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Marcos Sr. documentary ‘The Kingmaker’ will soon be available 5 Filipino languages

After releasing the film online and for free, producer and director of the film Lauren Greenfield said that the documentary will soon be captioned in Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano, Bicol, and Hiligaynon.

The availability in multiple Filipino dialect will allow the film to be accessible to even more Filipinos.

From Wikipedia;

The Kingmaker is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by Lauren Greenfield, featuring the political career of Imelda Marcos with a focus on the Marcos family’s efforts to rehabilitate the family’s image and to return to political power,[7][8] including her plans to see her son Bongbong become President of the Philippines,and the alliance that Bongbong and Imee Marcos established with Rodrigo Duterte in his bid to win the 2016 Philippine presidential election.

It debuted internationally in August 2019 at the 76th Venice Film Festival, and debuted in the Philippines on January 29, 2020.

The Kingmaker was nominated as best documentary at the London Film Festival and the Stockholm Film Festival, and for the Checkpoints Award at the Bergen International Film Festival. It was nominated for four categories in the 2019 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards, eventually winning the award for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary. It also received the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2019.

To watch the film, you can go to Vimeo or copy and past this link: https://vimeo.com/358556466.

Lauren Greenfield’s The Kingmaker now free to stream online

If you are one of the people waiting for Lauren Greenfield’s critically acclaimed documentary The Kingmaker, then you can now watch the film online and for free.

Last March 11, 2022, Lauren Greenfield announced the availability of the film on her twitter account.

From Wikipedia;

The Kingmaker is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by Lauren Greenfield, featuring the political career of Imelda Marcos with a focus on the Marcos family’s efforts to rehabilitate the family’s image and to return to political power,[7][8] including her plans to see her son Bongbong become President of the Philippines,and the alliance that Bongbong and Imee Marcos established with Rodrigo Duterte in his bid to win the 2016 Philippine presidential election.

It debuted internationally in August 2019 at the 76th Venice Film Festival, and debuted in the Philippines on January 29, 2020.

The Kingmaker was nominated as best documentary at the London Film Festival and the Stockholm Film Festival, and for the Checkpoints Award at the Bergen International Film Festival. It was nominated for four categories in the 2019 Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards, eventually winning the award for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary. It also received the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2019.

To watch the film, you can go to Vimeo or copy and past this link: https://vimeo.com/358556466.