Imelda Marcos, widow of Ferdinand Marcos the former president of The Philippines, is engraved in everyone’s memory as the woman with the many shoes.  Award-winning filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (2018, Generation Wealth, 2012, Queen of Versailles) follows this eccentric woman as she confidently rewrites her family’s history of corruption, replacing it with a narrative of a matriarch’s love of her country. The Kingmaker: Imelda Marcos revisits the extravagance of this controversial figure, whilst exposing the disturbing legacy of the Marcos regime, right up to the current political climate in The Philippines.

In an age where fake news manipulates elections, Imelda’s comeback story serves as a timely dark fairytale.