Signed: Lino Brocka

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream film industry of the Philippines. Primarily using interviews with the effusive director himself, Blackwood allows Brocka to describe, in his own terms, the common thematic threads tying together his work, including his own homosexuality and the political repression suffered by Filipinos during Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorial government.