Private Project

Paraíso

Paraíso is a "direct cinema" documentary film that follows the lives of child survivors one month after the tragedy of the strongest typhoon ever recorded on earth, Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. We will see their struggles as they live on and rebuild their lives in what was once their Paraiso, which is but a memory of tragedy and great loss.

  • Nash Ang
    Director
    Water Ghetto
  • Victor Villanueva
    Producer
    My Paranormal Romance
  • Ronnie Gamboa Jr.
    Editor
  • Miguel Lorca
    Musical Director
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Direct Cinema, Environment, Climate Change
  • Runtime:
    1 hour
  • Completion Date:
    February 21, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Philippines
  • Country of Filming:
    Philippines
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    AVCHD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Opening Film - Singkuwento International Film Festival 2015
    Manila, Philippines
    February 21, 2015
    Philippine Premiere
    Opening Film
  • Closing Film - Transcultural Network Festival 2015
    South Korea
    October 15, 2015
    Closing Film
  • BEST FILM - Cine’Eco Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental da Serra da Estrela 2015
    Seia, Portugal
    October 11, 2015
    International Premiere
    BEST FILM
  • PLANETA.doc 2015 Festival Internacional de Cinema Socioambiental
    Santa Catarina, Brazil
    November 11, 2015
    Brazilian Premiere
  • ECOCUP Green Documentary Film Festival 2016
    Moscow-Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA
    February 28, 2016
    Russian Premiere
  • Sine Bughaw 2016
    Manila
    Philippines
    April 5, 2016
  • Cinema Planeta Festival Internacional de Cine y Medio Ambiente de México 2016
    Cuernavaca, MEXICO
    April 24, 2016
    Mexican Premiere
  • 9th Ecozine Film Festival
    Zaragoza, Spain
    May 15, 2016
    Spanish Premiere
  • Environmental Film Festival in Albania 2016
    Tirana
    Albania
    May 22, 2016
    Albanian Premiere
  • Smaragdni Eco Film Festival 2016
    Hrvatska Kostajnica
    Croatia
    June 10, 2016
    Croatian Premiere
  • Diwa Filipino Film Showcase of Seattle
    Seattle
    United States
    June 4, 2016
  • Filmambeinte Film Festival 2016
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    September 16, 2016
  • MASS MEDIA JURY AWARD - 15th Baikal People and Environment Film Festival 2016
    Irkutsk
    Russian Federation
    September 1, 2016
    MASS MEDIA JURY AWARD
  • SPECIAL FESTIVAL AWARD - 15th Pyongyang International Film Festival 2016
    Pyongyang
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    September 13, 2016
    North Korean Premiere
    SPECIAL FESTIVAL AWARD
Director Biography - Nash Ang

Nash Ang Gahan is one of the 2011 Ani ng Dangal for Cinema grantee in the Philippines for upholding Filipino artistic excellence in the international film scene. He won the best film on the 1st South East Asian Documentary Awards 2010 in Thailand. He is also the Grand Prize winner of the ASEAN-Korea Multimedia Competition 2010 in South Korea and the 1st Place Winner of the Asian Development Bank's My View Video Competition 2011. In 2012, he bagged the best director award 13th Pyongyang International Film Festival, North Korea.

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Director Statement

Paraíso is a moving and intimate documentary about the children survivors of typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). It captures the day to day activities of the survivors and how they cope up and rebuild their lives 1 month after the tragedy. Inspired by the documentary technique of direct cinema, we want the docu to have a real and authentic feel, as we follow their lives, like an observer.

When we made the documentary, we heard many stories both heartbreaking and inspiring. Paraíso is our message in a bottle; we want to share these stories of the child survivors to the world. We hope to touch and inspire many viewers with the documentary especially the international community, to encourage them, a call to action to help and reach out to these children. Paraíso might not be able to change minds, but it changes hearts.