Celebrities, volunteers, and sectoral representatives led the “Liwanag sa Dilim” music video for presidential bet Vice President Leni Robredo.
The video was released on Facebook on Sunday, April 17, and posted on the official pages of Rivermaya, the song’s original performer, and on various celebrities and personalities' Twitter profiles, including those of Angel Locsin and Piolo Pascual.
Rivermaya and Yeng Constantino performed the hit song on a rooftop while video clips of volunteers—bikers, k-pop stans, LGBTQIA+, persons with disabilities, youth, senior citizens, TODA, food service crew, chefs, muslims, tourism workers, teachers, mothers, skaters, doctors, dancers and theater artists, construction workers, cheerleaders, jeepney drivers, indigenous people, and Chinese-Filipino—were shown.
Robredo’s eldest daughter, Aika, also appeared in the video, as well as Elmer Cordero, one of the six public utility drivers who were jailed for protesting the transport stoppage during the lockdown.
Sherwin Descalso Abdon, the motorcycle rider and former supporter of ex-Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who gave Robredo a ride to the venue of the Cavite grand rally in General Trias, and other volunteer groups were also featured in the video directed by award-winning film director Irene Villamor.
Also featured was Sherwin’s wife, Kristine.
“Naniniwala ako na mas marami pa ring bagay ang nagbubuklod sa atin kaysa sa ating pagkakaiba (I believe that there are more things that connect us than our differences),” Pascual, who came out with his endorsement of Robredo last week, said in the video.
Explaining the similar vibe to the famous American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Villamor admitted that the group served as one of their inspirations in making the music video.
“Yes, for those who said Thirty Seconds to Mars vibe siya, yes isa nga iyon sa mga naging inspiration for this music video,” Villamor explained.
She thanked the volunteers of Film Workers for Leni and other sectors who made the music video possible.
The hashtag #LeniLiwanagSaDilim is currently trending on Twitter with more than 14,000 tweets.
Rivermaya’s post has garnered 14,000 views, with more than 5,600 shares and more than 10,000 reactions.
Meanwhile, Sumilao farmers have reached Iriga City in Camarines Sur and are currently on their way to Naga City to continue their march in support of Robredo’s presidential bid.
The march was entitled “Lakad ng mga Pamilyang Magsasaka Laban sa Gutom at Kahirapan (Walk of Farmers’ Families against Hunger and Poverty).”
The farmers marched in 2007 from Sumilao, Bukidnon to Malacañang to fight for their ancestral domain.
Robredo was then part of the volunteer lawyer group Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal (SALIGAN). She and her husband, the late former Interior secretary and Naga Mayor Jesse Robredo, welcomed the farmers and even prepared a feast for them in Naga City.
The late mayor and then Local Governments secretary also signed a resolution of support for the Sumilao farmers as advocated by his wife.
The farmers are aiming to reach Manila on the first week of May.