By Jered Mabaquiao I’d been following the production of Forgotten Island since I was working on my dissertation through the early 2020s. I was excited, maybe overly so, to see a major animated film build its world around Filipino culture, folklore, and narrative mythologies. I continue to be excited about where Filipino culture is going. What’s interesting to me, though, is how this new representational crux immediately raises another question about who exactly this film is f