“Long Live the Fearless Man” by Aissa Peñafiel and Miguel Ocampo is one of six winners of the Democracy video Challenge, launched online and at the United Nations. The competition invited citizens around the world to engage in an online dialogue on the nature of democracy by submitting video shorts that completed the phrase “Democracy is…”
Peñafiel and Ocampo said they wanted their video to have a “truly Filipino message” and not just limited to the presidential elections and Charter change. “As filmmakers, we want our films to be socially relevant,”
This video questions the way democracy is often operationalized, and how hunger and despair and fear and greed engulf and distort the practice of democracy. There is only one actor, and his body becomes a canvas for expressing the frustrations and tensions around democracy.”