- Welcome to POV .
I'm Pete Schwaba, host of PBS Wisconsin's Director's Cut .
In the Philippines, the province of Palawan
is one of the most popular
and fastest-rising tourist destinations,
thanks to its tropical weather and stunning beauty.
But what the tourists might not know
is that there is a war taking place on this beautiful land.
A war between those depleting the rain forests
through illegal logging
and the land defenders risking their lives to stop them.
You'll see all of this amazing drama unfold firsthand
in tonight's film Delikado .
The film's three lead subjects, Bobby Chan, Tata, and Nieves
play David to a Goliath
which consists of corrupt government officials
and global corporations
who are destroying not only Palawan's beauty,
but its precious natural resources.
The group literally confiscates chainsaws
from those they catch in the act of trying to cut down trees.
The film's title, Delikado , actually means "danger"
and was chosen because director Karl Malakunas said
he would venture into the forests at night
with his lead actors.
They would whisper the word delikado
as they approached the loggers and heard their chainsaws.
The delikado is very real.
13 of these land defenders have been killed.
Malakunas was a reporter living in France.
He was about to write a story
about ecotourism in the Philippines until his contact,
an environmental activist for the story, was murdered.
Malakunas decided to go anyway,
but to investigate his friend's murder.
It was during his investigation that the director met Chan,
a local lawyer, and became captivated by his cause
and the fact that Chan had a tree outside his office windows
with chainsaws hanging from it,
just to let those destroying his beloved home know
that he and his group would not be intimidated.
Now, let's sit back and watch a true David versus Goliath story
as Bobby, Tata, and Nieves try to stop what they call
the last frontier from becoming the lost frontier.
Delikado starts now on PBS Wisconsin,
your home for independent film.