Dodo Dayao is a film intellectual and a multi-talented artist. Besides the online blog where he regularly posts his film reviews, he is also active as a script editor and comic strip author. He has significantly contributed to the publication of the pivotal book Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement, which introduces the Philippines' most prominent contemporary filmmakers. Dayao collaborated with one of the artists mentioned in the book, renowned experimenter John Torres, on the script for the short Lukas nino (2013). Up to now his own short films have by and large been screened at galleries. Violator (2014), his first feature, immediately positioned him among the region's most talented moviemakers.
50. MFF Karlovy Vary
