jasontanliwag

[jasontanliwag]

I'm Jason Tan Liwag, a film critic, curator, and lecturer based in Quezon City, Philippines.

My writing and curatorial practice explores the life cycle of moving images and film criticism in Southeast Asia, with a focus on state terror, memory, erasure, gender, and disability. My writing can be found in local publications such as CNN Philippines Life, Rappler, Inquirer Lifestyle, YoungSTAR, Vogue Philippines, and Rolling Stone Philippines, and international publications such as Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, Documentary Magazine, Screen Slate, Ultradogme, MARG1N Magazine, Senses of Cinema, and Sentient Art Film.

I am an alumnus of film criticism programmes in Rotterdam, Udine, Yamagata, and Manila and am the founder and lead coordinator of the QCinema Critics Lab—a training ground for emerging Filipino film critics. I am the first Filipino member of FIPRESCI and a three-time international voter for the Golden Globe Awards and the Dorian Awards.

Presently, I am head of short film programming at the QCinema International Film Festival and also a short film programmer for the Leeds International Film Festival, with a special focus on Southeast Asian works and queer-centered short films. Most recently, I became co-curator of the Philippine lineup for S-Express with Oggs Cruz and program coordinator for the iNDIEGENIUS project lab.

Outside of cinema, he is a part-time multimedia arts and film lecturer at the CIIT College of Arts and Technology and iACADEMY.

Email me at jasontanliwag@gmail.com.