FILMMAKER’S STATEMENT
ANA BARREDO Producer | Writer | Director
In 2003, I wrote The Year I Did Nothing, with the intention of shooting it on location in the Philippines. Unfortunately, weeks before the start of production, our funding fell through and we never made the movie.
In 2018, I revisited my script and realized that its theme feels more relevant now than ever before, in light of what’s going on in the world. And given my personal connection with the story, I became more determined than ever, to shoot my 15-year old script.
In the summer of 2018, we made The Year I Did Nothing.
Synopsis
Set in turbulent Manila of 1985, three siblings spend an extended summer awaiting emigration with their parents to the United States.
Meanwhile, they must bear witness to the eviction of an elected official turned authoritarian dictator – the notorious Ferdinand Marcos.
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News
TYIDN on CNN!
PalacioMagazine.com spoke with Ana Barredo by phone about the long gestation period for the film, the challenge of making a feature-length foreign language film whose main characters include kids under 10, and shooting in Los Angeles while making it look like Manila in the 1980s for under $50K.
