Documentary - "Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea"

Film director Baby Ruth Villarama, and film producer Chuck Gutierrez, will be available for Q&A after the documentary screening.

PLEASE NOTE: There is actually NO RESERVING OF SEATS for this film showing, HOWEVER, please click on "RESERVE A SPOT" and enter your number of seats for you and/or your party, so that the San Francisico Public Library can know in advance how many viewing rooms to open up. SEATS WILL THEN BE ON FIRST-COME, FIRST-TAKE BASIS.

At the KORET AUDITORIUM, San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, California 94102, on Sunday, January 11, 2026, 2-5 PM.

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A documentary by director Baby Ruth Villarama on the plight of Filipino fishermen and Coast Guard/Navy personnel in the contested South China Sea/West Philippine Sea.

• Depicts their daily risks, their cooperation with local communities, civil society, and government efforts to deliver supplies amid China’s obstruction, bullying, and aggression.

• Removed from the 2025 Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival in Quezon City for its subject matter.

• Premiered at the DocEdge Festival in Auckland, New Zealand on June 30, 2025 despite censorship attempts by the People’s Republic of China.

This film-showing is sponsored by Akbayan North America in collaboration with the Filipino-American Center of the San Francisco Public Library, and in co-sponsorship with Filipino-American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity.

The documentary, "Food Delivery," captures the quiet heroism, personal sacrifice, and unwavering duty of a remarkable alliance of fishermen, Philippine Coast Guard, and Navy personnel, who risk their lives together to deliver food and aid, and to defend their waters and way of life, from daily dangerous and violent harassment at sea by the China Coast Guard near Scarborough Shoal. Through the harrowing journey of fisherman Arnel Satam, pursued by the China Coast Guard near Scarborough Shoal, the film unveils the daily dangers faced at sea.

Rising tensions to assert Philippine maritime entitlements and rights in waters of the West Philippine Sea, as upheld on July 12, 2016 by the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), form the film's backdrop.

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