Nick Deocampo Movies

An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his roots for...

A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time.

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

Based on a painting by Rembrandt, “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” the film is a meditation on the complex relations between fathers and sons....

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and...

"Ang Pagbabalik ng Ibong Adarna,” looks into our lost film history and the fight to restore and protect films for the future generations. It...

A frustrated man discovers that life in the city is no better than the countryside he left behind.

The filmmaker goes in search of his father, a former guerilla soldier who had walked out of the family a decade ago, and in the process discovers new...

Interweaving lives of LGBT personalities compose this documentary about the struggles and hopes of a queer community living in the country’s...

This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of...

A frenetic collage of scenes with a commentary provided by the pioneer of the independent film, Nick Deocampo, serves as a film manifesto for New...

A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as...

A family witnesses the transformation of their garbage into a monster.

A candid story about a Filipino transvestite who works in Japan’s entertainment center in order to support his family. In the daytime, Joan...

Underground video was an important tool during the Marcos era and contributed to the Aquino revolution. In the rejuvenated atmosphere within...

Four science high school students struggle to complete their capstone project—all while dealing with an oppressive principal, academic...

Narrated by Deocampo in English, the film documents the anti-Marcos revolution, the life of Oliver (a transvestite who was the subject of the first...

The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond...

Shot during Deocampo’s year as a scholar in France under Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema Direct. His first documentary provides a glimpse of...

A documentary about a gay nightclub performer with an especially lurid "Spider-man" act. Oliver is a female impersonator who supports his family by...