​I was born and raised in Manila, Philippines and began my filmmaking journey while undertaking my bachelors degree in Communications Arts at the Ateneo de Manila University in 2002. After graduating with honors, I co-founded the Manila-based production company Brainchild Six and worked as a producer, writer, video editor and director for commercial media content.

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In my journey to pursue directing, I fell into the rabbit hole of production design at the Mowelfund Film Institute where I discovered another way of telling stories. Since then, I've been working as a freelance production designer and set decorator, as well as taking on other roles in the art department while slowly transitioning from working within the Philippine Film and TV landscape into the German motion picture industry in 2009.

 

My role as a production designer and set decorator, is to hold space for the stories I get to tell and create a vision and framework for it and its characters, within the limited production parameters. I love that I get to expand the world beyond the script,  tasked to explore all possible tangible means of visually strengthening what each story deserves to tell.  My goal is to work with the right collaborators that enjoy pushing the boundaries of filmmaking.

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I gladly wear many hats as a filmmaker. I am currently living and working in Berlin, exploring all kinds of adventures in sound, image and space. 

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