Kwentong Creatives
By Gio Puyat
Kwentong CreativesNov 13, 2020
65: Sacha Raps on Glasswork & Printmaking
Sacha is a self-taught artist based in New York who creates glasswork, prints and illustrations. "Manila roots, New York fruits" is a slogan that describes her vibrant art influenced by an immigrant identity. She is also an educator who shares her love for glasswork through workshops.
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64: KC Live! Audience Q&A w/ Atom Araullo, Shaira Luna & Kookie Santos (Part 2)
Part 2 - The live recording of the Club KC event where our panel answers a Lightning Round of random questions! Find out about our panel's zodiac signs, pets, and who among them is a classical flutist! Also hear questions from our live audiences about budgets, burnout & influential films & TV!
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63: Best of KC Live! with Atom Araullo, Shaira Luna & Kookie Santos (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2 - The live recording of the Club KC event, where Gio asks our panel questions about Creative Careers from different perspectives: Atom Araullo on journalism, Kookie Santos on design & Shaira Luna on photography.
Stay tuned for Part 2 where we share our Lightning Round and Audience Q&A!
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62: Gabby Padilla on Acting
Gabby Padilla is a film & theatre actress who's made a name for herself in the performing arts. She's known for her roles in Gitling, Billie & Emma, and A Very Good Girl just to name a few. Gabby shares her thoughts on a love for stories, creative inspiration, bringing characters to life, and learning from collaborators.
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61: The Walters on Music, Writing & Touring
The Walters are a 5-piece band from Chicago, known for their viral hit "I Love You So". Gio caught them before their set at the Wanderland Music & Arts Festival.
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60: Sonny Thakur on Photography
Sonny is a photographer who's captured beautiful images of food, people and places for restaurants & publications around the world. He's also the co-founder of Grid Magazine. We talk about mentorship, relationships with clients and sharing work with authenticity.
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59: Graphika Manila 2024 - Takeaways from a Conference of Creativity
Gio goes to Graphika! Gain XP from the Conference on Creativity, featuring highlights from amazing speakers like Lauren Tsai, Benjamin Su of Pixar, Timothy Goodman, the Acid House & many more! Also hear learnings and insights straight from the KC Community!
We're also gonna be at Wanderland! Get your tickets now at wanderlandfest.com! Come home to good music & good people. Come home to Wanderland.
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58: Martika Ramirez Escobar on Creativity, Balance & Cinema
Martika is a writer-director & cinematographer. Her film "Leonor Will Never Die" has won awards around the world including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She's currently in the process of writing her second feature film.
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57: Chef Kriza Palmero of Pilya's Kitchen on Food
Kriza is the chef and owner of Pilya's Kitchen at The Grid Food Market. After making hundreds of noodle bowls a day from her time in New York, she's made a name for herself with her unique take on hand-pulled noodles and delicious Asian dishes.
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56: Abi Marquez on Food & Content Creation
Abi aka "Lumpia Queen" is the Tiktok Food Content Creator of 2023, known for her entertaining recipes & food reviews that inform millions of people from around the world.
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55: Nanay Mo on Creative Projects with Friends
Gio brings his bandmates from Nanay Mo to talk about creative collaboration, work-life balance, music and where friendship fits into all that.
Nanay Mo is an indie rock band made up of Jong (vocals), Nash (drums), Mag (bass), Anjo and Gio (guitars). Check out their music here:
Music video of Nanay Mo's latest single STUPID:
https://youtu.be/2wbOdIwGae4?si=nihk20gE8SSYTqSq
Nanay Mo on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2WJwor5iMx5d0Gu0kkRzED?si=bHIH291vSXegZK4JiAoCgw
54: Lessons for Creatives in 2024
53: Jayda on Creativity, Identity & Music (VIDEO)
Jayda is a musician, singer-songwriter & actress who grew up around music through the concerts of her pop star parents. With a dedicated fan base and a fresh batch of personal songs, she's one of the most exciting artists to watch out for.
