• Source: Tadhana (film)

      • Tadhana (or Nonoy Marcelo's "Tadhana") [lit. "Fate"] is a 1978 Philippine adult animated historical satire film written and directed by cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo in his directorial debut.
      Based on a book of the same name by Ferdinand Marcos, the tenth president of the Philippines, the film was commissioned by the Marcos' government with Imee Marcos as a producer to develop the first-ever Philippine feature-length animated film established in the 1970s.


      Premise


      The film presents a satirical, humorous and poignant view of the Philippines' history of Spanish colonization through highly original and surreal vignettes fusing art, mythology and music.


      Production


      After his first interest of animation filmmaking in the Philippines, he was hired by the government and worked in animation at the National Media Production Center beginning in 1977. Then, he collaborated with Imee Marcos and José Zabala-Santos by creating the first-ever Philippine full-length animated film, which originally conceived as a television pilot that sought to teach the nation's history from the perspective of the Marcos administration. The film took production in three months.


      Release


      Tadhana was broadcast as a television film on GMA 7, RPN 9, and IBC 13 to commemorate the anniversary of Martial Law in 1978.


      Legacy


      Following the immense success of Tadhana and the "turning point" of Filipino animation as a hub for subcontracted labor in the 1980s, aspiring animators continued to be dominate the film industry as filmmakers to create their own work as the regime took over by the rebellion. Due to lack of commercial release in local theaters, the film was never credited to be the first animated film in the Philippines until Adarna: The Mythical Bird in 1997.
      Tadhana was screened at the National Gallery Singapore’s ‘Painting with Light,’ an annual festival of international films on art. Before the screening, the film was rated NC16 for "some nudity" by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).


      References




      External links


      Tadhana at IMDb

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