Jethro Patalinghug

Jethro Patalinghug is a filmmaker based in San Francisco, California.  His film My Revolutionary Mother was cited as the best documentary film in the Philippines for 2015 by a coalition of film critics at pinyorebyu.com. It also won Best Short Documentary Film at the Boston Asian American Film Festival, Singkwento International Film Festival, and Unofficial Google Film Festival 2013 among others. Patalinghug is also an experienced television and corporate video producer and has produced content for Google, MTV Philippines, Studio23 MYX, GMA7, QTV11 and ABC5. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Film and Video Production at the Art Institute of California – San Francisco.

#MyNameIs is a documentary film following a protest movement against Facebook’s real name policy which is being led by drag queens, transgender people, Native Americans, domestic abuse survivors, and other ethnic minorities.