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KHAVN is a multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker, writer, composer, and pianist, internationally recognized as the father of Philippine digital filmmaking. Since 1994, he has directed over 50 features and 300 short films—works that have screened at major festivals including Berlinale, Venice, Rotterdam, Tokyo, and CPH:DOX, with retrospectives at IFFR, Pesaro, Oberhausen, and beyond. His acclaimed films include Mondomanila, Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (Best Picture, FAMAS & Urian Awards), Ruined Heart (lensed by Christopher Doyle), and Orphea (co-directed with Alexander Kluge). A multiple Palanca Award-winning author and prolific composer with over 40 albums, Khavn’s radical, genre-defying work spans cinema, literature, and music. He has served on juries at Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, Jeonju, Jihlava, and CPH:DOX, and exhibited at MoMA, Tate Modern, MAXXI, Guggenheim, and Museo Reina Sofia. Khavn’s films are known for their punk energy, poetic experimentation, and fierce engagement with Filipino realities—embracing the margins, challenging conventions, and celebrating the dynamism of life against all odds78. Described as “the enfant terrible of Philippine cinema” (Pesaro), “the Che Guevara of the Digital Revolution” (La Palma), and “the world’s most prolific major filmmaker” (Variety), Khavn continues to push the boundaries of global independent cinema.

ACHINETTE VILLAMOR is a Filipino producer, writer, and managing director of Kamias Overground, a Manila-based film production company, publishing house, and music label. She is best known for producing internationally acclaimed films such as Balangiga: Howling Wilderness, Mondomanila, Ruined Heart, Alipato, and National Anarchist: Lino Brocka. Her projects have screened at major festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Tokyo, and CPH:DOX, and she has presented works at NAFF-BiFan, Cinemart, Riviera Lab, and Paris Project. Villamor’s projects include co-productions with Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies and music album releases with talents like Khavn, Lav Diaz, and Roxlee. Her portfolio extends across fiction, documentary, experimental film, music, and literature, with credits in works such as Bamboo Dogs and Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) and the anthology Under The Storm: An Anthology Of Contemporary Philippine Poetry. Villamor is a FAMAS and Gawad Urian awardee, an Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominee, an alumna of Berlinale Talents, and the mother of five children.