Film Festivals, Lectures & Workshops

2025 · Keynote · Association for Curators and Programmers of Asian Cinemas, hosted by the Asian Film Archive and supported by Newcastle University, Singapore

Toward Southeast Asian Cinema as Archipelagic Cinema (PDF)

2025 · Paper presented at the 2025 Critical Islands Studies International Conference, Jeju National University

Badjao Revisited: Place, Difference, Identity in National Cinema

2024 · Lopez Museum and Archive, Power Plant Rockwell, Makati City

Telling Sensitive Stories to Resist Disinformation and Historical Distortion

2023 · International Conference on Film and Society: Content Creation, Control, and Choice in the Digital Age, Freedom Film Network, Kuala Lumpur

The Ghost of Becoming: Lao Cinema and Its Doubles

2023 · Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna

The Film Manifesto Is As Old As Cinema Itself

2023 · Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cinema

2023 · Ground Glass Film Festival, iAcademy

Is Cinema Dead?

2023 · Benilde Talks, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde

The Fascist Mind in Batch ’81

2023 · Symposium on the Cinema of Mike De Leon, University of the Philippines Diliman

Artists’ Moving Images & Resistance during the Duterte Administration

2022 · 24th Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference

Audiovisual Culture, Human Rights, and Activist Documentary Practice Under Duterte

2022 · SEASIA Biennial Conference, BRIN, Jakarta

Meshes for Maps: Topologies of Southeast Asian Cinema

2022 · Singapore International Film Festival Youth Critics Program

Truth-Telling and Activist Filmmaking amid the Illiberal Information Disorder

2022 · Keynote · International Southeast Asian Media Studies Conference

Collective action, individual decisions: political documentaries and activist media collectives (Conversation)

2022 · Taiwan International Documentary Festival

Philippine Documentary: A View from the post-COVID Information Disorder

2022 · Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference

Categories for a Topology of Southeast Asian Cinema

2021 · Singapore Management University

Documentary Practice & Activism during the Pandemic Lockdown in the Philippines

2021 · International Conference on Southeast Asia, Universiti Malaya

From National Cinema to Film Islands

2021 · International Southeast Asian Media Studies Association Conference

The Confessional Form in Philippine Popular Culture

2021 · Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila

Pop Culture and the Project of Decolonization

2021 · University of San Carlos, Cebu City

Rethinking Southeast Asian Cinema Studies (Conversation)

2020 · Film Department, BINUS University, Jakarta

“We Still Have to Close Our Eyes” and “Alunsina,” Conversations with John Torres and Kiri Dalena on the Documentary Form and Filmmaking Under Duterte

2020 · Daang Dokyu: A Festival of Philippine Documentaries, FilDocs, Inc.

On “El cuadro” and “La vaquilla” (Conversation)

2020 · PELíCULA Spanish Film Festival, Instituto Cervantes de Manila

Philippine Cinema, A Century Thus

2019 · Sine Cinema das Filipinas: Nos Cem Anos do Cinema Filipino Film Festival, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon

The Origins of The Contest, The Contest For Origins: The “Nation” in Early Film History, 1897-1932

2019 · Pelikula Lektura: Philippine Cinema Centennial Lecture Series

Mapping Mindanao Cinema

2019 · Philippine Studies Conference, SOAS, University of London

Regions Decentering National Cinema

2019 · Interseksiyon: Panitikan, Pelikula, at Wikang Filipino

Regional Filmmaking and Place-Making in the History of Philippine Cinema

2018 · Pelikultura: Calabarzon Film Festival, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna

Alternative Beginnings and Contested Futures: Tracing Rizal in Early Cinema

2018 · Bridging Worlds, Illumining the Archive: An International Conference in Honor of Professor Resil B. Mojares

Locating Cinematic Spaces in Tu Pug Imatuy

2018 · National Conference on Geographical Studies

Conceptualizing the Genesis of Cinema as Struggle

2018 · Philippine Studies Association National Conference, National Museum

Mapping “Independence” in Southeast Asian “Regional” Cinemas

2018 · ASEANNALE, Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Southeast Asian Regional Cinemas as Independent Cinema

2017 · Seasia Biennial Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Rizal and the Genesis of Filipino Film

2017 · Lopez Museum and Library, Benpres Building, Pasig City

Revisiting Lino Brocka and Jose Lacaba’s Orapronobis in Dark Times

2017 · Memory International Film Heritage Festival, Yangon

Considering Alternative Beginnings and Different Futures: Rizal and the End of National Cinema

2017 · SANDAAN Philippine Cinema Centennial Conference

Folklore, the Rise of the MMFF, and the Decline of Bakbakan

2017 · Sampaksaan sa K’wentong-Bayan, with the theme “Salaysayan: K’wentong-Bayan, Kaalamang-Bayan, University of the Philippines Diliman

Narratives, Places, and Futures: Southeast Asian Cinemas

2017 · Tingin ASEAN Film Festival, Shangri-la Mall, Mandaluyong City

A Genealogy of Philippine Film Realism

2016 · Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, University of Nottingham-Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

