Emerging Filmmaker Set Hernandez Rongkilyo Strives for Poetry in the Political
Five years since embarking on their documentary-in-progress, Unseen, Set Hernandez Rongkilyo is finally starting to feel seen as a filmmaker, and as a person….
Five years since embarking on their documentary-in-progress, Unseen, Set Hernandez Rongkilyo is finally starting to feel seen as a filmmaker, and as a person….
“I spent a lot of time in my career, being what I like to call the slightly shrill person in the room, the person who is always pointing at people.”
“We believe that data is beautiful, or can be beautiful and compelling. So we put a lot of time and thought into how data are visualized and presented.”
“I think authenticity is often misused. For me, authenticity is a feeling and emotion that you can invoke in somebody that something’s genuine.”
The New York filmmaker learned by doing, to create documentaries that illuminate the experiences of East Coast Chinese communities.