Jason Liwag

Ilocos, Quezon City

Scientist, writer, & educator. Programmer at @QCinemaPH & @leedsfilmfest. Founder of the QCinema Critics Lab. Member of @fipresci @goldenglobes & @dorianawards

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Moral

Feb 12, 2025 | screenslate.com | Jason Liwag

Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s Moral (1982) is widely regarded as a feminist and humanist masterpiece in the Philippines.
“The Abortion Ban May be Protecting the Unborn, But It’s Killing Our Women”: Antoinette Jadaone on

Nov 27, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Jason Liwag

Back to selection by Jason Tan Liwag in Directors, Interviews on Nov 27, 2024 Around sixteen years ago, the late great Filipino film critic Alexis Tioseco saw Antoinette Jadaone’s student short films ‘plano (2005) and Saling Pusa (2006) and began championing her work.
More mature star performances, underdeveloped Calgary

Nov 14, 2024 | rappler.com | Jason Liwag

When Hello, Love, Goodbye was released into theaters in 2019, it became an unparalleled box-office success, uniting Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, actors who were departing from their respective love teams, with director Cathy Garcia-Sampana, arguably one of the pillars of modern day commercial romance films.
QCinema International Film Festival 2024 - Short and mid-length works

Nov 10, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Jason Liwag

1-6: QCShorts International A — Filipino shorts 7-12: QCShorts International B — Southeast Asian shorts 13-18: Shorts Expo 19: Mid-length 20-24: Directors Factory Philippines Block or Report 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23...
Meet Philippine theater’s new leading ladies

Sep 26, 2024 | philstarlife.com | Jason Liwag

ByJason Tan Liwag Published Sep 27, 2024 5:00 amWhen the pandemic ravaged the world, the digital landscape seemed to be the most promising space for young talent to thrive. But in the last two or so years, amidst the mounting aversion towards screens and the deluge of “content,” audiences have grown weary of the black mirror tied to our hands. Instead, people have turned to live theater, which has unexpectedly boomed since its return in 2022, to discover and hone young artists.
“Sit Here. Stand Here. Work Here. Slap Her Here”: Lav Diaz and Hazel Orencio on

Sep 3, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Jason Liwag

Click here to read our summer 2024 issue, featuring Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Between the Temples's Nathan Silver, Daniel Garber on how true crime series are edited and more...
Criticism remains

Jul 27, 2024 | philstarlife.com | Jason Liwag

While waiting to board my flight back from Bangladesh in January, I discovered that CNN Life was shutting down. Rumors had been in the air about the closure of CNN Philippines, but it didn’t make the news any less devastating. Life was one of the few publications that felt like it would stick around; one of the last capable of setting the cultural agenda beyond Manila.
A conversation with the cast of ‘The Bear’ Season 3

Jun 29, 2024 | rappler.com | Jason Liwag

Equal parts kitchen nightmare turned dark comedy turned familial drama, The Bear is in a rare class of its own that manages to juggle both tears and chuckles, letting people know what happens behind restaurant doors while also unpacking generational traumas. Few shows have captured the attention of the zeitgeist as quickly, smoothly, and consistently as FX’s The Bear. It’s not difficult to understand why.
REVIEW: The Manila Film Festival 2024 - Set B

Jun 16, 2024 | rappler.com | Jason Liwag

The great joy of a film festival is discovering new voices in filmmaking that have something to say, have worlds they want to initiate us into. The Manila Film Festival has announced the arrival of a handful of new filmmakers to watch out for. The shorts in Set B contain some of the festival’s highest peaks, works that present Manila not only as a place but also as a state of mind, with these psychological and spatial qualities seemingly inseparable from one another.
REVIEW: The Manila Film Festival 2024 - Set A

Jun 15, 2024 | rappler.com | Jason Liwag

In the last few years, short films have become central to the cultural conversation in cinema. In response, more local and international festivals have begun handing out grants for younger filmmakers to create work with a budget, keen on nurturing a new crop of filmmakers.