
Jason Tan Liwag
@jaseybel
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Scientist, critic, and educator. Programmer at @QCinemaPH & @leedsfilmfest. Founder of the QCinema Critics Lab. Voter: @fipresci @goldenglobes & @dorianawards
Quezon City, Philippines
Joined March 2011
For @vogueph, I profiled SINNERS director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw. We discuss her beginnings in independent film, her long-term collaborations with Ryan Coogler and Gia Coppola, and how she is expanding the audience’s vision through cinematography. Link in bio.
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A student who didn't watch the film I screened in class recited using an AI-generated answer. We are so cooked.
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i know this may be news to some but you can criticize politicians that you support. you're supposed to actually. thats how the relationship is supposed to work. you're not supposed to be a stan. *they* work for *you*
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a fervent, sincere wish for filipino writers and artists, that our aspirations for our work be bigger and deeper than what the market and capital allow us to imagine, what the seduction of the status quo corners us into dreaming. there is always something else.
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Most Filipinos expressed anger and fear due to the multibillion-peso corruption scandal involving the flood control project, Octa Research’s latest survey showed. READ MORE: https://t.co/U81WbtbjX4
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the n+1 job listing is for the same salary the ED is getting (pull the 990!). if you want small orgs to pay people better, support them. i guarantee paying their people better is the main thing they want to do with that money. it's tough to make an honest, supporter-funded living
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EXCLUSIVE: “Bloom Where You Are Planted” director Noni Abao talks about how Cagayan Valley changed his life and why land rights are deeply tied in the region https://t.co/mxiILJwiuu
rollingstonephilippines.com
'Bloom Where You Are Planted' is the first documentary to ever win Cinemalaya. Director Noni Abao talks about Cagayan Valley, justice for activists, and Duterte
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Wala talagang kwentang maging magaling at mabait kung hindi ka payat at pogi, ano?
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This year's Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival faced an uphill battle with funding but still managed to take place & increase box office revenue. @jaseybel has the full story, including this year's award winners and next year's grantees. https://t.co/ZfJkIpwwOb
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Noni Abao’s land rights documentary Bloom Where You Are Planted was awarded Best Film in the feature length category.
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Wrote about @cinemalayaoffcl for Streamlined.
This year's Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival faced an uphill battle with funding but still managed to take place & increase box office revenue. @jaseybel has the full story, including this year's award winners and next year's grantees. https://t.co/ZfJkIpwwOb
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‘Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist & PayPal co-founder, was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programmes & women being
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
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i cannot stress enough that no politician, past or present, who is complicit in genocide should ever enjoy any peace, positive publicity, or prosperity for the rest of their lives
I cannot stress enough how pointless & performative it is to be doing this at the EX- VICE President’s book tour.
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What we need are science-based decision-making and concrete disaster preparedness measures, not class suspensions that simply evade more significant concerns.
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Praying for the victims of the recent quakes. 🙏 Walong lugar na sa Pilipinas ang nilindol nitong mga nagdaang linggo, kabilang ang Cebu at Davao Oriental na ilang beses pang nakaranas ng pagyanig. Paglilinaw naman ng Phivolcs, walang koneksyon sa isa't isa ang magkakasunod
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A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened
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LOOK: Multisectoral groups hold a mobilization outside the House of Representatives to condemn the anomalies of the 2026 General Appropriations Bill, as the third and final budget hearing at the House commences. The groups call for the reallocation of funds for “pork barrel
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full quote because people are being weird - she basically says she wont push for more money because she hates the feeling of owing people, so she’ll make her films within whatever companies are comfortable giving her
Chloé Zhao doesn't believe that her "vision" as a director "should make people lose money." “I try really hard to get financiers or studios to say, how much are you comfortable giving me so that you can survive as a company, please ... Limitations, I promise, are your best
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FILMMAKERS: 🗣️🗣️🗣️“The biggest decision a filmmaker makes after they decide what story they want to tell is what budget level you’re going to tell it at because that will really determine the amount of control you have.” -Atom Egoyan
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