
Martika Ramirez Escobar
Directing
Biography
Martika Ramirez Escobar is a filmmaker-cinematographer based in Manila. Most of her works are reflections on her relationship with cinema. After she graduated with honors from the University of the Philippines, her thesis film competed at the 19th Busan International Film Festival. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents Tokyo, Asian Film Academy, and is a recipient of the Purin Pictures Film Fund.
Known For

Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.
Open Endings

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
Leonor Will Never Die

Grief-striken in urban poor’s hell, a child eager for viral fame and his beautiful, terminal-ill brother embark on a rescue mission to take back a beloved family jeepney in order to survive.
Hey, Hey, Take Care!

When a hopeless romantic transwoman matches with a seemingly perfect guy on a dating app, her chance at love takes a dark turn when he ghosts her, unraveling an intricate web of deceit, lies, and catfishing orchestrated by a sociopathic mastermind.
Where is the Lie?

Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and finds comfort in a love interest through his constant phone calls.
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die

Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury.
Henry
A 12-act anthology film about the lives of several people whose love stories take tragic turns as they try to fill in the void in their respective lives.
Anatomy of Love

A collection of OPM singer-songwriter Zack Tabudlo's most personal experiences. Those experiences are put into stories, stories put into songs, and songs brought to life through a series of fourteen music videos with different narratives about love, heartbreak, happiness, and loneliness. Collectively, these are narratives that demand the viewer to feel, to confront, and to heal.
Zack Tabudlo: Episode

When a budding girl is tasked with identifying the different parts of a flower, she unexpectedly confronts probing questions about her own body.
Blooming!

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.
Stone Heart

When a rich kid slacker meets a working class breadwinner, the two form an unlikely friendship in spite of their differences. With the pandemic and society bearing down on them, they fight back by throwing the biggest illegal rave the lockdown has ever seen.
When This Is All Over

While haunted by memories of a tragic event, a stubborn writer unwittingly unleashes a familiar presence that will stop at nothing to fulfill what it was summoned to do.
Turog

A 15-year-old A-student defies the views of her all-girls Catholic school as she confronts her feelings for a school nun.
A Catholic Schoolgirl

A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.
Where's Grandpa Mê?

A love story between two young men, separated after one of them contracted a highly stigmatized disease. Years later, the guy who abandoned his former lover due to that illness comes back in need of love and acceptance, which he failed to provide in their relationship before.
Love in the Ungodly Hour

A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.
Don’t worry, we still hear you

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The Tigers of Infanta

A grieving widow attempts to find the missing piece of her husband's remains.
If People Such as We Cease to Exist

In 2044, a middle-aged gay man finds himself ageing out of the Manila rave scene. A chance encounter with a mischievous ex-lover changes the tune of his last dance.
When the house lights come on
Minjae is a Korean-Filipino teenager who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood. His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philippines one winter day.