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Where you are

Level 0 · Orientation0 / 3

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Level 1 · History0 / 8

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Level 2 · Culture and Systems0 / 7

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Level 3 · Philippine Cinema0 / 7

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Level 4 · Hope and the Playbook0 / 6

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The five gates

A badge lights up when every lesson in its level is marked complete. The line underneath it is that level’s gate, which is the thing you should actually be able to do, and it is not something a checkbox can prove. The full brief and rubric for each one is on the practice page.

🧭L0 · OrientedSay the nine eras from memory, and hand over a sealed answer sheet you would be embarrassed to publish today

📜L1 · GenealogistWalk the chain from 1594 to 2025 out loud, with a source for every link, and name the one link you cannot yet defend

🎙️L2 · InterviewerHand someone the bank and have them run six questions at you without you needing to explain a single term

🎞️L3 · Industry readerPitch the cinema act in five minutes, from the treatment, without defending a single number you cannot source

📄L4 · Case-makerRead the memo to someone who thinks the industry is beyond help, and have them argue with the evidence instead of with you

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The lessons

Level 0 · Orientation

Three lessons. Makes the shame speakable, and installs the evidence discipline the rest of the course runs on.

• 0.1 · Start where the shame is
• 0.2 · How we will know what is true
• 0.3 · The whole board

Capstone: the sealed answer sheet.

Level 1 · History

Eight lessons. Relocates the anger from people to design.

• 1.1 · Before anyone called it the Philippines
• 1.2 · The office that paid itself
• 1.3 · What Filipinos built
• 1.4 · Elections that made landlords stronger
• 1.5 · Ruin, and the pardon
• 1.6 · Two parties, one class
• 1.7 · When the state became the looter
• 1.8 · Four days, and the same families

Capstone: the corruption genealogy, as a sourced timeline.

Level 2 · Culture and Systems

Seven lessons. Returns respect to the people, including you.

• 2.1 · No line where you end
• 2.2 · One of us, or not
• 2.3 · Why a decent person sells a vote
• 2.4 · The lazy Filipino story
• 2.5 · The reflex underneath
• 2.6 · What is actually strong here
• 2.7 · Can a country change?

Capstone: the interview question bank.

Level 3 · Philippine Cinema

Seven lessons. Turns understanding into a target.

• 3.1 · The movies got here first
• 3.2 · A cinema that lost its childhood
• 3.3 · When film workers had employers
• 3.4 · The golden age a dictatorship paid for
• 3.5 · Freedom came, the audience did not
• 3.6 · Cannes without a country watching
• 3.7 · The industry you are walking into

Capstone: the treatment beat.

Level 4 · Hope and the Playbook

Six lessons. Turns the target into a decision.

• 4.1 · In 1960 the Filipino was richer
• 4.2 · How Korea’s cinema got built
• 4.3 · Five countries, five answers
• 4.4 · It has already worked here
• 4.5 · What a community can do
• 4.6 · Why you, and why this

Capstone: the serving thesis memo, and the sealed file from 0.1 gets opened.