Serving a life sentence, a woman finds solace and freedom in dance.
Dance for Life is a documentary portrait of a former death row inmate who uses her art to uplift the lives of her fellow prisoners.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Baby Ruth Villarama – whose Sunday Beauty Queen was the first ever documentary to win the Metro Manila Film Festival in 2016 – Dance for Life is the latest in a series of short films produced by the Coalition Against Death Penalty and funded by the Commission on Human Rights.
For more Filipino short films, watch Conchita and Contemporary Bayani on Act One. – Rappler.com
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