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Bebot videos: feminist critiques (4 of 5)
Most of the dancers and background talent in the videos were volunteers due to the budget constraints. They also brought and wore their own clothes.
Ginelsa was initially shocked and pained when first reading the open letter. “Anyone who knows me knows how much I care about the community. To come from it internally, it hurt because these are the same issues that I was wrestling with for a full year, it was the reason why we went back and forth.” Ginelsa was replaced as director and originally wrote 5-6 different versions of the video.
Rondilla emphasized, “The impact of the letter, when we wrote it, we didn’t want to insult or hurt anybody. It was really about posing a set of questions posing a set of challenges, that companies like KidHeroes and Xylophone Films have. It’s also about Pilipino media in general and really about posing these questions and hopefully starting for debate. It wasn’t about breaking down anybody and for me the greatest disservice is not to pose questions to the community. We’re not doing ourselves a favor by kind of biting our tongues about certain things. That’s why we thought the letter was important.” Ginelsa cried, “People are misreading this open letter, initially people aren’t reading it. People immediately think it’s attacking me literally, when in reality they’re telling me what they have problems with. It’s their one reading of the video and they want to make sure that in any of my future projects that I’m aware of this issue. My response to that is I’m aware of the issue, I’ve always known of this issue. I’m not saying ‘oh we hate the video, we hate Patricio.’ I thinks that’s what/how people are misreading the letter. That’s reason why I have a problem with the letter. By putting it in the public first, you’re already now open for other people to misread the letter…The open letter killed any chance for this video to be on MTV. It denied other people to see it.” Rondilla said that the signers of the open letter did not know about the VH1 campaign to air the video during the time it was written and circulated. The intent was not meant to affect the movement for the video to gain airplay. “If there’s anything I think people misconstrued [it’s that] people think that we kind of waged war on them.” Rondilla reemphasized that they did not intend to hurt the campaign. “But it wasn’t that, because if we really wanted to wage war on them, we would have called for a boycott, we would have spread it more widely which we didn’t…I didn’t think it was going to be newsworthy.”
