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The fully-restored version of Lino Brocka’s "Maynila Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag" was the fourth Filipino film shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. We talked to Bono Olgado of the National Film Archives about the circumstances that led to it.
Take us a bit through the restoration. How did it start and how long did it take?
The task of archiving, preservation and restoration has always been difficul. Has it gotten easier? What’s the general outlook?
Four restorations in eight months are pretty damn good. Is it enough? Not nearly. How I wish we could release at least one newly restored film per month. But it’s not about how many or how fast we can churn out restored films. Restoration is dependent on the availability of elements to restore. If you have no salvageable elements, there will be nothing to restore at all. It all starts with preservation. We at FDCP and NFAP take to this task optimistically, but grounded in practical actions and sustainable strategies. There are matters currently being addressed with regard to sustainability. Restoration is an expensive endeavor. The key is to make it a sustainable one. This is where the public comes in. Beyond the resources, expertise, and political will that we are slowly gaining, what we really need more than anything else is the cooperation of our stakeholders and the general public’s support. If we want to see more films restored, then we should go and support these films accordingly. Go and pay for a ticket, buy a DVD. More than discreet government funding and more than the dictates of the private market, public support will shape the direction and economics of preservation and restoration. The archives can neither be built in a day, nor is it built solely by a few. Without a doubt it’s going to be a difficult endeavor, but one we don’t intend giving up on. It’s going to be a very long road ahead; we’re just hoping we’re not going to be alone as we traverse it.
What’s next?
We actually have a number of short films being restored at the moment, including  Henry Francia’s On My Way to India Consciousness, I Reached China and a number of Mowelfund films. As for our next feature-length restoration, we are researching but would definitely love to hear from the public what film they would like to see again in its full cinematic glory.
