SISTER STELLA L.

Join the NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines and
Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE)
for a screening and discussion of the classic Filipino socially-relevant film


SISTER STELLA L.


Sister Stella L. is the award-winning masterpiece by Mike De Leon. It's about a nun, Sister Stella Legaspi, who becomes involved in labor strikes after learning about the government's neglect of the poor and the working class. Her sworn duty to fight for the poor and the oppressed turns personal when her journalist friend Nick Fajardo is tortured and the union leader Dencio is kidnapped and killed. What follows is her eye-opening and the tear-jerking battle against cruelty and injustice.

The film broke censorship barriers back in 1984, during the final years of the US-backed Marcos dictatorship, for its realistic portrayal of labor struggles, and extrajudicial killings, hauntingly mirroring the reality of Philippine society today under Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Tuesday, Nov. 27th
Screening starts promptly at 7:00pm
at 55 West 17th Street, 5th floor
between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan
Trains: F/V to 14th Street

Sponsored by the NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines and
Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE)
Member organizations of BAYAN USA (www.bayanusa.org)
For more info. email nychrp@yahoo.com