Machete Maidens Unleashed!

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.

• movie business
• exploitation
• interview
• philippines
• b movie
• filmmaking
• documentary filmmaking
• film production
• cinema history
• indigenous filmmaking
• low-budget filmmaking
• film producer
• director interview