A BONUS COURSE WORK : dalaginding

Last January 22, I watched a film showing of the different documentaries of iWitness. There should be three films but due to some problems, we (the audience and i) were not able to view the third film.
Moving on, the first documentary shown was about the fiesta in the Philippines - it's effects, and implications etc.
But what really interest me was the second documentary entitled 'DALAGINDING' made by Vicky Morales. The film was primarily about gays in the Philippines - they're hobbies, gimmicks, basically, their personality. The technical aspects of the film was good. The music really suited the scenes. What bothered or surprised me was the choice of subjects.the choice of the children and teens.
I know that dalaginding is suppose to mean any 'bakla' with ages ranging 9 up to 17 or so. But what did shove Ms. Vicky to get these 'artistas' sa dinami-dami ng 'dalaginding' sa Pinas?
There was this scene the I really like. It's about three children who at an early age already acknowledge themselves as 'girls'. Then the middle-aged (i mean, neither the youngest nor the oldest) boy/girl went to his province to confess about his 'katauhan' to his relatives. Accompanied by the other two, the kid summoned up his courage to face his relatives.
The 'touching' part was when the kid was gathering his courage little by little at the same time confessing bits by bits. Before he-slash-she can say it, he burst into tears and said 'mahal na mahal ko po kayo' instead. It was able to squeeze some tears in my eyes (and i don't know why). Then, he tried confessing again the next day, but this time, the youngest in their group blurted out 'BAKLA DAW PO SIYA'. The film institute uproar with laughter.

It's just nice to see two really different scenes in one documentary. Not to mention that the 'people' being documented on are kids, innocent and 'true'(by true, i mean, walang halong pagpapacute or kaplastikan or anything). I loved that documentary not because I'm PRO-gay/lesbian, but because you know that the scenes in that film were NOT scripted.