A documentary festival tracing the Filipino story is coming your way

Philippine cinema has been celebrated tremendously for the past 100 years, but what about the films that tell real stories about real Filipinos?

The Filipino Documentary Society (FilDocs) invites you to the first-ever  "Daang Dokyu" Philippine documentary festival to be held March 16 to 21, 2020 at Cine Adarna at the University of the Philippines.

"ASWANG," Alyx Arumpac's film about President Duterte's anti-illegal drug campaign, is set to open the Daang Dokyu documentary film festival at the Cine Adarna, UPFI Film Center on March 16-21 @gmanews pic.twitter.com/9y3btkBDv9

— Margaret Claire Layug (@MClaireLayug) February 19, 2020

The six-day event is set to present 55 Philippine documentary films, opening with Alyx Ayn Arumpac's film "Aswang" which tells the story of the campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte to rid the Philippines of drug addicts and dealers.

Daang Dokyu will also unveil some of the earliest known documentary materials as early as the 1900s, as well as some of the latest and much- anticipated films to be released this year.

"These films are a combination of very old and very new," one of the festival directors, Jewel Maranan, told the press on Wednesday.

"From as early as the turn of the 1900s to as recent as this month, February 2020, fresh from the editing board."

DAANG DOKYU 2020: There will be a 6-day documentary film festival showcasing Philippine documentaries on March 16 to 21, 2020 at the Cine Adarna, UPFI Film Center, Diliman, Quezon City. @gmanews pic.twitter.com/KUtfvAtBnS

— Margaret Claire Layug (@MClaireLayug) February 19, 2020

Apart from that, documentary filmmakers and enthusiasts alike are also invited to take part in various industry sessions during the six-day event.

These include roundtables, lectures, and masterclasses of renowned documentarists in the industry on the most relevant and pressing concerns of the documentary community and industry. — LA, GMA News