Bulosan in the Heart of America

"Interviews, reenactments, and animation recount Philippine migrant history beginning with the "Manong Generation," with Carlos Bulosan as a key figure and lens."

A short documentary that merges interviews, re-enactments, and animation, to examine the tumultuous chapter of Philippine migrant history beginning with the ‘Manong Generation’ – the first migrant labor in the dawn of the 20th century – and labor activism through the life and writings of Carlos Bulosan, the man who wrote the novel America is in the Heart.