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.
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