by Emmanuel Palo
102 Minutes | Drama | PG-13

CAST
Alex Vincent Medina
Eula Valdes
Sid Lucero
Art Acuña
Quester Hannah
Shamaine Buencamino
Anita Linda
Rocky Salumbides
Jess Mendoza
Mariella Castillo
Dax Martin
Will Devaughn
Mitch Valdez

PRODUCTION

DIRECTOR Emmanuel Q. Palo
PRODUCERS
Emmanuel Q. Palo
Michael Tuviera
Jojo Oconer
Ramel David
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Emmanuel Q. Palo
SUPERVISING PRODUCER Susan V. Tagle
LINE PRODUCER Krisma Maclang Fajardo
SCREENPLAY
Liza C. Magtoto
Emmanuel Q. Palo
CINEMATOGRAPHER Rain Yamson II
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Joel Bilbao
EDITOR Chrisel Galeno Desuasido
SOUND DESIGNER
Addiss B. Tabong
WildSound
MUSIC Dean Rosen
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Rolando T. Inocencio
COLORIST Marilen Magsaysay

LOGLINE

Black is scientifically the absence of color, but not all who see it is color-blind, figuratively David F. weaves three stories that look into the lineage of AfricanAmericans in the Philippines – from American soldiers in the Fil-Am war to the “Amboys” in the former Clark Airfield.It begins with the Philippine American war in the early 1900s when two Filipinos want to get the reward money for capturing David Fagan, the African-American soldier who deserted the U.S. army to join the Filipino revolutionaries. Another thread of the film takes a look at the life of a Filipina who gives birth to a baby that turns out to be black-skinned during the Japanese Occupation before the return of General Douglas MacArthur in 1944. And then in contemporary times, a black, gay impersonator in a comedy bar, whose father is an African-American soldier based in Clark Air Base in Angeles City, tries to find his father who abandoned them. In the course of history, the “F” in “David F.” may spell different levels of discrimination. But would we also admit that we Filipinos are bigots ourselves?