimsy guise of the вЂњwar on drugs.вЂќДЇor a category of filmmaking where the craft is often utilitarian at best, the footage is unusually well-shot by DPs Gabriel Goodenough and Jeffrey Johnson.

A THOUSAND CUTS MOVIE FREE

In the years since, Rappler and its journalists (many of whom are women, which takes on special significance when you consider the regimeвЂ™s gleeful, violent misogynistic rhetoric) have become specific targets of DuterteвЂ™s ire, even as Ressa has become increasingly celebrated overseas as a champion of free speech and a shining example of journalistic integrity. вЂњA Thousand CutsвЂќ original production funding provided by Cinereach, Catapult Film Fund, Sundance Institute, and International Documentary Association (IDA).Ressa, along with three other female journalists, runs Rappler, an online news portal she co-founded in 2012 that soon became the staunchest debunker of the misinformation and вЂњfake newsвЂќ that helped Filipino strongman Rodrigo Duterte gain power in 2016. Hagler Foundation and Koo and Patricia Yuen. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation Park Foundation the Heising-Simons Foundation the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

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Love FRONTLINE? Find us on the PBS Video App where there are more than 300 FRONTLINE documentaries available for you to watch any time: ДЇunding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The producers are Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements and Carolyn Hepburn. The executive producers are Laurene Powell Jobs, Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan Silberberg, Nicole Stott, Raney Aronson-Rath, David J. вЂњA Thousand CutsвЂќ is a Concordia Studio, Motto Pictures, and CineDiaz production, developed in association with Topic for GBH/FRONTLINE. 8, 2021.Д¬hristiane Amanpour, Maria Ressa & Ramona Diaz in Conversation About вЂњA Thousand CutsвЂќ: broadcast premiere on FRONTLINE (PBS) Friday, Jan. In the wake of the debut of вЂњA Thousand CutsвЂќ at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, The New York Times called it вЂњabsorbingвЂќ (CriticвЂ™s Pick) The Washington Post said it is вЂњutterly urgentвЂќ and The Hollywood Reporter described it as вЂњessential.вЂќ The documentary has its U.S. What happens to democracy when press freedom is threatened and disinformation flourishes on social media? In вЂњA Thousand Cuts,вЂќ award-winning filmmaker Ramona Diaz tells the story of President DuterteвЂ™s crackdown on the press, his pursuit of Ressa and her colleagues, the role of online disinformation, and the implications for democracy. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. How prominent journalist Maria Ressa became a prime target of Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteвЂ™s war on the press.

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