Christopher Gozum

At 33, Christopher Gozum has gone places—literally and figuratively—most people his age would only dream of.

Currently working as a medical videographer and video editor in Riyadh, this independent Pangasinan filmmaker studied film and theater in the University of the Philippines and is an alumnus of the 2006 Asian Film Academy Fellowship Program in Pusan, South Korea.

Christopher is also an award-winning playwright with two Palanca Awards for Literature for his two full-length plays in 2001 and 2002.

A true Pangasinense at heart with strong affiliation with the Pangasinan dialect, most of his award-winning films were shot in the province and dubbed in Pangasinan.

He is a consistent Cinemanila International Film Festival awardee. . .

His works have been screened in various film festivals in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, the U.S.

Early this month, his latest film Anacbanua which was inspired by the Manila-Dagupan Railroad Station in his hometown in Bayambang was screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea.

"Being far away from home gives me the privilege of what we call creative distance as I write film stories about the homeland I have left behind.

"Right now, I am starting to write a script for a new full-length experimental film project set here in Saudi Arabia. It is called Insipan Ya Dalin or the Promised Land. A Pangasinan migrant worker arrives in Saudi Arabia for the first time and he is searching for his missing wife who came four years earlier to work as a maid in a Saudi family."

Though Christopher has no plans of doing commercial films, he founded his own independent film company Sine Caboloan which is committed to producing cutting-edge digital films about Pangasinan and its people in the homeland.

Ladies and gentlemen, our notable Pinoy for arts, Mr. Christopher Gozum!

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