
Jeremy Luke Bolatag
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Jeremy Luke Bolatag is a Filipino filmmaker who earned his bachelor's degree in Film at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. He seeks to highlight themes on diaspora and identity. His short documentary film, KATONG GABII, received international acclaim, after being screened at numerous film festivals, including the shortlist for the 2018 BAFTA Student Film Awards. In 2019, the fiction digital series he wrote, “B124”, was a finalist at the CineFilipino Film Festival. His feature film in development, ISAGANI, was selected as a grantee for Hot Docs’ CrossCurrents International Doc Fund 2021. He is producing Angeline Teh's debut feature film, HOW TO STOP FIRECRACKERS FROM BURNING, which participated at Docs by the Sea 2022's Storytelling Lab. Jeremy is an alumnus of Tribeca Film Institute’s IF/Then, One World Media’s Global Short Docs Forum, and FFD & Docmonde France’s ASIADOC. He recently completed his MA in Documentary Film Directing (DocNomads) as an Erasmus Mundus scholar. During his free time, you'll find him strumming his ukulele and singing to himself.