Forging Empowered Communities is about the good practices and lessons learned in CDRC’s disaster preparedness projects all over the country. Produced by the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC), a non-government organization that pioneered and continues to promote community-based disaster management in the Philippines, this project was made possible through partnership with the Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and the German Federal Foreign Office.
Script: Dakila Aquino and Karl Ramirez
Director: Karl Ramirez
Camera: Karl Ramirez, Dakila Aquino and the CDRC staff
Sundial is a documentary me and my father Engr. Mon Ramirez made for the UP Diliman College of Engineering.
Year: 2006
Prometheus Bound was produced by Agham (Advocates of Science and Technology for the People) and the Science for Society Program of the College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman.
The film dissects how despite the numerous advances in science and technology, the country’s capacity and economy remains backward. And how the science and technology community struggles in advocating science and technology for the majority of the Filipino people.
Writer, Director: Karl Ramirez
Camera: Karl Ramirez, Ron Magbuhos-Papag, Riza Jopson, and Weng Castillo
Year: 2006
I was the editor and shared some tasks with the camera in Pulitika ng Masa, a BikolXPress documentary.
Politics of the people, politics advocating the interest of the people. Advocating change for the interest of the people. The documentary introduces the six progressive partylists advocating the politics of the people: Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Gabriela Women’s Party, Migrante Partylist, Suara Bangsamoro, and the Anak ng Bayan Partylist (now the Kabataan Partylist). Five of the partylists participated for the first time in the 2004 elections. This was the second partylist elections participated by Bayan Muna.
