Dodo Dayao

Dodo Dayao writes about films, writes films, makes films, paints and programs.

His essays on cinema and music, among others, have appeared in Esquire Philippines, Kino Punch, Men's Health, Monday, Rogue, Philippine Free Press, The Philippine Star, Singapore Cinematheque Quarterly and Vault.

He is the writer of the comic books Askals and Noisy Blood, and one of the writers and co-editors of Philippine New Wave: This Is Not A Film Movement. He also co-programmed the Tioseco-Bohinc Film Series and the 4th .MOV Film Music and Literature Festival, and was part of the jury in the 2013 Cinemanila Film Festival.

Some of the films he has co-written include Khavn's Hindi Kita Kilala (I Don’t Know You), John Torres' Lukas Nino (Lukas The Strange) and Joel Ruiz's The End Is Bigger Than Love.

His own installation films Memories Of Places I’ve Never Been and Zero were shown at the Solo(s) Project House in New Jersey and his last work, Entropy Machine, will be screened in 2014 at the Horse Hospital in London.

He directed his first feature film for Cinema One originals, Violator, in 2014.

He is currently finishing his first book of essays and preparing his second feature film.

He lives in Quezon City and is always working on something. He hopes to some day get some sleep.