Gónô Tmutul: Building a House of Stories

Jovi Juan is an artist, documentary filmmaker, writer, and technologist living in London and Baguio, Philippines. He began his career as an assistant to the renowned minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and went on to a teaching position at the University of the Philippines where he taught Art History, Photography and Installation. While there, he also served as a film critic and editor to several widely circulated newspapers and magazines. After returning to the United States, he completed a Masters at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and later worked as a designer and programmer at the digital studio R/GA Interactive. From 2006-2020, he led interactive graphics teams at The Wall Street Journal as art director and technical director in New York and London, where his work garnered recognition from The Loeb Foundation, the Society of News Design, The Webby Awards, and The British Journalism Awards. He recently finished a short film he wrote and directed called "HYPER▣EXT" which premiered at the Shout Out Festival in Manila in September. His art has been exhibited in New York, London, San Francisco, Marfa, Texas, and Cebu City, Philippines.

Benjie Manuel is the School Head at Tboli Sebù Senior High School, the first stand-alone senior high school for Department of Education Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) program in the country. He is a culture bearer, cultural worker and an artesanal work advocate. Gónô Tmutul is his first film

Maria Cristina Juan has an MA in Museum, Heritage and Material Culture Studies from SOAS,University of London, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines  Diliman. She is a member of the Faculty at the SOAS School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics and is the project head of Philippine Studies at SOAS , an interdisciplinary forum for Philippine-related teaching,research and cultural production in the U.K. She has implemented several digital humanities projects at SOAS, including Digital Filipiniana (2018) and  is the Principal Investigator for two AHRC funded projects on Decolonizing South East Asian Sound archives with a focus on BBC broadcasts, and a Digital Reconstruction of the Lost Library of San Pablo as a result of the British Invasion of the Philippines in 1762.