SIGFREID BARROS-SANCHEZ

• Age: 33
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Gemini
• Zodiac Year: Dragon
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: screenwriter-director
• Location: Manila : Philippines

About Me

THIRTY year old, six-feet four, and two-hundred twenty pound SIGFREID BARROS-SANCHEZ was born to a family of writers and artists in Vito Cruz, Manila. The second of six kids, at 16 years old he already wrote articles and interviewed alternative and underground musicians for 1990s Filipino rock music bible, Rock & Rhythm, while studying Political Science and trying out for a basketball varsity slot at the University of the East-Recto campus. During his college years, he decided to leave school to learn more about filmmaking after watching short films done by Jon Red ("Trip") and Roxlee ("Tito's Wedding"), which a Humanities professor asked them to watch. In 1999, he became part of the prestigious 11th Ricky Lee Scriptwriting Workshop and shortly after studied directing at the Filipino Feature Filmmaking class of Direk Marilou Diaz-Abaya in Ateneo. The year after, he further honed his craft at the 10th Cinema-As-Art Filmmaking Workshop at the Univeristy of the Philippines Film Center (UPFC) under directors Tikoy Aguiluz and Raymond Red, among others.

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Interests

• Sanchez is also an accomplished music video director. He won Best Director plum for last year's Awit Awards for Sugarfree's "Hari Ng Sablay". His next video
• Hale's "The Day You Said Goodnight" was the most requested music video in 2005 for the MTV and MYX countdowns. His third video Kyla's "Till They Take My Heart Away" also fared well in the charts. He was also assistant director to Bamboo's "Hallelujah" video and recently directed Shamrock's "Okey Lang" and a short film for Digital Viva
• "Aksyon Star
• " which will be included in a compilation of 20 short films by 20 indie Filipino directors.

Favorite Movies

• Before the year 2004 ended
• he was finally given a chance to direct his first two films via film grants from Cinemalaya and Cinema One Originals. The result were the black comedy "Lasponggols (Last Take
• Last Shot)" and the mockumentary "Ang Anak Ni Brocka (The Son of Lino Brocka)". Aside from these
• he also wrote Topel Lee's Cinemanila entry "Dilim" and acted for other indie film festivals finalists like Mike Daganalan's "Isnats
• " Ron Bryant's "Baryoke
• " and Jon Red's "Anak Ng Tinapa".

Favorite Music

• He also switched to the lyrics of his favorite local and foreign bands as his books as he noticed that bands and artists like U2
• Sting
• Sinead O'Connor
• Michelle Shocked
• Tori Amos
• Tracy Chapmann
• Bob Marley
• 10
• 000 Maniacs
• and others during that time tackle more meaningful and more truthful themes than what the local media fed him.

Favorite Books

• His love for films started when he was kicked out of the school's library for the rest of his tenure at his high school eventhough he was only in his sophomore year. He spent his library breaks going home instead and watching old black and white films on a local channel then switching to another channel afterwards that showed Filipino Western films.

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