Asia’s Titanic: The First Filipino-Produced National Geographic Documentary

The first ever Filipino-produced National Geographic documentary, “Asia’s Titanic” directed by Yam Laranas will air on August 25, 2009 across Asia at 8:00 PM.

This full-length documentary is about the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster, MV Doña Paz that collided with an oil tanker, MT Vector last December 1987, just five days before Christmas. For about 5,000 passengers only a few survived this unfavorable event.

In watching this documentary, you will see how the survivors painfully account the tragedy as it was reenacted. According to Andrew Roque (producer) and Yam Laranas (director), it took them 3 years to make this documentary and it really passed through an eye of a needle to be chosen by National Geographic among other foreign documentaries.

Maritime tragedies still continues to hit the Philippines however, as clarified by the producer and the team behind Asia’s Titanic that the documentary is not investigative but rather, an eye-opener for us all.

The first time I heard about this tragedy was when I attended one Red Cross training. My instructors were always using that as an example of mass casualty. I didn’t bother to search it up on the web and didn’t care.

It was shameful for me not to know about this though it happened years before I was born, it was only when I had an opportunity to be able to watch the premiere release of this documentary that I realized how catastrophic this event was. Then I said, “Ahh… yan pala yung Sulpicio na sinasabi nila…”. It opened my eyes to be socially concern about events that are happening in the country, not only that, but also in the whole world.

This documentary is another pride for us Filipinos.

So what are you waiting for… Mark your calendars on August 25, 8:00 PM and tune in at the National Geographic channel. Catch the replay on August 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM and 9:00 AM.

Posted by: Dianne Peña | 08-20-2009 | 09:08 PM
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