Like it or not? Whatever critics say, Malacañang apparently approved of Brillante Mendoza’s direction of Monday’s SONA
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Brillante Mendoza may be praised all the way to Cannes for his award-winning indie films such as Kinatay, Thy Womb, and Ma’ Rosa, but not so on his direction of President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday where online criticisms seemed to like his way of directing.