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"Song of the Fireflies" is inspired by the story of the Loboc Children's Choir. Director King Palisoc talks about their experience in working with these young performers. #EsquirePHVideo

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00:00Actually, in the choir, that's what we really wanted to include in the film, was to have the Lobok Children's Choir as part of the cast.

00:11Of course, the challenges are that they weren't experienced having cameras to film up close and stuff.

00:20In order to train them, we had to have some workshops before filming.

00:27We had our acting coach, Bombi Plata, facilitate the workshop.

00:33Just really expose them to the skill set of acting and performing.

00:41And actually, it was so hard because the kids were really natural.

00:48I think when you're an actor, it really helps when you have an innate generosity that you've given on screen.

00:58The kids were able to do that naturally.

01:02They weren't very open to laughing or crying or doing some lines and making jokes and performing.

01:14And that's the blessing that we got.

01:16Apart, of course, from having a great cast,

01:20we were very sorry that the kids were able to give the right level of performance that was needed for the film.

01:30We were already able to show you more.

01:34I haven't seen it after doing something.

01:36We were not done yet because we had the same idea for the film.

01:39The film was done once again.

01:40I think we were able to get a lot of work.

01:42I didn't get into a film.

01:44I'm confused by the film.

01:46I just noticed if I could get the movie back,

01:49it was the first film.

01:51The film was moved on a bit.

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