KHAVN De La Cruz is considered as the father of Philippine digital filmmaking. He has made twenty-two features and seventy-three short films, most of which have received prizes, given retrospectives, and presented in international film festivals. He has served as a jury member in the Clermont-Ferrand (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Jeonju (Korea), Jihlava (Czech Republic), & Berlinale (Germany) film festivals. He is the president of the independent film company Filmless Films and the festival director of .MOV, the first digital film festival in the Philippines. Khavn has won for his poetry and fiction in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, where he has also served in the jury. He has been selected twice in the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop as a Writing Fellow. Khavn has received the Dean’s Award for Literature from his alma mater, the Ateneo De Manila University, where he also has lectured. His books of poetry and fiction are published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing and the University of the Philippines Press, among them is “Ultraviolins”, the first postmodern book of stories in Filipino. Khavn is an acclaimed composer, songwriter, singer & pianist who has performed all over the world and has made several albums, including soundtracks for internationally-renowned films. He has written & composed several rock operas staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Tanghalang Ateneo. Khavn garnered awards in the Yamaha Electone Festival and has also received citations from the Metropop Song Festival, the Ateneo Songwriting Fest, and the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (New Jersey). He is the bandleader of The Brockas and has also been part of the jury of the Awit Awards. Khavn owned and managed Oracafe, a cultural hub for Philippine writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other artists in the late 90s.