Nick Deocampo


Nicolas Armada Deocampo, best known as Nick Deocampo, is a Filipino filmmaker, film historian, film literacy advocate, film producer, 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. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts at the University of the Philippines in 1981.
In 1982, after his university studies, he obtained a scholarship from the French government to study at Atelier de formation au cinéma direct, a crucial experience in his career.
Under a Fulbright Scholarship Grant, Deocampo earned his Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies at New York University in 1989. He was also a French government scholar and received his Certificate in Film at the Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema in 1989. He received another Fulbright grant as an international senior research fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 2001.
He has also held several academic positions and received several awards including:
He was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in 1992. A year later, he was recognized in Japan as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World. His contributions were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards, and a Lamberto Avellana Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines. Deocampo also made it to the Who's Who of the 21st Century by the International Biographical Society in England.
In 1999, Deocampo organized the Pink Film Festival, the first international gay and lesbian festival in the Philippines.
, Deocampo works at the University of the Philippines Film Institute as an associate professor.

Works

Cinema Books

  • Sine Tala: Vol. 1: Philippine Cinema and History
  • Sine Tala: Vol. 2: Philippine Cinema and Culture
  • Sine Tala: Vol. 3: Philippine Cinema and Literacy
  • Alternative Cinema: The Un-chronicled History of Alternative Cinema in the Philippines
  • Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in Asia-Pacific
  • Cinema as Response to the Nation .
  • Early Cinema in Asia .
  • Eiga: Cinema in the Philippines during World War II.
  • Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema.
  • SineGabay: A Film Study Guide.
  • Lost Films of Asia .
  • Films from a “Lost” Cinema: A Brief History of Cebuano Cinema
  • Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines.
  • Beyond the Mainstream: The Films of Nick Deocampo.
  • El Cortometraje: Surgimiento de un nuevo cine Filipino.
  • Short Film: Emergence of a New Philippine Cinema.
  • Movement Magazine .

    Writings

He is currently working on a five-volume history of Philippine cinema. Its first installment is Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines 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:
  • Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, edited by Richard Abel
  • Vestiges of War, edited by Angel Shaw and Luis Francia
  • Queer Looks, edited by Martha Gever, John Greyson and Pratibha Parmar
  • Documentary Box, published by the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
  • Making Documentaries and News Features in the Philippines, edited by James Kenny and Isabel Enriquez Kenny
  • Sine Gabay: A Film Study Guide.

    Documentaries

  • Children of the Regime
  • Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song