The rights to the PJ Raval documentary Who We Become have been acquired by Array Releasing, the distribution branch of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning narrative transformation group Array. This includes the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland. The movie will premiere on Netflix just on Friday, December 1.
Who We Become, which had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival earlier this year, centres on three young Filipino women who are adjusting to a pandemic while also forming unanticipated relationships with their families. learning about oneself in the process. Cecilia R. Mejia (Lingua Franca) is the producer of the self-documented time capsule for uncertain times, which captures the strong tie between Filipino family and community. Erwin Falcon and Samantha Renshi Skinner serve as co-producers, and executive producer Theresa Navarro.
President of Array Tilane Jones stated, “ARRAY is proud to present this new work by a director we have long appreciated.” “PJ Raval offers an important and notable assessment on themes that are of utmost significance by charting both effect and access in the middle of two significant global events.”
Through the perspectives of LGBT and oppressed people, queer first-generation Filipinx-American filmmaker Raval explores social justice themes in his work. Before You Know It, Trinidad, and Call Her Ganda are some of his previous features. He is a member of the PGA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Notable institutions including the Guggenheim Foundation, Bertha Foundation, Arcus Foundation, Sundance, and others have disseminated or otherwise sponsored his body of work.
Among them are the Ford Foundation, PBS, Firelight Media, Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance, and the Centre for Asian-American Media.
Geoff Lee of Ramo Law negotiated the acquisition on behalf of the movie, while Gordon Bobb of Del Shaw Moonves represented Array Releasing.
