SUNDAY, MARCH 29 at 7 PM

Kanakan-Balintagos is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Filipino filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of Shaman-Kings from the Palawan tribe but is one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan. He adopted his tribal-spirit name Kanakan-Balintagos after his uncle, who is a shaman in Palawan, dreamt about him. He said in an interview, “In his dream, he saw me in the middle of a sandbar holding a camera that turned into a blowgun. I became a kanakan … a hunter. Suddenly, great waves appeared from both sides of the sandbar, but I remained unharmed, untouched.” One of the leading independent filmmakers in the Philippines, he was recently chosen in Take 100, The Future of Film, which presents an emerging generation of the most talented filmmakers around the world. Kanakan’s films have been screened in major festivals around the world including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Montreal, Pusan, Toronto and Rotterdam. Curated by EPFC’s February/March LA AIR artist Anna Luisa Petrisko and Marybelle MB.

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