Miguel Lorenzo Peralta

Biography

“MIKO” MIGUEL LORENZO PERALTA is an independent filmmaker from the University of the Philippines Film Institute, who works as a freelance film and video editor, sound designer, and musical scorer. His interests in creating experimental documentary films stem from a desire to explore memory, history, and identity through the use of personal archives, both physical and digital, playing with its form, while also having a distinct approach to sound design. He participated in a Southeast Asian creative documentary storytelling workshop, AsiaDoc, organized by Forum Film Dokumenter and Docmonde-France, to develop a project on his personal experiences and reflections on flooding in Marikina. He has also worked in post-production on numerous short film projects, including several online digital theatre productions for the Ateneo de Manila University.