The Asian Conference on Film & Documentary 2015

The Asian Conference on Film & Documentary 2015

The Asian Conference on Film & Documentary 2015

This study is about the lives of the families of Filipino journalists is Quezon Province
who died in line of duty most especially featuring the life of the family of Bert
“Fausto” Sison. This study aimed to feature the lives of the families of Bert Sison as
well as the families of the other victims of media killings in the province, their life
before and after the incident of killing of their relative happened. This also sought to
determine in their different aspects of living was affected by the incident. This study
is descriptive and pure qualitative. Upon the conduct of the study, the researcher
found out that the families of these victims are greatly affected in different aspects
including their economical, psychological, social, and security aspect, their lives
changed together with the sudden loss of their relative. Also, traumatic experience
marks in their life. The researcher concluded that media killings or the incident of
killing to their relative affects the family most especially the spouse, children and
even siblings.

Dyanara S. Corachea