
The 100-minute film, “Imelda”, looks at the colourful life of the former beauty queen, now 75, and her two decades at her husband’s side until he was toppled by huge protests in 1986. Imelda’s extravagant lifestyle and an enormous shoe collection amassed during her husband’s iron-fisted rule helped to make her probably the world’s most famous Filipina.
Diaz, a niece of a former official in the state agency recovering the estimated $5 billion to $10 billion plundered by the Marcoses, had expressed hope that young Filipinos would be able to watch the documentary and make up their own minds.