Film und Literatur: Spannung und Übersetzung

Tanya Yuson is a founding partner and Chief Creative Development officer of BASE Entertainment, a studio based out of Jakarta and Singapore that develops, finances, produces and distributes content for the Indonesian market, as well as for the international market. She is the Executive Producer and writer for the Netflix Original Anime Series Trese, Prime Video’s Comedy Island for the Philippine and Indonesian version, and co-showrunner (Executive Producer and Head Writer) for Cigarette Girl, Indonesia’s first Netflix Original Series, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival and won Best-Miniseries at the 2024 Seoul International Drama Awards.

Currently, BASE has a slate of projects in varying stages of development and pre-production, including a slate of movies that are co-productions with CJ Entertainment and Ivanhoe, the first of which is Joko Anwar’s film Impetigore, which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2020 and won the top prize at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea. Aside from Trese, BASE also has its live-action series Quarantine Tales on Netflix, as well as the films Respati, My Annoying Brother, and The Adventures of Sherina 2. Prior to founding BASE, Tanya spent 14 years in New York and Los Angeles where she worked in development for studios such as New Line Cinema and The Walt Disney Company. She then went on to be a producer and an executive at Millar Gough Ink, a production company whose principals were Al Gough and Miles Millar, where she worked on company projects such as Smallville for TV and feature films such as The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Hannah Montana: The Movie and I Am Number Four, to name a few. Tanya was also a consultant for the Dino de Laurentiis company in Los Angeles.

Angelo R. Lacuesta is a novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He has written more than ten books and has won numerous national awards for his writing, including the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award, the NVM Gonzalez Award, several Palanca Memorial Awards, Philippines Graphic Awards, and National Book Awards, among others. He has represented the Philippines at several international festivals and conferences concerning literature, cinema, and culture.

His most recent publication is the novel IRÔ, published by Milflores Publishing in 2025, with a forthcoming collection of new short fiction, entitled Affidavit, scheduled for the same year. IRÔ was selected as one of ten novels to be presented for possible film adaptation at the “Books at Berlinale” section of the 2025 Berlinale Film Festival.

In 2024 he wrote and produced the film An Errand, based on a short story he wrote, for the Cinemalaya Film Festival, one of Asia’s most important festivals for independent cinema. The film was also selected as part of the Bright Futures section of the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). In 2025, Song of the Fireflies, a film he also wrote and produced, had its international premiere at the Manila International Film Festival in Los Angeles, U.S.A., where it earned audience awards for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.

He is co-managing director of Good Intentions Books, an independent publishing house based in Manila. He is editor-at-large at the Esquire magazine Philippines and is the current president of the Philippine Centre of PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists) International.