PUBLISHED WORKS


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FEATURED WORK

ANG MERKADO
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Funded by Research & Creation and Concept to Realization grants, Canada Council for the Arts
SHORT SCREENPLAY
Developed with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (2024–2025)
“Directed and produced by NOFAC3, ANG MERKADO tells the intertwining stories of a boy, his mother, and a street dog embroiled in a dangerous confrontation to survive.

Set in the heart of a bustling Filipino marketplace, the stop-motion drama unveils a haunting tapestry of trauma and betrayal. Based on Nikki Celis’ semi-fictional memoir, ‘The Market.’”





ON ROMANTICIZING HOME
INTERVIEW
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2024), Issue #3
“As diaspora kids, we’ve all probably heard the same noise about going home: “It’s where you can find yourself” and “Get in touch with your roots.”





BORN TO BE WHITE

NARRATIVE ESSAY
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2024), Issue #2
“As Filipinos, we find our pride through imagined fantasies of the motherland and express it lovingly through writing and music and visual art—but where are the outliers that talk about our pain?”




ARE WE ASIAN ENOUGH?
INTERVIEW
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2023), Issue #1
“For Filipinos, we couldn’t care less—and that’s a good thing.”




IN CONVERSATION: FILIPINOS ON THE SEARCH FOR STABILITY
INTERVIEW
Published on Sticky Rice Magazine (2023), Vol. #3

What does the future look like for a community that feels like they’re never good enough? It’s about uncovering the past and telling our stories.



THE MARKET
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2023), Issue #1
“We make our way through stalls and people. Our feet hit concrete in syncopated rhythm as everything else—the faces, the jeering, the stares—become blurry frames in a movie that I can’t make out.”




MONTREAL ARTIST CHIEN CHAMPION ON DESIGNING THE CANADA EXCLUSIVE NIKE BAGEL DUNK BOX
FEATURE PROFILE
Published on COMPLEX CANADA (2023)

“Felipe Arriagada-Nunez wants to tell stories. Born and raised in Montreal’s Mile End, the artist—a.k.a Chien Champion—comes fresh off a recent collaboration with Nike, illustrating the Canada-exclusive box art for the limited edition “Montreal Bagel” Dunk Lows.”




SPAM

Nominated for the Alberta Magazine Publishing Association’s Emerging Writer Award 2017-2018.
NARRATIVE ESSAY
Revised and republished on Sticky Rice Magazine (2021). 
Originally published in FreeFall issue XXVI.II (2017).

“Lately, I’ve been dreaming of SPAM. No, not the unsolicited emails that one receives daily in their inbox. But rather, the canned meat so often associated with lowbrow culture.”




DIRTSONG: A CONVERSATION WITH FRED LEONE OF BLACK ARM BAND
FEATURE PROFILE
Published on Arts Commons Magazine (2017)

“In Brisbane, Fred Leone is driving as we converse over the phone. Though it’s nearing the afternoon, Leone sounds exhausted, having slept little the night earlier as he premiered his own production that he had written, directed and produced all by himself




FROM A HANG-UP TO A CULTURAL PHENOMENON: JIM WONG-CHU ON ASIAN CANADIAN LITERATURE
FEATURE PROFILE
Published on Georgia Straight (2016)

“Ricepaper founder Jim Wong-Chu talks about the rise of Asian-Canadian literature, and his part in its history.




AN ONGOING STRUGGLE WITH SOUTH AFRICA’S INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY
FEATURE PROFILE
Published on Georgia Straight (2016)

“Director Ryley Grunenwald talks about her experience filming the Shore Break.




LIFE AS A FIRST NATION’S PERSON IN CALGARY’S HARDCORE SCENE
FEATURE PROFILE
Published on NOISEY and VICE (2015)
“The 2015 Mrs. Universe pageant was more than just show, with Ashley Callingbull Burnham, of the Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta, being the first First Nations woman to win Mrs. Universe.”




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