While the film was inspired by true events, ORO depicts the transition of one community's economic and political systems. Economically, from the people's communal ownership of the natural resources, it turned into capitalism where the people owned only their labor. Politically, from a benevolent feudalistic leadership of Kapitana it turned into a cruel fascist regime of the bigger politicians. While the real story was "killed" in media, the film was censored too when it was pulled out of the theaters. Guns and goons have many faces but the GOLD in Oro prevails. Censorship haunts all of us and our society yet this MASTERPIECE continues to live on to immortalize the plea of the murdered four small-scale miners for justice. MMFF 2016 Best Actress Irma Adlawan with the MMFF 2016 Best Ensemble Cast were truly deserving of the laurels. Writer and Director Alvin Yapan and Executive Producer Shandii Bacolod were excellent too as this creation heals a community that has been deprived of fairness and equal opportunities.