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Lumauig's Protocols

Interviewed parallel to the resumption of the rice cultivation cycle, Ama Changat describes indigenous health protocols that tided over the Bontok Igorot people for generations against pestilence and epidemics.

Elsewhere in town, mountains continue to burn, and police apologetically announce a militaristic set of protocols imposed by the national government.

  • Carla Pulido Ocampo
    Director
  • Lester Valle
    Director
  • Balay Habi Studio
    Producer
  • Ama Changat
    Key Cast
  • Beau Macliing
    Key Cast
  • Carla Pulido Ocampo
    Editor
  • Lester Valle
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 27, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Philippines
  • Country of Filming:
    Philippines
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Carla Pulido Ocampo, Lester Valle

Lester Valle and Carla Pulido Ocampo are filmmakers and cultural workers, best known for their projects centering on the lifeways and lore of the Northern Philippine grassroots. Their filmography, meager in number, has nonetheless received consistent critical acclaim in the Philippines.

Their devoted and reverent cultural work has culminated in their formal adoption by the indigenous Bontok Igorot community of the Philippine Cordillera, a rare honor. They were hence given native names: Lester became Ngawit, and Carla became Khayapon.

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Director Statement

Lumauig's Protocols is a short ethnographic piece shot during the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines. Divided into two asymmetrical sections -- the first in black and white, the second in color -- the undercurrent of this documentary quietly questions how state policies would, more often than not, be incompatible with age-old but potent indigenous wisdom.