Call Her Ganda

Name: Call Her Ganda
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 21, 2018
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Julita Laude, Meredith Talusan, Naomi Fontanos, Virginia Lacsa Suarez

2018

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Breaking Glass Pictures | Release Date: September 21, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Julita Laude, Meredith Talusan, Naomi Fontanos, Virginia Lacsa Suarez

Summary: When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Director: PJ Raval

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Frank Scheck

Sep 20, 2018

Handling its complex issues and complicated plot developments with forceful clarity, the film proves simultaneously heartbreaking and inspirational. Read full review

Norman Gidney

Sep 20, 2018

Call Her Ganda is not a bad documentary, but it is one with entirely too much to say in one 93 minute piece. Brevity is the soul of wit, but in this case, focus would be the soul of the debate. Read full review

Juan Barquin

Sep 27, 2018

Call Her Ganda works best when it’s focused on Laude and the case of her murder, an overwhelming showcase of empathy and persistence in the face of American racism and transmisogyny. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 27, 2018

Even with its stumbling nature, though, Call Her Ganda is still a valiant effort to fuse inquiry, testimony, heart and protest in dealing with its complex intertwining of facts and issues. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Sep 20, 2018

Call Her Ganda (“ganda” means “beautiful” in Tagalog) remains commendable for its focus on the case, and for its insistence that the crime against Ms. Laude not be forgotten. Read full review

Nick Schager

Sep 20, 2018

With access to only one side of its central conflict, and a scattershot approach that skims over key details and points of interest, this well-intentioned documentary leaves audiences feeling like they’re only getting part of a much larger story. Read full review

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