Minikino Film Week, Bali, 2026.
Patrick F. Campos is a film scholar, writer, curator, and professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI). He previously served as the institute’s Director and as Coordinator of its Theater and Extension Division, which operates the UPFI Film Center.
His research and curatorial work explore Philippine and Asian cinemas through film history, geography, archives, and cultural memory. He examines the relations between politics and aesthetics and how films and their circulation shape understandings of nations and regions.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in Film and Audiovisual Communication and master’s degree in Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and his doctorate at the University of Westminster.
He writes and edits books, journals, and articles on media and cinema. His publications include The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century (2016), Scenes Reclaimed: CCP 50 × Cinemalaya 15 (2021; co-author and editor), Mike De Leon’s Last Look Back (2022; editor), and the Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas (2026; co-editor and contributor). He is editor-in-chief of Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image (2019–present), co-editor of the Communication and Media Book Series published by the University of the Philippines Press, and a member of the editorial board of Brill’s Asian Cinema and Screen series. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Humanities Diliman (2017–2020).
His curatorial practice approaches Asia through its islands, inlands, borderlands, and routes of movement, bringing films into relation to rethink the region’s cinematic geographies. His programs attend to histories of displacement and resistance, explore solidarities across differences, and consider how films can make overlooked places and experiences visible. His projects include Cinematic Counter-Cartographies of Southeast Asia, Reframe: INLAND, ISLAND, Worlds We Are: Southeast Asian Moving Image Work, and Lumad.
He programmed the Tingin Southeast Asian Film Festival, serves as a community curator for Cinemata, and periodically co-organizes the itinerant biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference. These activities connect his scholarship with spaces for screening, discussion, and exchange among filmmakers, researchers, critics, and audiences.
He has programmed, curated, served on juries, or participated in selection committees for the Singapore International Film Festival, Kolkata International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Madani International Film Festival, QCinema International Film Festival, Jogja Asian Film Festival, Jakarta Film Week, Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas, Image Forum Festival, and Minikino Film Week. His engagements also include Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, Festival Film Dokumenter, Cinema One Originals, SeaShorts Film Festival, and Cinema Rehiyon, among others.
He has worked with institutions and organizations including the Asian Film Archive, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Film Development Council of the Philippines, Open University Malaysia, BINUS University, ABS-CBN, Association for Curators and Programmers of Asian Cinemas, and Asian Film Alliance Network. He has also participated in the revitalized Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards and the Gawad Urian of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino.
He is a member of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), and an advocate of media literacy education in the Philippines.