WASH OUT (2025) + Director Q&A

This documentary tells the story of how a group of landless farmers in Sicogon, the Philippines, came together and stood up against a corporate behemoth that set its sights on turning the island into a luxury tourist resort. Following three women whose lives became intertwined in the course of this long struggle, the documentary reveals the more sophisticated tactics corporations now use to break resistance to dispossession. But more than just a story of how the powerful always get their way, the documentary is also a story of how, against all odds, the disempowered fight back.

DIRECTOR BIO: Herbert Docena is an educator, researcher and filmmaker. He spent the past year living in Sicogon to produce a documentary film on the two-decade-long struggle for land in the island and to write a people’s history of this struggle.