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Bunso (The Youngest). Directed by Ditsi Carolino. Philippines: Consuelo Foundation and the United Nations Children&#;s Fund, 63 minutes, Cebuano with English subtitles, color.

First published in Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 19, 1 ():

The power of form and visual images as captured in documentary films is manifested more strongly when used as a tool for popularizing social and political issues.

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Documentary films are therefore used as means to mobilize support needed in addressing critical yet often taken for granted issues that call for urgent and passionate response from the public. More importantly, they bring the audience face to face with these vexing, often vile realities.

Beyond providing the audience an accurate picture, films of this genre succeed in evoking the appropriate sentiments to rally commitment behind certain advocacy objectives. They lay bare both the latent complexities and tragic elements of the issue and generate condemnation agains