CANLUBANG:
31 October
2013
-- This
is
well worth watching!
The
dialogue is in Tagalog but is subtitled in English. If these
are just
high schools tudents then they are really going somewhre in
this
medium! The title they give it is The Story of the Knot.
What would you
call it?
If Don Bosco were alive today, he would grab all opportunity
to access
whatever new technology there is to realize his lifelong
dream. With
this in mind, dream@nineproductions is born – in honor of our
patron
saint whose mission in life started with a simple childhood
dream.
Dream@nine productions is just a small group of high school
media
enthusiasts in Don Bosco College, Canlubang(FIN). Members
share their
love for video making and photography and endeavour to compete
in media
competitions outside the school. Moreover, this group intends
to spread
the message of youth empowerment and social awareness through
its
simple documentaries.
Moved by a previously produced documentary posted inYoutube,
Fr.
Vitaliano “Chito” Dimaranan, SDB commissioned dream@nine to
make a
short film to be used in the Philippine Conference on New
Evangelization (PCNE) on October 15 to 17. The topic: growing
strong in
broken places. The concept begins with the story of how Fr.
Chito as a
young Salesian knotted a mango sapling, not thinking that it
would
survive in such knotted state. The sapling survived and became
a tree,
with its knotted trunk as its strongest part. Relating this
story to
the situation of many young people today, and weaving in the
imagery of
a broken Christ, dream@nine produced “AngKuwento ni Buhol”
(The Story
of Knot).
This is a story of an orphan boy who grows up physically and
emotionally abused by his own brother. Later, he becomes like
his
brother. He lives a broken life on drugs and violence and vows
to get
even to his brother by harming others. Having escaped from a
drug raid
and racked by a sense of emptiness, he finds himself in the
most
unusual situation, and discovers a figure that leads him to
reality.
The short film was positively received in PCNE, and in
theyouth group’s
own school. Now, dream@nine takes the challenge of spreading
the
message of growing strong despite one’s brokenness through the
most
widespread video sharing site. May all who watch the short
film find
hope for a brighter tomorrow in a world that has been
distracted by
suffering.
