Abakada... Ina is a 2001 Filipino drama movie, directed by Eddie Garcia and written by Shaira Mella Salvador,[1][2] starring Lorna Tolentino, Albert Martinez, and Nida Blanca.
[3] The story revolves around an illiterate mother named Estella (Lorna Tolentino) who married a man Daniel (Albert Martinez), who had 3 beautiful daughters.
Since Estella stopped studying, she had been arguing with her mother-in-law Matilda (Nida Blanca).
[1] The Literary Coordinating Council (LCC) of the Department of Education endorsed the movie to the National Literacy Awards.
Notably, a survey of that year by the National Statistics Office (NSO), stated that 2.8 Million Filipinos are not educated or illiterate while 7.4 Million are functionally literate or can only understand by small amount.