Stephanie Comilang
Filipina-Canadian filmmaker Stephanie Comilang is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design. Her documentary work investigates the way cultural and social factors shape our understanding of movement, capital, and work on a global scale: drawing on collaborative approaches and interviews, she creates narratives centred on the issues of present-day isolation, economic migration, and the role of the public arena in its urban and digital forms. Her filmography includes Children of the King, on child Elvis imitators; Flirting: Kyoto, on flirting rituals in that city; and more recently Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso, a science fiction documentary on the Filipina migrant workers who take over Hong Kong’s central business district every Sunday and turn it into a space for caregiving and sociability. Comilang lives and works between Toronto and Berlin.