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52: Prod Horror Stories (Halloween Special)
A collection of supernatural stories from decades of shooting on creepy locations. We're joined by two film industry veterans with a special gift for sensing spirits, Executive Producer Emie Rodriguez & Line Producer Beng Nadres 👻
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51: Mara Manalo on Interior Design
Mara is an interior designer, production designer and founder of Studio Mara. She creates unique designs that serve both aesthetic and functional purposes in residential, commercial and public spaces.
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50: Jamie Miller on an Unexpected Career in Music (VIDEO)
Jamie Miller is a singer-songwriter from the UK. His uplifting songs have charted globally with millions of streams, also going viral all over Tiktok. He released “Maybe Next Time” featuring OPM artist Moira Dela Torre and just launched his new EP The Things I Left Unsaid. Jamie joins us for his first podcast ever in the Philippines!
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49: Toff De Venecia on Developing Creative Industries in the PH
Toff is congressman, journalist, theatre director and principal author of the Philippine Creative Industries Development Bill (RA 11904). We talk about the journey in making the Philippines the #1 Creative Hub in ASEAN by 2030, and finding hope in our country where #TheFutureIsCreative
Learn more about how you can engage with Philippine Creative Industries Month at https://www.pcim2023.com/
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48: Raco Ruiz on Visual Arts, Content Creation & Cereal
Coming off his sold-out exhibit "Surrealicious", Raco Ruiz continues to make visual art through paintings, murals and digital art inspired by a twisted take on cartoon culture. He's also a content creator who's gone viral with his conyo comedy sketches! Ayyygagiii
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47: Nobody Clothing on Fashion, Design & Branding
Nobody is a clothing brand coming out of Cubao, QC. Started by a dedicated group of young creators, it has grown from a lowkey streetwear brand into a vibrant community of passionate fans who vibe with its blooming designs. We talk about their journey in building a brand with sincerity and creativity.
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We're also sponsored by Sunny Side Sound Productions (sunnysidesound.ph) who provided us our professional recording studio and Hive Audio International (facebook.com/hiveaudiointernational) who supplied our high-quality microphones.
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46: Filmmaker Q&A with Cinemalaya Directors
Part 2 of our conversation with award-winning filmmakers Jopy Arnaldo & Kevin Mayuga. We take audience questions about collaboration, working with actors, scriptwriting & dealing with imposter syndrome.
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46: Film Directing with Jopy Arnaldo & Kevin Mayuga (Part 1)
Award winning first-time filmmakers Jopy Arnaldo and Kevin Mayuga join us for a conversation about starting & finishing passion projects.
At the recent Cinemalaya Festival, Jopy's film Gitling won Best Screenplay and Kevin's film When this is All Over won Best Cinematography, Production Design & Musical Score.
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45: Reese Langsangan on Music, Creativity & Growth
44: Kwentuhan w/ Filmmakers (A Live Podcast & Open Forum)
Our first live podcast event featuring our panel of professional filmmakers: Cinematographer Pong Igancio, Production Designer Nina Torres & Director Paul Halili. Listen in on the Q&A session between our live audience and our panel - everything from freelancing, accountability and even love life in prod?!
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43: Jappy Agoncillo on Freelance Art, Moving out of the PH & Perseverance
Jappy is a muralist and illustrator currently based in New York City. His art style is instantly recognizable and unique, seen all around Manila on buildings, restaurants and offices. He’s been commissioned by clients like Disney, Marvel Studios, Playstation, Adidas, Adobe and Spotify.
42: Juan Karlos on Creativity, Music & Acting
juan karlos is a singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He’s garnered hundreds of millions of plays on Spotify with hit songs like “Buwan” and “Demonyo”. He’s also an actor who’s been in films like “Blue Room" and the upcoming "When This is All Over" in this year's Cinemalaya.
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41: Reb Atadero on Theatre, Storytelling & Content Creation
Reb Ataderois an accomplished theatre actor, voice actor, host & content creator. With 17 years of experience in the industry, he’s best known for his role in "Ang Huling el Bimbo” He’s currently starring in "Lungs" in the Sandbox Fest 2023. 🎭 He's also content creator with a large following online from his educational content on all things history & culture. 🌏
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40: Dom Guyot on Songwriting, Music & Dance
39: Drew Arellano on Travel & Work/Life Balance
Drew Arellano is a man with many roles - he’s a host who’s been traveling the Philippines for 2 decades with the hit travel show Biyahe ni Drew. He’s the co-founder of the performance-wear brand Vamos. And most of all, he’s a happy family man whose made his work and home life live in harmony.
