Rafael Manuel
Mendoza

Awardee

Country

Philippines

Rafael Manuel promotes gender equality through his films.
Themes
Gender equality
Free Expression / Civil Society
Reexamining history
Others
Disciplines
Film
Visual Art
Awards
SEED Award 2021

Profile

Rafael Manuel is an audio-visual artist from the Philippines currently based in between Manila, London and Amsterdam. Manuel was Valedictorian of MFA Filmmaking at London Film School and has a BA in Communications and Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University where he graduated with honors. His short film Filipiana (2020) has been screened and awarded internationally. The main focus of Manuel’s work currently revolves around the exploration of specific milieus present in his country as microcosms of a more general and underlying postcolonial reality that is endemic to developing countries around the world.