When a documentary tells the truth, and they try to erase it—ask why.
This isn’t just about a film. It’s about sovereignty. It's about every Filipino voice being silenced when the narrative is stolen.
📽 “Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea” was pulled from screens days before premiere. Then attacked by CGTN. They say it’s fiction. We call it frontline truth. They call our fishermen “props.” We call them defenders.
To silence this story… is to let them win the war of words. 🇵🇭 Don’t let them. 🔗 Watch it. 📢 Share it. 🛡 Defend it.
00:00What happens when a film tells the truth and they try to silence it before it's even seen?
00:05Why was a story about fishermen and sovereignty pulled from our own screens?
00:10Just days before the premiere, the Filipino public asked a simple question.
00:14Why are we not allowed to watch our own story?
00:17If a documentary threatens power, maybe it's not just a film, maybe it's a mirror.
00:22In March 2025, the documentary Food Delivery, fresh from the West Philippine Sea, was unexpectedly withdrawn from a local film festival.
00:33The reason? External pressures, according to organizers.
00:38Days later, Chinese state media CGTN launched an attack, dismissing the film as fiction and calling Filipino fishermen political props.
00:48Let's be clear, CGTN has long served as the front deck of China's propaganda fleet.
00:54Filipinos must not mistake their polished anchors for truth.
00:58But what CGTN calls drama, we call documentation.
01:02This film tells the story of our frontliners at sea, fishermen, Coast Guard, and Navy personnel who sail into danger, not for spectacle, but for survival, for sovereignty.
01:14Food delivery doesn't distort, it distills, the sacrifices, the struggles, the sovereignty we defend without applause.
01:24They say it's emotional.
01:26Yes, because the sea has taken much.
01:29But our resolve remains anchored in international law.
01:32In the 2016 arbitral victory the world recognized, but some refused to accept.
01:38This isn't a tale, it's a testimony, and to silence it is to silence every Filipino who continues to sail, guard, and give, even when the world looks away.
01:50If this film never reaches our screens, China doesn't just silence a documentary, it wins the narrative, and we Filipinos lose our voice on our own waters.
02:00Letting this story go quiet means letting China speak louder than us, again.
02:05Don't let them win the story.
02:08Watch it, share it, defend it.
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