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38: Hannah Reyes Morales on Photojournalism
Hannah Reyes Morales is an award winning photojournalist and National geographic explorer whose work conveys the human stories behind some of the critical issues of our time. She was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2021, recognized as a cultural leader by the World Economic Forum, and one of her photographs was featured in the 100 Iconic images from this Century. She has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and many more.
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37: Frances Cabatuando on Mindful Living with Home Buddies & Nobi Home
36: Nicole Alba on Content Creation, Finance & Growth
Nicole is a content creator who makes videos on personal finance, investing & self-development. With over 400k subscribers on Youtube, she's one of the best creators in the space - and she's just getting started at 22 years old! We talk about the rapid growth of her channel, to the burnout she experienced from creating content weekly. She shares plenty of insight on investing, long term health & happiness, and possibly retiring before turning 30?
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35: Ashley Gosiengfiao on Gaming, Content Creation & Spirituality
Ashley is a content creator whose made a huge name for herself in the world of gaming & cosplay. She's also a talented musician & photographer whose been creating her own content for over a decade now. And more recently, she's been diving deep into spirituality & esoteric knowledge as a certified tarot card reader.
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34: Kookie Santos on Nurturing Creativity, Filipino Design & Leadership at Canva
Kookie is the former creative director of Serious Studio and is currently one of the Design Leads at Canva Philippines. Her work has gotten recognized all over the world in publications like Adobe & The New York Times. She gives talks and workshops that focus on nurturing one's own creative identity, with a leadership style that focuses on compassion and empathy. This episode was done in partnership with Canva. Listen to the episode to find out how you can win a voucher for a Canva Pro subscription valid for 1 year!
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33: Big Picture Insights w/ BJ Pascual, Atom Araullo, Erwan Heussaff & Red Ollero
This 2023, take a step back and take some time to think about your journey as a creative. Some of our favorite excerpts from my conversations with guests - all lessons and insight that you can apply to your own big picture thinking. You'll hear from photographer BJ Pascual, comedian Red Ollero, journalist Atom Araullo, and content creator Erwan Heussaff.
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32: Angelo Mendoza on Photography, Travel & Career
Angelo Mendoza is a photographer known for his work in travel, landscape and portraiture. As a full-time creative, he’s done plenty of prominent commercial work and is also a co-owner of a wedding photography studio. We talk about having photography as a career in the Philippines, finding personal style and the intricacies of capturing images out on assignment.
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31: Creative Blocks w/ CRWN, Quark Henares, Rob Cham & Jazz Nicholas
A new short format episode where Gio collates the best excerpts from guests around a specific topic. Now, we explore the strategies & lessons that can help us overcome that dreaded creative block. Featuring interviews from creatives in music, design & filmmaking.
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30: Jazz Nicolas on Songwriting, Creativity & Careers in Music
Jazz Nicolas is an award winning songwriter, musical scorer and multi-instrumentalist. He's also the drummer and vocalist of the Itchyworms, responsible for hit songs such as "Di Na Muli", "Beer", and "Akin Ka Na Lang" - to name a few. We talk about his career as a professional musician for over 20 years, his thoughts on chasing the "Filipino sound", and techniques on getting over creative blocks.
29: Design Careers LIVE w/ Dan Matutina, Joel Luna & Maine Manalansan-Veneracion
This was recorded live for Design Week Philippines 2022: Design For All. In this roundtable discussion and open forum we try to demystify what it means to have a career in design across different sectors: image-making, place-making and experience-making.
Dan Matutina is a designer, illustrator, founding partner at Plus63 and Hydra Design Group. Joel Luna is someone with over 30 years of design experience in architecture, planning, urban design and design management. He is the former Chief Architect at Ayala Land and founder of JLPD studio. Maine Manalansan-Veneracion is the former editor of YoungSTAR and Design Director of the Sandbox Collective. Today, she uses her design background in an applied field as Brand Strategy Lead at Edukasyon PH.
