King Palisoc on How Song of the Fireflies Started | Esquire Philippines - video Dailymotion

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Esquire Philippines sat down with King Palisoc, director of award-winning "Song of the Fireflies," a film about the world-famous Loboc Children's Choir. It opens nationwide on June 25. #EsquirePHVideo

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00:00It started with the producers, Kul Tertain, Musikat, Celeste Legazpi, Gurley Rodis, and Rachel Alejandro, producers of Ang Larawan.

00:09It was around the time that they were doing screenings of Ang Larawan in different provinces.

00:18And then when they had a screening of Ang Larawan in Bohol, the Lobok Children's Choir performed, and then they saw them.

00:27And then they were moved by the performance.

00:31They also discovered how the choir started and how it was founded by a public school teacher named Alma Taldo.

00:39And they inspired their story.

00:41It was about this group of kids who were formed by a public school teacher who had no classical back training on choir performance.

00:57All because she believed that these kids deserve the chance to perform and share their music.

01:08After that, they tapped me and Sarge to develop the story and to sort of dig deeper to the origin of the choir.

01:18It really started with that.

01:20The idea that the producers wanted to tell the story of this small town choir and how they made it big globally.

King Palisoc on How Song of the Fireflies Started | Esquire Philippines

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