Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan's "The Headhunter's Daughter" won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the recently concluded 38th Sundance Film Festival held in the United States of America.
The Cordilleran film, which made its world premiere at the festival's Shorts Program 4, is only the second Filipino short film to ever compete in the prestigious festival.
Don Josephus Raphael is an independent filmmaker born of Ifugao and Visayan descent. His works explore themes of trauma, and nature told through the cosmic lens of post-colonial spaces and indigenous identities.
Eblahan's historic win at the Shorts Program 4 completes the country's successful participation in the festival as Martika Escobar's "Leonor Will Never Die" claims the 'Special Jury Award for Innovative Spirit' which is also the country's first-ever win in the festival's World Cinema Dramatic Section.
