And So It Begins

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And So It Begins

2024

1h 55m

Documentary

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Amid Filipino elections, a grassroots movement emerges to protect truth and democracy from growing threats. People unite in joyful acts of resistance, kindling hope while autocracy expands.

Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

01/25/2024

Ramona S. Diaz’s documentary is a shaggy, shapeless film.

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Siddhant Adlakha

Variety

01/23/2024

Features neither the narrative and aesthetic intensity needed for an up-to-the-minute chronicle, nor the political depth required of such vital subject matter.

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

Jun 6

The ending will feel very familiar to anyone who experienced the aftermath of the 2024 election

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

12/19/2024

B

I doubt there is a more frighteningly timely political film this year than Ramona S. Diaz’s And So It Begins...after November 5th, it plays like a How-To book for the Trump campaign–taken directly from the Hitler-Mussolini model.

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Paul Emmanuel Enicola

The Movie Buff

07/04/2024

B

A fitting companion piece to “A Thousand Cuts,” “And So It Begins” is an insightful film that documents hope and the fight for democracy in a country mired in misinformation.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

05/10/2024

And So provides more chilling proof that fascism seems to be the rising political flavor of preference around the world, and that resistance is desperately needed.

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Synopsis

Amid Filipino elections, a grassroots movement emerges to protect truth and democracy from growing threats. People unite in joyful acts of resistance, kindling hope while autocracy expands.

Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Producer: Ramona S. Diaz
Screenwriter: Ramona S. Diaz
Distributor: Solar Pictures
Production Co: Cinediaz, Independent Lens, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 55m