The UP Film Institute welcomes Prof. Patrick F. Campos as its new Director as well as Profs. Yason Banal and Nick Deocampo as Film, Theater and Extension Services Coordinator and Academic Programs & Research Coordinator, respectively. They succeed Profs. Sari Dalena, Ed Lejano, and Melissa dela Merced, who have ably and fruitfully served the institute in the last three years.

Prof. Campos is a film scholar, critic, and curator and a media literacy advocate. He is concurrently the director of the Office of Research and Publication of the UP College of Mass Communication and a member of the cinema committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino. He serves as the editor of two leading Philippine academic journals, Humanities Diliman and Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society, and is author of The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century and other books and essays on media and cinema in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Prof. Banal is a prolific artist whose conceptual and critical practice traverse forms and disciplines, having been exhibited widely including the Tate, Frieze Art Fair, IFA Berlin, Yerba Buena, Vargas Museum, Christie’s, Singapore Biennale and Shanghai Biennale. He has curated video exhibitions for Osage Art Foundation, Andy Warhol Museum and the Asia Pacific Triennial, while his own video works have been screened at Gertrude Contemporary, Center for Contemporary Art and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art among others. Recent exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Daegu Art Factory and currently at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Prof. Deocampo is a documentary filmmaker, historian, and curator. His films include Oliver, The Sex Warriors and the Samurai, and Private Wars as well as a series of film educational documentaries. He is completing a five-volume history of Philippine cinema, of which three have been published, namely Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema, and Eiga: Cinema in the Philippines during World War II. He recently curated the exhibit, Hidden Cinema: The Virtual Experience of Philippine Cinema’s Centenary, at the Ayala Museum.