Pinoy Film ‘Kano’ Wins Major Award in International Documentary Film Festival
“Kano: An American and His Harem” is a full-length documentary feature by Monster Jimenez. It was a story that made headlines in 2002 when an American Vietnam war hero was convicted of two counts of rape.
The film is funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (Philippines), the Asian Network of Documentary (South Korea) and the Goteborg Film Fund (Sweden). It is the first documentary project of Arkeofilms.
“Kano” became the first Filipino documentary film that has ever made it to the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), considered the the biggest and most prestigious documentary film festival in the world. It was chosen among 3,200 entries and bagged €5000 in cash prize for winning the Best First Appearance Award.
Watch the trailer of “Kano” here: