Mr. Elvert Banares – Member of Jury Board For Short Films
Filmmaker, producer and multidisciplinary artist – member
Elvert Banares is a filmmaker, producer and multidisciplinary artist who shoots his films independently, acting as his own cinematographer, editor and production designer. He started making underground experimental films and video art since 1993 and has moved on to direct narrative shorts and documentaries starting from 2008 onwards. He is a two time Urian Award nominee (given by the Manunuri, Philippines’ longest-running Film Critics’ Group); three time Cultural Center of the Philippines Winner for Independent Film; and, winner of 5 international awards during the pandemic years in Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Ontario and Berlin. Last year, he was an official delegate at the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival for its Southeast Asian Conference of Filmmakers and Programmers. He is currently Festival Director of Sine Halaga Film Festival and Educational Resources and Bakunawa Festival, the Philippines’ first fantastic film festival.
His latest film “Sa Paglupad Ka Banog” (The Flight of Banog) is the first film in Philippine history to have been given consent by the Panay Bukidnon Elders to do a cinematic translation of portions of the indigenous Sugidanon Epics. The film won one of the Top Prizes at the 13th Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival and has by far been selected in 23 International Film Festivals.