THE KINGMAKER Documentary Films Free Screenings

FREE SCREENING

Talent attending: Lauren Greenfield (Director)

A fascinating and riveting political documentary that plays like a sprawling television family drama, THE KINGMAKER is both a definitive biography of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and an exposé of the Marcos family’s relentless — and surprisingly successful — efforts to achieve a stunning political comeback. With Marcos pushing her son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos to reclaim his father’s political throne lost when the dictator was deposed by the People Power Revolution of the 1980s, the family’s prospects of a return to power are chillingly real. Making the most of her extraordinary access to Marcos and assembling a dazzling array of documentary materials, interviews and observational moments, award-winning filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES) crafts a 360° portrait of a legendary cultural icon and rigorously exposes a family’s bald and corrupt power grab. –Ken Jacobson