Ricky Orellana

He has worked variously as director, animator, film editor, sound recordist and art director on short and feature films, and documentaries. He began to make films while studying architecture at the University of Santo Tomas, and made experimental films at a workshop by German filmmaker Christoph Janetzko. His representative work is Sa Maynila, which won the Best Documentary award at the 3rd Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 1989, and Best Student Film Documentary at the 8th FAP Student Motion Picture Awards in 1990. He also directed the documentary films on Philippine National Artists Arturo Rogerio Luz and Maestro Lucio San Pedro. He is a board member of the Animation Council of the Philippines (ACPI) and the Samahan ng mga Filipinong Arkivista para sa Pelikula (SOFIA). He is currently the Audiovisual Archive Head at MOWELFUND and the Secretary-General at SEAPAVAA. He also teaches part time at the College of Saint Benilde School of Design & Arts handling Experimental Animation and Scriptwriting for Animation. He received a SEAPAVAA Fellow award at the 21st Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association Conference held in Manila last April 2017.