RJ Baculo

RJ Baculo is an award-winning filmmaker, content creator and mental health advocate. He is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.

RJ Baculo is an award-winning filmmaker, comic book creator & mental health advocate. He took his Bachelor of Design in Multimedia Design at the Swinburne University National Institute of Design in Melbourne, Australia. Much later on he received his Bachelor of Philosophy at the Royal & Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Manila and has taken short courses in Clinical Psychology from the Unive

rsity of Queensland in Australia. As a visual storyteller RJ specializes in telling various forms of stories which portray mental health issues that invite discussion, understanding and empathy. His short films & documentaries have been the recipient of many local & international awards. His last iPhone-shot short film “I Am a Black Hole” portraying anxiety disorder has won or been selected at various film festivals all over the world including Italy, Russia, Malaysia, Portugal, Australia, UK, USA and the Philippines. RJ has also written, illustrated and independently-published his own comic books that highlight mental health issues and was nominated two years in a row for Best Writer at the annual Komiket Awards for his comics “Suicide Girl” and “I See Kapre.”

These days RJ spends his passion hours creating videos on YouTube to help empower other aspiring filmmakers to tell their inspiring and powerful stories.

31/07/2026

A bunch of snaps I took from the first night of Laufey's A Matter of Time Global Tour in Melbourne. A memorable, magical and dazzling night indeed! 🎶🎻

📸: RJ Baculo

13/02/2025

Episode 198 was recorded August 8, 2024 and published September 17, 2024. Come with me to Australia and meet RJ Baculo! RJ is an award-winning filmmaker, comic book creator, and mental health ambassador who uses visual storytelling techniques to explore important issues like mental health awareness....

21/12/2024

Recently embarked on an "analog journey" as an experiment to improve mental health by returning to analog and physical media.

Sharing my first foray into 35mm film photography with the inexpensive Ilford Sprite 35-II re-usable film camera. Went for a photo walk around my old hangout in the Prahran / Chapel Street district from my Swinburne Uni days. There is definitely a more involved and mindful process when using 35mm film which is limited to only 24 or 36 shots and doesn't produce instant results (film has to be processed and developed by a film lab) but the experience was wholesome and blissful and I encourage others to try it too.

22/11/2024

Thrilled to be part of the team that produced the award-winning podcast Pitch Bleak honoured here at the Australian Podcast Awards held in Sydney.

You can catch Season 2 right now: https://open.spotify.com/show/4hgiuiAViL61bf6qYTtg3o?si=cTAmxqyERTu4vER8EsCYkw

10/11/2024

An honour to be standing with the other talented filmmakers at the 13th MINA International Smartphone Film Festival and SF3 Smartphone FlickFest in Melbourne. Always a special treat when you see one of your films on the big screen in front of an audience.

Special thanks to Max Schleser Angela Blake for organizing and The Multiverse Syndrome cast and crew for attending.

10/10/2024

"The Multiverse Syndrome" (2024, dir. RJ Baculo)

SYNOPSIS: A young woman who can access multiple versions of herself across the Multiverse is on the run from various malicious forces out to get her while trying to overcome her greatest struggle: loneliness.

20/09/2024

Danny Boyle secretly shot his new zombie sequel film "28 Years Later" on the iPhone 15 Pro making it the biggest budget shot film on a smartphone!

Next summer’s horror blockbuster is the biggest release yet to be shot with iPhones—and not even Apple’s latest model.

17/09/2024

Catch me talking about my latest short film "The Multiverse Syndrome" on the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking with the lovely Susy Botello, Festival Director of the International Mobil Film Festival held in San Diego.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hIBw1WwXFf5hcSetolonF?si=c0wC3lnDR5KO_IsTFCw4Lw&t=186

Episode · SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking · Episode 198 was recorded August 8, 2024 and published September 17, 2024. Come with me to Australia and meet RJ Baculo! RJ is an award-winning filmmaker, comic book creator, and mental health ambassador who uses visual storytelling techniques to explore im...

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