Filipinos Win 2 Historic Firsts at Sundance Film Festival

Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (left), director of ‘The Headhunter’s Daughter,” and Martika Ramirez Escobar, director of “Leonor Will Never Die.”

For her directorial debut, the film-within-a-film “Leonor Will Never Die,” Martika Ramirez Escobar was given the Special Jury Prize for Innovative Spirit at the World Cinema Dramatic section, making her the first Filipino feature film director to win at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Meanwhile Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, earned the country’s first-ever Sundance win for a short film with “The Headhunter’s Daughter” (See INQUIRER.net for story).