Name: Nawruz Paguidopon
Country: Philippines
Profession: Documentary maker

While following a Filipino LGBT political party’s campaign for a seat in congress, the director looks back at his own troubled youth, growing up gay. An interesting fusion of animation and documentary.

Nawruz Paguidopon

Philippines (1985)

Documentary maker living in Manila. With our support he made ‘A Butterfly Taboo’.

His education:

University of the Philippines, College of Mass Communications
Bachelor of Film, Audio and Visual Communications
2009 – 2009 (first semester)

University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Communication
2002 – 2007

Maya-Maya film production
Art director/wardrobe
The ASEAN ROK Independent Cinema
October 2009 – November 2009 (2 months) San Rafael, Bulacan
Worked as an art director, wardrobe coordinator and production manager’s assistant for an independent film for the Busan International Film Festival 2009

‘Kaleldo’ [‘Summer Heat’] Film drama
On-the-job training production assistant for production design
May 2005 – Work under production designer Benjamin Padero for Brillante Medoza’s Film

‘Tondo, Beloved’ (Documentary) (2013)
Sound engineer
November 2013 – Worked as a sound engineer on Jewel Maranan’s full length documentary

‘Shapes of Crimson’ (Documentary) (2014)
Sound engineer
May 2013 – Worked as a sound engineer on EJ Mijares’ documentary

His Productions:

‘Bliss’ (2014)
Director and writer
Catch/Tell/Transform Documentary Workshop
January 2013 – present
Documentary Media Production workshop organised by the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (IFC), the Goethe-Institut Philippinen, the French Embassy, Alliance Française, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts

‘A Butterfly Taboo’ (2011-2014)
Director and writer
Invigorating Filipino Documentary Workshop
January 2010 – February 2011
Documentary Media Production workshop by the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (IFC), the Goethe-Institut Philippinen, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts

‘Rhose, Where Do Your Dreams Go?’ (2009)
Director and writer
Independent Productions
May 2008 – February 2009 (Hong Kong and Manila)
The documentary ‘Rhose, Where Do Your Dreams Go?’ was funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Set in an animation-documentary genre, it is a story about a Filipina’s lost dream in Hong Kong revolving around the lives of an American music songwriter, church and NGO workers and domestic helpers.