In 2022, the son of a former dictator ran with the daughter of the controversial outgoing president to lead the Philippines. We spoke to the filmmaker of And So It Begins, which follows the election.
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A 'Frontline' Documentary Shows "What You Risk in Standing Up to Putin"
Daniel HautzingerAntidote follows a journalist who has exposed alleged Russian assassins – and faced threats to his life as a result, as the filmmaker explained on a recent trip to Chicago.
Revisiting the Biting Articles That Branded Chicago the "Second City"
Daniel HautzingerSeventy years ago, the New Yorker writer and New York City native A.J. Liebling published a series of articles about Chicago that saw the city as a "not-quite-metropolis" imbued with a "collective sense of disappointment." Was he right?
How Democracy Dies by 'A Thousand Cuts'
Daniel Hautzinger“I felt like we were just going back to a dark time and regressing, and I just wondered, ‘What is going on in that country?’” says the native Filipino filmmaker of A Thousand Cuts, which follows journalist Maria Ressa as she faces intimidation from the government of the Philippines.
The Vital Role of Community Newspapers Like 'The Korea Times Chicago'
Daniel HautzingerDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, The Korea Times Chicago is doing everything from providing information on public health guidance in Korean to distributing masks, but even in normal times it plays a vital role. "We'd like to think that we are the glue that holds the community together."
