Bio

PATRICK F. CAMPOS is a Filipino film scholar, educator, programmer, and critic. He is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI), where he recently served as Director (2018-2020).

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His book The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century (UP Press, 2016) was a finalist in the Philippines' National Book Awards and Gintong Aklat Awards.

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Apart from teaching and researching, he conducts training and workshops on film and media literacy. In his capacity as a communication and media educator, he has produced textbooks for Filipino high school and college students, namely Communication and Media Theories (co-authored; UP Press, 2014), From Cave to Cloud (Phoenix, 2016), and Creating Communities (Vibal, 2019). In the same capacity, he represented the education sector as a member of the cinema committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (2014-2019).

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He is the programmer of the annual TINGIN Southeast Asian Film Festival in Manila and has programmed for Cinema Rehiyon, Guanajuato International Film Festival, and Image Forum, among others.

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He is a member of the Network for Promotion of Asian & Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) and is currently the editor-in-chief of Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema.