Benjamin Abadilla’s Story

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Benjamin Abadilla’s Story
NR 9 minWe Drank Our Tears Collection PosterPart of We Drank Our Tears Collection
Follows Benjamin Abadilla as he is separated from his family during the battles and hides out in the jungle tries to find them.
StarringDylan SantosAysia Adele Duenas SantosKalea Borja
DirectorGalvin Deleon Guerrero

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Original Language:English

We Drank Our Tears Collection

All films in the series are adapted from “We Drank Our Tears,” a 2004 oral history of the civilian experience of World War II battles on Saipan and Tinian, published by Pacific STAR Young Writers Foundation. In 1944, some of the final battles of World War II were waged on the Pacific islands of Saipan and Tinian. 933 indigenous Chamorro and Refaluwasch civilians did not survive the battles. The book and the film series tell some of those stories.