Director
RIFF 2026 · PROGRAM 03
Bridging Our Stories
Rafael Bitanga
THE STORY
When the last Filipino community center in Ketchikan, Alaska, becomes just a memory, a 50-year-old Filipina who spent her life resisting her heritage travels to the Philippines to rediscover her roots, preserving her community’s disappearing culture, and teaching indigenous Filipino dances.
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