“A full life, serving a higher purpose”

In early 2016, I was interviewed by a young group of filmmakers commissioned by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines to produce a new documentary on Jose Rizal. It was a blast—but I did not know until yesterday that the documentary (or perhaps the more accurate term is drama-documentary) had already been released, and was available on YouTube.

Very happy to see this particular interpretation of the Rizal narrative out in the wild; it gave me the opportunity, in company with the two (genuine!) historians the filmmakers also interviewed, to contribute what I hope is a fuller sense of the true Rizal.