YCP 2025 Fellow
Alyssandra Maxine
From the landscapes of Phillipines
Current Practice
Independent writer and editor pursuing meaningful cross-cultural collaborations and experimentations in the forms of criticism, particularly within Southeast Asia.
Bio
Alyssandra Maxine is the managing editor of MARG1N, a print-only independent Southeast Asian film magazine based in Cambodia (@marg1nmag) and distributed internationally. She also assists the Center for New Cinema, a pedagogical initiative within the Philippines for research, events, and publications.
Her previous bylines include Film Comment, Streamlined, and Eastern Kicks. She has been a fellow for film critic labs in QCinema—later serving as a mentor—, Udine’s Far East Film Festival, and the Flaherty Seminar.
She loves learning from strangers, working with friends, improvisation, hybrid forms of art, long walks, short bios, and contradictions.
Focus Areas for Exploration
I’m interested in seeing how film criticism can be intertwined with hypertext–think Marker’s Immemory in something like Twine or a 3D space.
Community-building, especially without a physical space, also challenges me, so I’d like to see anyone tackle that paradigm. But I come into this program without any expectations, as I prefer to be surprised while listening intently.