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I was on a trip for some documentary film project in Mindanao, the beleaguered region in southern Philippines that has lately figured in international news once again due to radical Islamists and their kidnap-for-ransom enterprise, when I found myself in a small dusty town in deepest darkest Mindanao. I quickly finished shooting the interviews for [...]

Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, has been a battleground between government forces and radical Islamists for four decades. Recent massive fighting erupted after the ancestral domain agreement for an expanded Muslim land in Mindanao was judged illegal by the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The Muslims are deemed not rightful [...]