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Synopsis for ANGEL DE LA LUNA
When Angel de la Luna turns sixteen, she starts her own revolution. A drummer in a rock and roll band in the Philippines, she struts about Manila like she owns the city, protesting corrupt governments, fighting for the poor, and using her gift of healing to support the wounded bodies of surviving Comfort women. Just as Angel comes into her own, her overseas working mother, summons her to America. Forced to live the “American dream” against her will, Angel de la Luna rebels anew, banging drums, calling overseas and refusing to acknowledge her mother’s toddler son. Only when Angel de la Luna meets the little boy’s babysitter, an old lola from the Philippines, and learns the old woman’s secret, does the teenager come to accept her new home, to love her little brother and to forgive her well intentioned mother.
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Synopsis for LOLAS' HOUSE: WOMEN LIVING WITH WAR
Lola is the Tagalog word for grandmother. And on Matimtiman Street in Quezon City, Philippines, Lolas’ House is a community center for a special kind of grandmother. The women of Lolas’ House are survivors of WWII. In South East Asia, 200, 000 young women like Pilar Frias were taken hostage by Japanese soldiers to serve as military sex slaves. The Japanese called them Comfort Women. LOLAS’ HOUSE: Women Living with War, a book of essays and portraits, focuses on 15 surviving Filipina comfort women, the spirit of each woman and the lessons they have shared with me, an American of Filipina descent who has much to learn about the legacy of the Filipina living in war. Read more...
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Synopsis for SMOOCHES
This collection of short shorts is a series on kisses. All kinds of kisses.
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