Jason Tan Liwag

Jason Tan Liwag is a scientist, actor, writer, educator, and film programmer from Dagupan City, Pangasinan. His works examine the life cycle of moving images and criticism in Southeast Asia, focusing on how state terror, censorship, gender, and disability shape cultural memory. He is an alumnus of film criticism programmes in Locarno, Rotterdam, Udine, Yamagata, and Manila, and is the founder of the QCinema Critics Lab. He is the first Filipino member of FIPRESCI. Jason programmes shorts for QCinema, the Leeds International Film Festival, and S-Express Philippines; coordinates the iNDIEGENIUS Project Lab; and lectures part-time at iACADEMY and the CIIT College of Arts and Technology. For his contributions to the arts and sciences, he was featured in Attitude Magazine’s 101 LGBTQ Trailblazers Changing the World Today in 2020.