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Raya Martin

Raya Martin

Directing

Biography

Raya Martin was born in 1984 in Manila, Philippines. He is a director and writer, known for Independencia (2009), Autohystoria (2007) and La última película (2013).

Known For

Smaller and Smaller Circles
6.0

A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.

Smaller and Smaller Circles

2017
Salvage
5.0

A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in the deeps of the forest, where more mystery and danger lay in wait.

Salvage

2015
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
4.8

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

2010
Manila
6.4

A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. For the "Night" segment, Pascual portrays the role of Philip, who works as a bodyguard for a mayor's son. The bodyguard believes that his boss considers him as part of the family but after a shooting incident, he realizes his real worth to his boss. As he struggles to hide, he is slowly consumed by the claws of darkness lurking the city.

Manila

2009
Jeonju Digital Project 2012
N/A

No description available.

Jeonju Digital Project 2012

2012
How to Disappear Completely
5.8

A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father relishes in alcohol and history. She decides to put on a stage play based on an old Filipino film about a family who disappears in the mountains during the war. But soon after the performance, she vanishes from the car, prompting her parents to look for her in the woods. One by one, they all start to disappear.

How to Disappear Completely

2013
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5.5

A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions. There, they explore the island and retire in a rustic mansion used once to make silent films. Outside the city, the woods and sea become a meeting place for more movie personalities and it all becomes a celebration of what was left behind.

The Great Cinema Party

2012
Independencia
5.0

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home.

Independencia

2010
Death of Nintendo
6.4

The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games and wrestle with new dilemmas – puppy love, circumcision and other horror stories.

Death of Nintendo

2020
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
6.7

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

2005
Now Showing
7.4

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest districts with her busy mother and entrepreneurial aunt. Years later, she is still the same girl enamoured with television, now also tending to her aunt’s stall selling pirated DVD movies. Elsewhere, there survives footages of a movie done before the war.

Now Showing

2008
The Last Film
6.5

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

The Last Film

2013
Good Night, Spain
4.8

In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside and meets a lost woman. During the trip, they discover a museum housing the expatriated paintings of the most important Filipino artist of the revolution. Eventually, the Spanish couple disappears toward their colony. Inspired by one of the earliest teleportation accounts, which happened between the Philippines and Mexico during the colonial period.

Good Night, Spain

2011
Next Attraction
5.5

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layered making-of movie.

Next Attraction

2008
Years When I Was a Child Outside
N/A

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

Years When I Was a Child Outside

2008
Track Projections
4.2

Impressionistic images from a train ride.

Track Projections

2007
Aos Sí
N/A

Kinet's Halloween Omnibus feature.

Aos Sí

2017
Breather
N/A

A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence and mortality.

Breather

2011
Shock Me Shokoy
N/A

No description available.

Shock Me Shokoy

2017
Long Live Philippine Cinema!
5.8

Mother gets a visit.

Long Live Philippine Cinema!

2009