IA conversation with director Alyx Ayn Arumpac about her remarkably powerful and brave film, ASWANG. ASWANG tells the story of the national war on drugs in the Philippines. Since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 and announced his campaign to rid the Philippines of drug addicts and dealers, as many as 20,000 Filipinos have been murdered — usually at night and always at the hands of vigilantes, hired assassins, or police officers. In her unflinching debut feature d...
