Leah Borromeo
@borromeo.bsky.social
[She/They]
Grierson-nominated, Oscar long-listed documentary filmmaker & journalist
Climate Symphony originator
Co-founder, Disobedient Films
Head of Partnerships, The Lead
Assoc Lecturer, MA Filmmaking, Goldsmiths
Visuals Editor, TRF
I like your dog.
Grierson-nominated, Oscar long-listed documentary filmmaker & journalist
Climate Symphony originator
Co-founder, Disobedient Films
Head of Partnerships, The Lead
Assoc Lecturer, MA Filmmaking, Goldsmiths
Visuals Editor, TRF
I like your dog.
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Leah Borromeo
@borromeo.bsky.social
· Nov 16
So basically, we're all trying to revive 2009 Twitter, and we have about ten years of good times here before a tech toddler buys it and tries to colonise Jupiter?
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A director pal has been working for decades with big name clients. Doing huge stuff, including international shoots. If you live in the UK, you will have seen their stuff.
They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter.
That's how bad it is.
They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter.
That's how bad it is.
NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
July 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A director pal has been working for decades with big name clients. Doing huge stuff, including international shoots. If you live in the UK, you will have seen their stuff.
They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter.
That's how bad it is.
They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter.
That's how bad it is.
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social dad-dancing to Down With Webster when the Liberals won the Canadian election is the thing you need to watch today youtu.be/FUqONLOJE0U?...
Carney dances to Down With Webster after election win
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
April 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social dad-dancing to Down With Webster when the Liberals won the Canadian election is the thing you need to watch today youtu.be/FUqONLOJE0U?...
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Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm
The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"
Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.
Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"
Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.
Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm
The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"
Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.
Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"
Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.
Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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Hottest and Coolest Doc 100
The Mortician of Manila by Leah Borromeo
🎬📽️🎞️
youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now for the month of July. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
The Mortician of Manila by Leah Borromeo
🎬📽️🎞️
youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now for the month of July. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
April 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hottest and Coolest Doc 100
The Mortician of Manila by Leah Borromeo
🎬📽️🎞️
youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now for the month of July. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
The Mortician of Manila by Leah Borromeo
🎬📽️🎞️
youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now for the month of July. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
To mark Rodrigo Duterte's arrest at the behest of the International Criminal Court, here's my @aljazeera.com film about a mortician at the receiving end of the bodies of many of his victims. Orly ran a 24hr mortuary in Manila's Caloocan district. youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM?...
The Mortician of Manila: Inside the Philippines' 'war on drugs' | Witness
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
March 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
To mark Rodrigo Duterte's arrest at the behest of the International Criminal Court, here's my @aljazeera.com film about a mortician at the receiving end of the bodies of many of his victims. Orly ran a 24hr mortuary in Manila's Caloocan district. youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM?...
If you want to see what's going to happen in America, you should really look at what has happened in the Philippines. It's the forerunner, the test bed, for the collapse of democracy.
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
If you want to see what's going to happen in America, you should really look at what has happened in the Philippines. It's the forerunner, the test bed, for the collapse of democracy.
From my very limited experience of academia, it appears every j-school in the UK is offering a kind of half-price offer for courses bec numbers are down. Higher education is cost prohibitive. At the other end, parents can't afford early years childcare. It's almost as if education should be free.
February 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
From my very limited experience of academia, it appears every j-school in the UK is offering a kind of half-price offer for courses bec numbers are down. Higher education is cost prohibitive. At the other end, parents can't afford early years childcare. It's almost as if education should be free.
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Come work with us: +972 Magazine is hiring a podcast producer - https://www.972mag.com/come-work-with-us-972-magazine-is-hiring-podcast-producer/
Come work with us: +972 Magazine is hiring a podcast producer
Apply to join our team!
www.972mag.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Come work with us: +972 Magazine is hiring a podcast producer - https://www.972mag.com/come-work-with-us-972-magazine-is-hiring-podcast-producer/
A reminder that this Masterclass is happening tonight at Goldsmiths - for current students, Oldsmiths and friends www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
Adam Curtis at Goldsmiths
The legendary filmmaker Adam Curtis is coming to give a Masterclass at Goldsmiths.
www.gold.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A reminder that this Masterclass is happening tonight at Goldsmiths - for current students, Oldsmiths and friends www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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Wow sounds serious.
February 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Wow sounds serious.
Reminder that USAID actively opposed South African apartheid. Just in case you were wondering about possible reasons why it's in DOGE's crosshairs adst.org/2021/06/amer...
American People’s Foreign Policy: USAID’s Role in Apartheid South Africa – Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training
adst.org
February 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reminder that USAID actively opposed South African apartheid. Just in case you were wondering about possible reasons why it's in DOGE's crosshairs adst.org/2021/06/amer...
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US tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been paused before they ever took effect, ahead of more negotiations on security and trade.
Trump agrees to a one-month pause on Mexico, Canada tariffs
What about China?
