Nick DEOCAMPO

Nick Deocampo is a filmmaker and a film historian. As an advocate for alterative cinema, Deocampo has produced documentaries that depicted life under the military dictatorship and the struggle to regain democracy in the Philippines. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Atelier Varan in Paris, and had among his teachers, Jean Rouch. He took up his master of arts in Cinema Studies in New York University through a Fulbright scholarship grant. He has made more than fifty documentaries over a span of forty years. His prizewinning works include Oliver, Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song, and The Sex Warriors and the Samurai. As a film historian, he has authored books that won the National Book award like Cine: Spanish Influences on Philippine Cinema and Alternative Cinema: The Unchronicled History of Alternative Cinema in the Philippines.