Filipino film wins in Democracy Video Challenge

Long Live the Fearless Man, a short film by Aissa Peñafiel and Miguel Ocampo, was among six winners of the Democracy Video Challenge, a global video competition sponsored by the US State Department. More than 900 young filmmakers took up the Challenge, which asked contestants to use three-minute YouTube videos to complete the phrase “Democracy is…”

In an interview with ABS-CBN News, Ocampo said, “It’s a challenge to us all to practice what democracy should be, to practice the power we have at our fingertips.”