Heard: Son also rises

Mikhail Red at the Tokyo International Film Festival

Mikhail Red, who won the Best Asian Future Film Award for “Birdshot” at the Tokyo film fest, talks about his cinematic influences—including having filmmaker Raymond Red (who won a Palme d’Or for the short film, “Anino” in 2000) as a father:  “My dad never pushed me into filmmaking, but having artists as parents exposed me to cinema at a very early age. I got to see a lot of important films, growing up.

“On my own, I started experimenting… In my teens, one of my mentors was the late Marilou Diaz-Abaya.” —BAYANI SAN DIEGO JR.