Finding Nellie (2025)

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.

• Release Date: 2025-09-04
• Runtime: 0h 40min
• Director: Alexandra Lenore Ashworth