Sa Rio Tuba

Rio Tuba in Palawan is the site of the one of the biggest nickel open pit mine in the Philippines. It is also home to a once thriving fishing community along the Togpon River. Bobby Siplan, fisherman, and Lagrimas Padilla, fish vendor, are both members of this community. Two lives whose daily struggle to make a living ebb and flow with the changes wrought upon the river by the mining industry. The mine promises a harvest of bounty. Bobby and Lagrimas think otherwise. This is their story. “Sa Rio Tuba” was screened to the public last 20 August 2015 (Thursday) at Room PH 400, Palma Hall, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman. “Sa Rio Tuba” is a production of the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center (TWSC), in partnership with the Department of Political Science of the Université de Montréal (UdM) under the Student for Development project. Since 2011, undergraduate students from the UdM and interns from TWSC have collaborated to make short documentaries on a particular theme. “Sa Rio Tuba” is a documentary by Rae Red, Rosanna Tiranti, Ken Bejer, and Ervic Angeles.