Bernard Jay Mercado

Bernard Jay Mercado is an independent Filipino filmmaker and expanded cinema artist. His short films have been screened in various international and local film and art festivals. His most recent work, "Man in the Cinema House" (2015), an experimental black-and-white silent film comedy, is the recipient of the 2015 UP Film Institute Likha Adarna Best Thesis Film Award and represented the Philippines in the 3rd SalaMindanaw International Film Festival as the only Filipino short film in a selection of seven shorts; la...