SINE CABOLOAN

Christopher was a graduate student of theater in the University of the Philippines. He won two Palanca Awards for Literature in 2001 and 2002 for his two full-length plays War Booty and The Pasyon of Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Colorum Uprising of 1931. 

He is an alumni of the 2006 Asian Film Academy fellowship program (AFA) in Pusan, South Korea where he attended a series of filmmaking workshops,  mentoring program in directing and a short film production with renown Asian film directors and young Asian filmmakers.

He founded his independent film company Sine Caboloan in 2007 dedicated to producing independent digital films about the Pangasinan region and its’ people.

His films and videos include Charlie Brown (1998), The Independence Mission (2005 Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Alternative Film and Video), The Pilgrim’s Journey (exhibited during the 2006 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival), The Calling (Best Short Film for Digital Lokal during the 2007 Cinemanila International Film Festival), Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who Longs for You: Landscape with Figures (Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema during the 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival), and recently The Child of the Sun, his first full-length feature film which won the Digital Lokal Lino Brocka Grand Prize and the Digital Lokal Best Director Award during the 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Christopher is a diasporic independent Filipino filmmaker presently working as a videographer and editor in the Middle East. He is a Pangasinan with Ilocano roots. He was born in the Central Pangasinan town of Bayambang in the northern region of the Philippines.