JT Trinidad

Cebu

JT Trinidad (b. 2001) is a moving image artist based in Cebu, graduating summa cum laude and Class Valedictorian from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Their shorts have been selected for festivals including Locarno, QCinema, SeaShorts, Singapore, Jogja, Ji.hlava, Kaohsiung, Hamburg, XPOSED Berlin, NFFTY, BFI London, Tampere, and one is currently featured on The Criterion Collection. Trinidad has contributed articles and photographs to the Philippine Collegian and published film essays and reviews in various outlets. In 2024, they received an Ani ng Dangal award, and their photographs have been exhibited at Orange Project, UP Fine Arts Gallery, BenCab Museum, and ArtFair PH as part of Fotomoto 2023. They are an alumnus of ASEAN-ROK Film Leaders Incubator (Laos), Ricky Lee's Screenwriting Workshop, Mowelfund Film Institute, Hallym University (South Korea), and Film Futura (USA).

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2025

13 SEPT — 29 OCT 2025
ORANGE PROJECT, BACOLOD

2022

JT Trinidad tells a story of love and decay. Connections rupture quietly amidst unrelenting places—a loneliness wrung from distant longings.

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