{"id":1266,"date":"2012-01-08T22:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patnubay.org\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2019-07-15T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:14:11","slug":"feature-story-christopher-gozum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Feature Story: Christopher Gozum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Christopher Gozum was born on December 11, 1976 and raised in Bayambang, Pangasinan. His mother, Esther Quiajalvo Gozum belongs to a family of hardworking farmers while his father, Danilo Gozum comes from a family of teachers and public servants. Christopher’s parents are both public school teachers.<\/p>\n

Christopher is a diasporic Filipino filmmaker currently working as a medical videographer and video editor in the Middle East. He came from the town of Bayambang, province of  Pangasinan in the northern Philippines.<\/p>\n

Christopher studied B.A.Film and M.A.Theater Arts in the University of the Philippines. He is an alumni of the 2006 Asian Film Academy (AFA) fellowship program in Pusan, South Korea. Christopher received the prestigious Palanca Awards for Literature for his two full-length plays in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n

Achievements and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2007, Christopher founded his independent film company Sine Caboloan committed to producing cutting edge films about the Pangasinan province and its\u2019 people in the homeland and in the diaspora. He passionately advocates for the preservation and promotion of the indigenous language in the province \u2013 Pangasinan. Christopher also has a growing interest on Filipino diaspora in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Christopher\u2019s independent films have won major awards and received citations in the Philippines including the Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Alternative Film and Video (2005), as well as the Digital Lokal Best Short Film <\/a>(2007), the Ishmael Bernal Award for Most Outstanding Young Filipino Filmmaker<\/a> (2008), the Digital Lokal Lino Brocka Grand Prize<\/a> (2009) and the Best Director Award<\/a> (2009), all in the Cinemanila International Film Festival. Anacbanua (The Child of the Sun) which he produced and directed, is the first feature film in the Pangasinan language.<\/p>\n

Christopher\u2019s digital films have been screened at international film festivals and new media art platforms in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, India, Australia, Greece, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, the U.S., and the Internet.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Christopher was featured in Philippine Online Chronicles March 2 Issue<\/a> as a Bagong Bayani for advocating the preservation of Pangasinan language through filmmaking.<\/p>\n