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Busan\u2019s Asian Project Market<\/a> has selected \u201cHeaven Help Us<\/a>,\u201d a politically charged drama from Filipino director Eve Baswel<\/a> that confronts one of the darkest chapters in the country\u2019s cultural history: the 1981 collapse of the Manila Film Center<\/a>. The project is produced by John Torres<\/a>, Jules Katanyag<\/a>, and Danzen Santos Katanyag<\/a>, with the team aiming to secure international partners, co-production support and pre-sales at the market.<\/p>\n

Baswel said she was compelled to tell the story after connecting her own experiences in the precarious labor force with the workers who lost their lives during construction of the center. \u201cWorkers died building what was meant to be a showcase for the elite\u2019s film festival, and the Marcos<\/a> regime\u2019s alleged response was to pour cement over the victims and proceed with the event. This image \u2013 the literal burial of the working class for the sake of spectacle \u2013 became deeply embedded in my consciousness,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busan\u2019s Asian Project Market has selected \u201cHeaven Help Us,\u201d a politically charged drama from Filipino director Eve Baswel that confronts one of the darkest chapters in the country\u2019s cultural history: the 1981 collapse of the Manila Film Center. The project is produced by John Torres, Jules Katanyag, and Danzen Santos Katanyag, with the team aiming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2038878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Manila-Film-Center-Tragedy-Revisited-in-\u2018Heaven-Help-Us-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}