Finding Nellie 2025

Directed by Alexandra Lenore Ashworth · Documentary · 40 min

Curiosity leads to discovery.

Finding Nellie: Documenting Local History follows archaeologist Ellie De Castro’s two-year search to uncover a 71-year old mystery behind Nellie E. Brown Elementary School, a public school in Olongapo City. What began as a simple question became a transpacific historical investigation spanning public and private archives, cemeteries, military records, oral histories, and community memories in the Philippines and abroad.