Locating Mike De Leon in Philippine Cinema

2016 · International Conference on Philippine Studies, Silliman University, Dumaguete

Adaptation Criticism of Screen Rizal as Metacriticism 1912-2012

2016 · Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs Symposium, University of the Philippines Diliman

Pinoy Telenovelas and Historical K-Dramas

2015 · Korean Cultural Festival, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology

Rural Landscape and the Formation of Philippine Cinema

2015 · Situations International Conference: Ethnic Minorities and Diasporas in the Asian Context, Yonsei University, Seoul

Reorienting the Real, Introducing the Horror: The Invention of New Lao Cinema

2015 · Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta

Variations on a Theme: Philippine and South Korean Extreme

2015 · Cultural Encounters: Asian Perspectives on Film, Literature and Society, University of Nottingham-Malaysia and Yonsei University, Kuala Lumpur

A Life Built on Shot: Rizal and Documentary

2015 · Digital Divide: International Conference on Emerging Trends in Film Practice, University of the Philippines Diliman

When/Where Is the End of National Cinema? Philippine Cinema at the Turn of the Century

2015 · Keynote · PASALE, Ateneo de Naga University Center for Culture and the Arts, Naga City, Bicol

Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History

2014 · Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Thai Film Archive, Salaya

Anxieties in Philippine Transnational Cinema

2014 · Philippine Studies Conference in Japan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Ang Pelikulang Rural sa Sineng Indie

2014 · Rehiyonal na Panitikan bilang Pambansang Panitikan, Writers’ Union of the Philippines (UMPIL) Conference

Brown-Skinned Virgin in Red Cheongsam: The Ghost as a Figure of Justice in Southeast Asian Cinema

2013 · Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia Workshop, Vietnamese Institute of Culture and Arts, Hanoi

The Politics of Naming a Movement: Independent Cinema According to Cinemalaya

2013 · European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of Lisbon

The Face of Rizal as Medium: Nation, Religion, and the Documentary Image

2013 · Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia Mid-term Conference, University of Göttingen

Spectacle/Archive: History and Form in the First Screen Rizal

2013 · Historiography and Nation since Pasyon and Revolution: Conference in Honor of Reynaldo C. Ileto, Ateneo de Manila University

Narrativizing the Archive: Three Case Studies from Southeast Asia: The Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia

2012 · Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, National Museum of Singapore

Manila by Night as Thirdspace

2012 · Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong

The Problem with Poverty Porn

2012 · Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival

The Philippine-American Contact, the Politics of Memory, and the End(s) of Cinematic Experimentation

2012 · Philippine Film History and Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Nicanor G. Tiongson, University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University

New Urban Realism in Philippine Cinema

2011 · University of Asia and the Pacific

Rizal at the Movies: Adaptation Criticism as Metacriticism

2011 · Rizal in the 21st Century: International Sesquicentennial Conference

Making Heroism Unlikely: On the Metafilm and Violence in Indie Cinema

2010 · Cinemalaya Congress, Cultural Center of the Philippines

“Himala: The Tragic Hero in the Discourse of Nation” and “Oro Plata Mata: The Macho Hero in the Discourse of Nation”

2010 · BRAVO! Celebrating the Filipino: A Film Festival, Filipinas Heritage Library, Cinema, Cebu City

The Fantasy-Adventure Film as Ethnoepic (2000-2007)

2010 · Asian Media Cooperation and Cultural Exchange: An International Academic and Cultural Exchange to Promote the Knowledge of Asian Culture

The City and the ‘Camera-Eye’: Intersections of the City Film, National Cinema and Visual Culture

2009 · UGAT Conference, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao

Ethical Questions for the New Realists in Philippine Cinema

2009 · Mukha ng Maralita sa Midya: A Symposium on Mass Media Ethics

Literature Thru Film, Film Thru Literature: Adaptation Criticism as Metacriticism

2009 · UP College of Mass Communication Faculty Colloquium

Ang Tanawin at Paysaheng Rural sa Bagong Sineng Indie

2008 · UGAT Conference, Holy Angel University, Angeles City, Pampanga

Courses and Workshops

Film 10. General Education. Sining Sine

Film 12. General Education. Sine Pinoy

Film 100. Introduction to Cinema

Film 102. Philippine Cinema

Film 103. World Cinema

Film 106. Southeast Asian Cinemas

Film 106. Chinese Cinemas

Film 130. Film Genres

Film 171. Film Theory and Criticism

Film 175. Film and Literature

Film 196. The Cinema of Kidlat Tahimik

Film 196. Film Programming

Film 199. Research in Film

Film 201. Seminar in Film Studies

Film 270. Film Theory

Comm 130. Communication and Media Theory

Media 210. Media Theory

Global Studies 197. Contemporary Korean Society

Workshop: Film Experience Clinic / Sining ng Panonood

Workshop: Writing About Film

Workshop: Media and Information Literacy

Selected Engagements

Jury and Selection Work

Presentations, Lectures, and Conversations

Courses and Workshops