GMA Public Affairs' first investigative docu-film 'Lost Sabungeros' premieres in Cinemalaya 2024

July 14 2024

By AARON BRENNT EUSEBIO

GMA Public Affairs and GMA Pictures' first investigative documentary film, Lost Sabungeros, will be shown at the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival this August.
  
"Ito ang masusing imbestigasyon tungkol sa sunod-sunod na pagkawala ng mahigit tatlumpung sabungero noong 2022. Kumusta na ang kanilang mga pamilya? Higit sa lahat, nasaan na ang mga nawawalang sabungero?" the caption read.

 

 

 

 

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When the pandemic shut down all cockfighting arenas in the Philippines, the century-old gambling blood sport moved online and grew into a money-making machine overnight, creating instant millionaires among its cockfighters. But things took a shocking turn when more than 30 men disappeared without a trace.

Over a span of nine months, groups of cockfighters disappeared in three major arenas, while others were abducted in their homes or on the road. Two years after the serial disappearances, not one has been found—dead or alive. 

Lost Sabungeros, directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Bryan Brazil and produced by the team behind Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho, follows the families of the missing in their agonizing search for answers.