My name is Christian Cabuay, a Baybayin artist currently based in the San Francisco, California area. I was born in the Philippines and previously lived there for 10 years. The film focuses on answering the question: Does this “dead” Filipino script still exist in the modern Philippines? Follow me as I try to find Baybayin in the city of madness. As i go through my personal journey, I stumble upon some interesting people and places.
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Its a possitive new beggining for us new generation, im 45 years old and never heard of this, it leaves me thirsty for more ….thanks for doing this…i will encourage my children here in america to dig in and learn about their true roots~i have four boys and one girl which will apreciate it i know….
Thanks for the message. I’m doing it for my daughter as well!
Baybayin is only known to Artist who’s in search of our own history. In the mainstream school system in the Philippines, they don’t include this not even in history classes which is sad. I grew up in a small city called Cavite and also in search of our dying native language called “Chabacano”. I am also an artist so I truly appreciate your effort in educating people. I hope more of our kababayan, especially here in the Bay Area would learn it and use it as a part of their daily lives. This is one of the rare few things that we can call our own.
Salamat, this is dedicated to the Filipino people around the world
I want to know more about it not just to put it on my skin but to understand it to the fullest so i can be proud of what we have before the Spaniards burn out our scripts..
chabacano or chavacano is not a native language.. it came from spaniards.. and we zamboanguenio uses that everyday for communicating other people..
Our Education Ministry or DepEd should introduce this back as a school curriculum. This is one of the biggest catastrophe that the Spanish/European conquerors has brought to our homeland. They erased a big part of our history.
Is this movie available online for purchase or streaming?
It’s not done yet, I’m still filming