A Thousand Cuts


A Thousand Cuts is a 2020 Filipino-American documentary film about Maria Ressa, the founder of the online news site Rappler, and the conflicts between the press and the Philippine government under President Rodrigo Duterte. The film premiered on January 25, 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival, and was released by the American investigative journalism program Frontline for a limited time on YouTube, free of charge and exclusively for Philippine users. The documentary is planned to be theatrically released in the United States in August 2020, and broadcast as an episode of Frontline in November.