John Torres

John Torres is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer from the Philippines. He has made more than a dozen short films and five features. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. He currently teaches at the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University and conducts filmmaking workshops and co organizes artist talks and screenings in Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. His retrospectives have been shown at festivals including the Viennale, and in Seoul, Cosquín, and Bangkok.