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28: Erwan Heussaff on Content Creation & Brand Building
Erwan is a dedicated writer, content creator and entrepreneur. He's been building his own brand in the food & culture space for over a decade now, from the Fat Kid Inside to his new and thriving content studio FEATR. We talk about his journey through the restaurant business and how he finally took on content creation as a full-time job. This is a great episode for any creative with goals in brand building, entrepreneurship and content creation.
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27: Shaira Luna on Photography & Fashion
Shaira Luna has been a professional photographer for 15 years now, with an impressive body of work in fashion, beauty, food & advertising. Her unique style particularly shines in her recent works with musicians like IV of Spades, SB19 & Zild. She shares the inspirations behind her passions in fashion, thrifting and vintage things. Also, we get into her history from growing up as a Promil kid/"gifted child".
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26: Brian Sy on Acting for Film/Theatre & Mental Health
Brian Sy has been acting professionally for over 10 years now, landing roles in film, TV & the stage. He's gathered plenty of insight on the craft & business of acting from his mentors in the local theatre community. We touch up on being present in creative work, career advice in a Filipino context, and mental health.
25: Quark Henares on the Business of Filmmaking & Creativity
Quark Henares is a writer, director, producer & DJ who is now head of Amazon Prime Video Philippines, after heading Globe Studio for 6 years. He's been at the creative and business ends of the filmmaking industry, which affords him a unique perspective on production and media. Quark's life and work has also hugely been influenced by an immersion in music, starting off as a band manager; then a music video director for a many influential local artists. You'll enjoy this episode if you have a lot of interests that interconnect and inform the work you do.
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24: Mia Claravall-Reyes on the Culture, Craft and Community of Tattoos
We talk about tattoos, the interesting Filipino culture surrounding it, and developing an artistic style through experience. Mia also shares mental health wisdom from her unique perspective as a tattoo artist. See her work on IG @mialocatattoo
23: Prod.Design & Graphic Design - Creating an Online Show
We talk to production designer Katrish Aristoki & graphic designer Lazir Caluya - both collaborators of Gio on Alas Netflix, an online show created for Netflix Philippines. We touch on process, mindset and strategies in both of these design-centric fields.
22: Writers & Producers on Creating an Online Show
See what it takes to create an online show by hearing from several key staff behind Alas Netflix, a series created for the Netflix Philippines Youtube channel. For this episode we're talking to writers Toni Potenciano & Marga Buenaventura and then producers Alec Rivera & Nina Mendoza. We talk about collaboration, adapting to circumstance, and mental health for busy creatives.
21: Pong Ignacio on Cinematography & Filmmaking
Pong Ignacio is a cinematographer who's worked on films like Heneral Luna, Goyo, Tandem and Liway. He's also built an impressive body of work in the commercial and music video spaces. In this episode we tackle his philosophy in lighting and technology, stories from experiences on specific projects, the beauty of collaboration, and his learnings on mental health from a career in production.
20: Music, Community & Identity in the Bay Area w/ DJ ET IV
Growing up as a Filipino in San Francisco, DJ ET IV shares his insights on music, art, community and identity. He's the resident DJ of Ruby Ibarra & the Balikbayans, a collage artist, a teacher and a photographer. Anyone who's interested in the pride & creative energy of the Filipino diaspora will definitely enjoy this episode.
19: Starting a Production House w/ Pao Abrihan, Gab Quimel & Gio Puyat
18: Red Ollero on Stand-Up Comedy
Red Ollero is a stand-up comedian, host, writer, wrestler and producer. He's sold out theatres and arenas with Comedy Manila, and is currently doing his latest series of shows called Finally! - one of the first live comedy shows since the pandemic. He's gone viral for his characters, sketches, and on-stage presence as the current hypeman of the Leni Robredo rallies.
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17: Financial Literacy w/ Mariel of Simply Finance PH
Take control of your financial matters with Mariel Bitanga of Simply Finance PH. We explore general topics like financial foundations, investing, and self-care. Also we dive into specific questions from a creative and freelancer perspective.