Grace Simbulan
Email simbulan@usc.edu
Biography
Grace is a filmmaker and a PhD candidate in the Anthropology department, where her research explores memory, living archives, and the aftermath of state violence, blending ethnography with film.
Her films have been recognized by Berlinale, Asian Film Academy, Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), and Tokyo Docs, among others. In 2020, she was awarded the No Studios Artist Grant for film in Wisconsin. Her debut feature, A is for Agustin (2019), earned a spot in CNN Philippines’ Top 10 Films of 2019 and received multiple nominations and awards from international film festivals.
Education
- Univ of the Philippines, 4/2010
- MA Univ Wisc Madison
- BA Univ. of the Philippines
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Book Chapters
- Ligia (Licho) López López, Gioconda Coello (Ed.). (2020). Dreaming of the future(s): An exploration of the dreams and resistance of the Obo-Manobo. Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Placepp. 210.London: Routledge.