Deocampo’s entire documentary career to date (1983-2013) spans the administration of six Philippine Presidents, recording on film how Filipino society has transformed itself through the years—from militarism to democracy. His films touch a diverse set of topics that will surely stimulate interest in the study of your core academic subjects, such as History, Humanities, Cinema and Communication Arts, Culture, Religion and Values Education, Gender Studies, Globalization and Migration, Nationalism, Politics, and Nature and Environment.

Film: American Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

The second episode in Nick Deocampo’s continuing saga on the history of Philippine cinema, this documentary recreates through 3D-rendered animation the evolution of motion pictures during the period o...

Cine>Sine: Spanish Beginnings of Philippine Cinema

This hour-long digital documentary recreates the beginning of motion pictures in the Philippines. By tracing the origin of cinema, it sheds light on Manila as the birthplace of motion pictures. Based on...

Edades: Victorio C. Edades And Moderism In Philippine Art

Painter Victorio C. Edades is featured with his life and works in this biographical documentary. As a painter, Edades is recognized for revolutionizing the art of modern painting, thus earning for himself...

The Sex Warriors and The Samurai

A candid story about a Filipino transvestite who works in Japan’s entertainment center in order to support his family. In the daytime, Joan attends to his daily training to prepare him for work as entertainer i...

Junkzilla

A family witnesses the transformation of their garbage into a monster. The rubbish they throw out of the window turns it into a harmful creature that threatens the whole metropolis. Ordinary people become...

A Legacy of Violence

The documentary essays the periodic violence marking the evolution of the Filipino nation. Dwelling on the events after the Edsa revolt, it traces the role played by media in shaping politics, and politics,...

Continuing Lives: Women of the Bases

When Mt. Pinatubo erupted forcing the largest American military base outside of the U.S. mainland to close down, Olongapo’s entertainment industry was threatened and with it the livelihood of thousands o...

Isaak

Based on a painting by Rembrandt, “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” the film is a meditation on the complex relations between fathers and sons. In two parallel stories, a son’s desire to be free is shown as he...

Let this film serve as a manifesto for a new cinema

Born out of the social turbulence of the time, this chronicle of the alternative cinema movement in the Eighties put together the leading young filmmakers of the time and their works shot in Super 8. The...

Memories of Old Manila

A short, syncretic vision of a city that was once the envy of the Orient but has now sunk into despair – Manila. In this short film, a historian (Behn Cervantes) travels through time from the swampland t...

Mother Ignacia

This film is about a community of native women in 17th century colonial Philippines and how they struggle to attain religious freedom during the past three hundred years. The founder of this community...

Oliver

Oliver is a female impersonator who supports his family by performing in Manila’s gay bars. He is Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, and Spiderman all rolled into one. He lives in Tondo and raises his child t...

Private Wars

An autobiographical story of the filmmaker’s search for his missing father. Leaving Manila for Iloilo, the filmmaker (Nick Deocampo) reflects on his life in the city and how he has turned his back from h...

Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song

A historical and social view of Filipino life caught in the throes of poverty, prostitution, and revolutionary change. It is a chronicle of the filmmaker’s personal history as it intersects with the s...

Tuklas Sining/Panitikan: Spanish Influence on Philippine Literature

An episode in a series of documentaries about Philippine arts focusing on the Spanish influences on Philippine literature.

Tuklas Sining/Pelikula: Philippine Cinema, 1961–1992

An episode in a series of documentaries about Philippine arts focusing on Philippine cinema from the Sixties to the Nineties.

Ynang-Bayan: To be a Woman is to Live in a Time of War

A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as the women’s struggle is laid to bear in the individual sto...