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Reading Icon for January - February 2020: Direk Richard Soriano Legaspi of Barangay Maysan, Valenzuela City


PLV Library's Reading Icon for January - February 2020
RICHARD SORIANO LEGASPI
Art Academician / Advocacy Filmmaker / Artiste Multidisciplinaire
Gawad Dr. Pio Valenzuela Awardee for 2019 (Film)

He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the East, major in Advertising Arts. He studied filmmaking at the Asian Film Academy in Busan, South Korea in 2007. His artistic practice is more focused on raising consciousness and creating space for dialogue on communal issues, the responsible transformation of society, and creative activation through contemporary art.

Legaspi’s achievements gained more importance when he represented the Philippines in major festivals and won the Miglior Montaggio award in San Gio, Italy. His films were officially selected in more than 150 International Film Festivals. He received the prestigious UNESCO Laureate artist recognition in 2013 and eventually becoming a resident artist of the Università delle Idee – Italy which he also won the ILLY DESIGN PRIZE – Art for Social Change.
Direk Richard is an art academician, advocacy filmmaker, and an artiste multidisciplinaire.

A two-time Gawad Cultural Center of the Philippines for Alternative Film and Video awardee, 62nd Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature winner in 2012, Gawad Urian nominee in 2013 and 2015, National Commission for Culture and the Arts Competitive Grant winner 2009 and 2012, Cinemalaya and Cinema One Film Festivals Jury Prize in 2009 and 2012, International Photography Awards (IPA) 2017 – Silver Prize winner for moving images and the Film Development Council of the Philippines acknowledged Legaspi as one of Philippine Film Ambassadors of 2017 for winning in Kingston, Jamaica.

Legaspi was the first Filipino artist featured in a retrospective of Monsoon Asia Film Festival 2016 in Taiwan; he was also invited to different art shows in major alternative galleries and exhibition spaces in Italy, Germany, and Taiwan. His films about migration and integration of memories were exhibited at the Arte AL Centro in 2013, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy 2015, PeninsulaLab Wollinerstrasse, Berlin 2015, Sianguang Workstation, Taiwan 2017, UNICEF – 3 United Nations, New York and Instituto Italiano de Cultura ” – Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires, 2017. In 2018, he received the prestigious Taiwan Emerald Initiative Grant for South-East Asian art visionaries.

The PLV Library is humbled to have Prof. Richard Soriano Legaspi as our Reading Icon for January to February 2020. His books and some of his trophies are currently on display at the Main Library.

Follow Direk Richard on his blog: https://cycloneloopfilmprod.wordpress.com/

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