OFF WORLD (The Documentary - Day 1)

Off World is an ethereal, occasionally disturbing portrait of one of The Philippines most notorious slums.

Though fictional, Off World plays like a documentary, following a young Toronto man named Lucky, whose life is utterly transformed during a journey to his birthplace of Smokey Mountain.

Once known as the Kingdom of Tondo, Smokey Mountain is now one of the most densely populated urban landscapes in the Philippines; a vast slum surrounding a mountain of garbage 12 storeys high, named for the methane gases that leak continuously from refuse accumulated over the course of more than half a century.

http://theoffworld.com

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Film & Animation

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• Off World
• Mateo Guez
• Byron Kent Wong
• Philippines
• Toronto
• Lucky
• film
• journey
• trailer
• Tongo
• children
• Smokey Mountain