Nicolas Armada Deocampo
Nick Deocampo, a noted Filipino film historian, director and writer
Born1959
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Nicolas Armada Deocampo (born 1959), best known as Nick Deocampo, is a Filipino filmmaker, film historian, film literacy advocate,[1] film producer,[2] author and the director of the Center for New Cinema.

Education

Deocampo completed his basic education at West Visayas State University and finished salutatorian at Iloilo High School in 1976.[citation needed] He graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts at the University of the Philippines (UP) in 1981.[1]

Under a Fulbright Scholarship Grant, Deocampo earned his Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies at New York University in 1989.[1][3] He was also a French government scholar and received his Certificate in Film at the Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema in 1989.[1] He received another Fulbright grant as an international senior research fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 2001.[1]

He has also held several academic positions and received several awards including:[1]

Career

He was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in 1992.[1] A year later, he was recognized in Japan as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World.[1] His contributions were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards (FAMAS),[4] and a Lamberto Avellana Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines.[1] Deocampo also made it to the Who's Who of the 21st Century by the International Biographical Society in England.[citation needed]

In 1999, Deocampo organised the Pink Film Festival, Philippines' first international gay and lesbian festival.[2]

As of 2023, Deocampo works at the University of the Philippines Film Institute as an Associate Professor.[3][4]

Works

Cinema Books

Writings

He is currently working on a five-volume history of Philippine cinema.[when?] Its first installment is Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2003) which won him his second National Book Award. The second volume will focus on Philippine cinema during the American period.

Several of his articles have been published in international publications, such as:

Documentaries

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "UP Film Institute Nick Deocampo - UP Film Institute". 6 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b Martin, Fran (2008). AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities. University of Illinois Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780252033070. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d Agrwaal, Anushrut Ramakrishnan (2020-06-21). "A Life in the Archives: An Interview with Professor Nick Deocampo". Frames Cinema Journal (17). doi:10.15664/fcj.v0i17.2063. ISSN 2053-8812. S2CID 225727793. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b "UP Associate Professor Nick Deocampo receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP)". UP Alumni Website. 2023-04-27. Retrieved 2024-01-08.