Currently teaching a special topics course about the limits of documentary filmmaking.
Notable Filipino films made by women
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Notable films by women filmmaker
With features: Adjani Arumpac (“War Is A Tender Thing,” “Nanay Mameng”) Alyx Arumpac (“Aswang”) Antoinette…
What I Watched in 2025
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List is a mix of first watches and rewatches.
Missing: - just in case (the most important is to get…
QCinema International Film Festival 2024 — Short and mid-length works
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1-6: QCShorts International A — Filipino shorts 7-12: QCShorts International B — Southeast Asian shorts 13-18: Shorts Expo 19: Mid-length…
Sundance 2023
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Queer films for Valentine's Day
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Sundance Film Festival 2022
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Here's the list of films I'll be covering for 2022 Sundance Film Festival on behalf of Rappler.
An Introduction to Martika Ramirez Escobar
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Martika Ramirez Escobar is the Filipino writer-director behind the Sundance 2022 film "Leonor Will Never Die".
I asked her for…
Highest-grossing Philippine Films
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Understanding democracy through Filipino cinema
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For the longest time, cinema has been used to explore the concept and experience of democracy in the Philippines. From…
IFFR - Taiki Sakpisit (The Edge of Daybreak)
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A list of films that, in some ways, informed Taiki Sakpisit's "The Edge of Daybreak".