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
US tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been paused before they ever took effect, ahead of more negotiations on security and trade.
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If Trump's tariff on Chinese imports actually happens tomorrow, the price of all the cheap shit Americans (especially poor shoppers) purchase will go up. And it won't just be 10%. A quick explainer on the de minimis loophole that might close tomorrow:
www.theverge.com/news/605483/...
www.theverge.com/news/605483/...
Shein and Temu depend on a 100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close
Trump is promising to close the de minimis exemption.
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If Trump's tariff on Chinese imports actually happens tomorrow, the price of all the cheap shit Americans (especially poor shoppers) purchase will go up. And it won't just be 10%. A quick explainer on the de minimis loophole that might close tomorrow:
www.theverge.com/news/605483/...
www.theverge.com/news/605483/...
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Europeans should realise how serious an attack on the Canadian economy the Trump admininstration's 25% tariffs represent - and that we are next.
The last 10 EU countries that have not yet fully ratified CETA (the EU-Canada trade agreement) should do so rapidly to help our Canadian friends.
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The last 10 EU countries that have not yet fully ratified CETA (the EU-Canada trade agreement) should do so rapidly to help our Canadian friends.
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February 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Europeans should realise how serious an attack on the Canadian economy the Trump admininstration's 25% tariffs represent - and that we are next.
The last 10 EU countries that have not yet fully ratified CETA (the EU-Canada trade agreement) should do so rapidly to help our Canadian friends.
1/
The last 10 EU countries that have not yet fully ratified CETA (the EU-Canada trade agreement) should do so rapidly to help our Canadian friends.
1/
Love seeing presenters on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social who were bootlicking the Trump administration last week falling very, very silent about it all once his goons outed themselves as Nazis. Esp the one whose grand aunt was a known anti-semite.
January 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Love seeing presenters on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social who were bootlicking the Trump administration last week falling very, very silent about it all once his goons outed themselves as Nazis. Esp the one whose grand aunt was a known anti-semite.
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Sam Altman is washed - the Mark Sanchez of Silicon Valley. His butt fumble moment was releasing the "Operator" agent that doesn't work at all 5 days before DeepSeek blew up.
Much like Sanchez, Altman has outstayed his welcome, and will be seen as a historic bust.
Yes, Silicon Valley is the Jets.
Much like Sanchez, Altman has outstayed his welcome, and will be seen as a historic bust.
Yes, Silicon Valley is the Jets.
January 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sam Altman is washed - the Mark Sanchez of Silicon Valley. His butt fumble moment was releasing the "Operator" agent that doesn't work at all 5 days before DeepSeek blew up.
Much like Sanchez, Altman has outstayed his welcome, and will be seen as a historic bust.
Yes, Silicon Valley is the Jets.
Much like Sanchez, Altman has outstayed his welcome, and will be seen as a historic bust.
Yes, Silicon Valley is the Jets.
Another reminder that anything you do, an Asian guy can probably do better.
Breaking news: The sudden popularity of a Chinese artificial intelligence model called DeepSeek pummeled stocks Monday, with the tech-focused Nasdaq index down nearly 3.5 percent at the market open.
China’s DeepSeek AI app sends U.S. tech stocks reeling
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index lost nearly 4 percent in early trading Monday, with chipmaker Nvidia down nearly 12 percent.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Another reminder that anything you do, an Asian guy can probably do better.
This vibe. All day. All night.
January 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This vibe. All day. All night.
@curley303.bsky.social found you, amigo
January 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@curley303.bsky.social found you, amigo
@wendymcmurdo.bsky.social found you!
January 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
@wendymcmurdo.bsky.social found you!
@vimeo.com Question re your "one time" educational discount. Your AI is insisting that I can't apply it to my existing account, one that I've had for 15+ years. Yet I know other lecturers who have managed to apply it to theirs. I have opened a ticket, but also hoped you'd have answers here. Thx.
January 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
@vimeo.com Question re your "one time" educational discount. Your AI is insisting that I can't apply it to my existing account, one that I've had for 15+ years. Yet I know other lecturers who have managed to apply it to theirs. I have opened a ticket, but also hoped you'd have answers here. Thx.
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NEW: TikTok users are protesting a potential ban by joining Red Note, aka Xiaohongshu, another Chinese app entirely in Mandarin.
“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...
“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
www.wired.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: TikTok users are protesting a potential ban by joining Red Note, aka Xiaohongshu, another Chinese app entirely in Mandarin.
“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...
“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...
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As @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports, Chinese Xiaohongshu users are engaging in a kind of cultural engage with their new English-speaking counterparts. You have to imagine this is exactly the opposite of what lawmakers wanted when they tried to ban TikTok lol
January 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports, Chinese Xiaohongshu users are engaging in a kind of cultural engage with their new English-speaking counterparts. You have to imagine this is exactly the opposite of what lawmakers wanted when they tried to ban TikTok lol