"The Abortion Ban May Be Protecting the Unborn, But It's Killing Our Women": Antoinette Jadaone on Sunshine

Around sixteen years ago, the late great Filipino film critic Alexis Tioseco saw Antoinette Jadaone's student short films 'plano (2005) and Saling Pusa (2006) and began championing her work. In the words of critic Oggs Cruz, Tioseco thought Jadaone was "the person that is most qualified to give Filipino mainstream filmmaking that much-needed burst of novel inspiration," given that her "shorts are all tightly packaged confections that marry the popular appeal of mainstream escapist entertainment ...