Kumeta, 52, said he repeatedly asked himself, “what do I really want to shoot” and “what kind of film should I make,” when he recorded more than 200 hours of footage in the Manila slums.

In the slums of Manila, Kiwi nurse Jessa Pontevedra goes from shack to shack, using a new tool to fight tuberculosis. Nicholas Jones and Mike Scott went with her. It’s often necessary to crouch ...

eating and selling pagpag is a way of life in slums like Payatas Morning traffic rattles through the slum district of Payatas in Quezon City, just north of Metro Manila. It is 9am but over 30 ...