Alyx Ayn Arumpac is a documentary filmmaker born in the south of the Philippines. Her film Aswang received 25 awards, including the top prizes at the RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival, DMZ Documentary Festival, Film Festival Documenter Yogyakarta, the Camera Obscura Artistic Excellence Award from FDCP, the Amnesty International Award in Thessaloniki and the FIPRESCI Prize at IDFA. Aswang is the first documentary to win Best Picture at both Gawad Urian and the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards. Alyx also received the Gawad Urian award for Best Director. Her filmmaking has been supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund, Sundance Institute, CNC Aide Aux Cinemas du Monde, Berlinale World Cinema Fund and more. Alongside her independent films, she was recently commissioned to direct and produce these prize-winning documentaries. Alyx is an alumna of Docnomads, the UP Film Institute, the Philippine High School for the Arts, Berlinale Talents, IDFAcademy and Talents Tokyo.
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