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Based on true events, “Paalam, Soledad” follows the struggles of Sister Soledad with her faith and her principles amidst the realities of Santa Clara, a small town ruled by closed minds, false hopes and repressed sexuality. [YouTube’s block has been resolved; this video is now viewable.]
Scene Selection
Group song welcoming people to Santa Clara (3:12)
First Act: Baptism (11:28)
Priest sings about sacrifice and the original sin (22:19)
Sister Soledad sings about the morality of changing and loving our bodies (24:50)
Second Act: Marriage (31:22)
Four women confront Sister Soledad about how society unfairly blames women (40:08)
Third Act: Funeral (46:49)
A happy, naughty song about the IUD (47:52)
Priest and mayor sing about their mutually beneficial partnership (1:05:05)
Finale: people sing about their hopes for Santa Clara (1:16:11)
Credits (1:20:24)
Impressive production value, catchy song numbers, witty dialogue… 2 thumbs up!
Funny, entertaining, and educational. Gary Lim's comic acting is fun to watch
Thanks for sharing, hope this video goes viral
The playwright is Rody Vera writing as Dorothy Enriquez. This was done 4 years ago, but the themes are as pressing now as then. The priest and mayor's song should give FF secularists a good laugh 🙂 so check it out first if you want a preview of the play http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detai…
Its now blocked from Youtube:
"This video contains content from SME and EMI, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
but this is an all-original production right? methinks some internet troll's trying to shut you down by falsely reporting the video as copyright infringement.
Yes, this is an all-original production. Youtube's copyright system is software driven and it kicked in a few hours after I uploaded this one. I contested their software's claim immediately as a mistake, misidentification. They gave me a "Dispute Status: Submitted", but not much clue on how to proceed. Which means I have to dig into their procedures further 🙁
This article might help:
http://fairusetube.org/guide-to-youtube-removals
it says you could actually sue someone who maliciously posted a fraudulent take-down notice:
"The DMCA requires copyright owners to certify that they have a "good faith belief" that the material in question is infringing when filing a DMCA takedown notice. If a copyright owner files a takedown notice against a video that is clearly fair use or otherwise obviously non-infringing, they could be liable for fraudulent misrepresentation of the video's copyright status under the DMCA. "
I read the link you posted, and our video was indeed flagged by Youtube's Content ID match. I did their Step 3 (Disputing a Content ID match) two days ago, which probably explains why I had a window yesterday ("Your video should then be automatically restored almost immediately" says fairusetube.org). But I'm confused with the block in place now.
What I did this morning is to file a Copyright Counter Notification with Youtube here http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/request… This site says we have 10 business days to get a response: https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/… "When you send a counter-notice to YouTube, you leave the copyright owner with two choices — either allow the video to be restored after 10 business days, or sue you to keep it down (the copyright owner could contact you and ask you do withdraw your counter-notice before suing, but is not required to do so)."