North Luzon Cinema Guild, Inc. X Scottish Documentary Institute
Lenses x Cultures is a project in collaboration with the North Luzon Cinema Guild, Inc. and the Scottish Documentary Institute- supported by the British Council, dedicated to supporting emerging filmmakers and their projects. Filmmakers who have the passion and commitment to telling powerful stories through creative documentary, we are here to help develop your idea by sharing our expertise from our pool of mentors.
Lenses x Cultures is a project funded by the British Council through the Connections Through Culture Program. The Creative Documentary Film Lab is designed to promote new connections, exchanges, and collaborations between the UK and Southeast Asia that build long-term relationships among artists, creative practitioners, and art and cultural organizations, hubs, networks, and collectives.
The Creative Documentary Film Lab aims to intensify the stories and develop the project with the filmmakers that aim to enhance their skills in creative documentary and to produce competitive documentary projects showcasing the unique narratives. It also aims to link filmmakers and projects to possible co-producers leading to collaborations.
LensesXCultures Film Lab Fellows
Project Implementers
Jerome Dulin
Founder/ Director
Jerome Dulin is the Founder and Managing Director of North Luzon Cinema Guild, Inc. since 2015. He is the Program Director for Online Film Lab for Regional Stories, Quarantimes: Short Films from the Regions and the Panday Pluma— the Online Educational Programs for the Guild.
He has worked as a film programmer and consultant to different local festivals in North Luzon and an international film festival such as the Knowmad Short Film Festival in Germany. He is also a One Young World Ambassadors in the Philippines. He is also currently a member of the Advisory Council for the Creative Hubs in Southeast Asia under the British Council. He is also one of the Secretariats for Regional Film Network founded during the pandemic.
Noè Mendelle
Founder/ Director
Noe has worked in film & TV for over thirty years as a Director and a Producer. She set up Scottish Documentary Institute in 2004 and since then has devised several award-winning talent initiatives, including Bridging the Gap, BtG+, This is Scotland, Stories and The Edinburgh Pitch. She is a research professor at Edinburgh College of Art where she supervises PhD by practice in Documentary Film.