Tito Genova Valiente

Tito Genova Valiente is a public anthropologist, a film critic and film educator. He had his post-graduate studies in the field of Anthropology in Japan. He developed a course on Japanese Cinema in the Japanese Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University and has taught courses on Japanese Film, Culture, Literature and Philippine-Japan Relations. He is a member of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, the oldest and the most prestigious film critics circle in the country, where he once served as its Chair. He is a columnist for Business Mirror and a member of the Executive Committee for Cinema under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He has co-authored books on Japanese cultures in Asia and war memories. In 2015, he was awarded by the Union of Writers of the Philippines the Gawad Balagtas for Achievement in English essay. He is the present director of the Institute of Bikol History and Culture in Ateneo de Naga.