The film faculty is enthusiastic about the distinguished filmmaker Raymond Red to come in as film lecturer at the UP Film Institute for this semester 2017.

We are delighted to announce that the renowned filmmaker, Raymond Red, will be joining our UPFI faculty as a film lecturer in January 2017. He will be teaching Directing course in the Institute.

Raymond Red is one of the pioneers of modern Filipino independent and alternative cinema. Having a background in Fine Arts and photography, he began by making numerous experimental and narrative super-8mm and 16mm short films in the 1980s. His generation was inspired by the tumultuous era  of the Philippines under martial rule in the ’70s, from which true alternative and independent filmmaking emerged.  Red immediately gained recognition by winning awards and citations, both locally and at the international film festivals scene. He had then, at an early age, begun to inspire a new generation of independent filmmakers.  He has since become a regular lecturer and instructor in various film workshops and in film, fine arts, and mass communications college programs, mentoring early on quite a number of the prominent Filipino independent filmmakers of today.” (http://www.raymondred.com)

Raymond Red holds the distinction of being the only Filipino to win the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 for his short film, “Anino”.  He will join the ranks of incredibly talented film educators and practitioners, to engage and inform our students and community in film and beyond.

We are confident that Mr. Red will be an outstanding addition to the UP Film Institute, and we hope that you will join us in welcoming him to our community.