Myra Angeline Soriaso
Directing
Biography
Myra is a 22-year-old student filmmaker who found her knack for storytelling after discovering Cinematheque Centre Iloilo in August 2018. In 2021, her first short documentary Panambi, co-created with her besties Jane and Katya, premiered internationally at the prestigious Ji.hlava International Film Festival. Now, she will debut as a fiction filmmaker in this year’s QCShorts with A Catholic Schoolgirl, which is also the recipient of Globe Prepaid's GoWATCH Film Lab seed grant. But most importantly, she co-parents a cute cat named Charlie.
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
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
Waking up in a nightmare before the sunrise of December 30, 2020, the indigenous community of the Tumandok was suddenly surrounded by fear. Panambi features the stories of bright memories of the past and the despair of having now as a mere memory of the future without a trace of justice; how they lived and what they lived for. A decades-long struggle is shot, one in the lens of a mother paralyzed by fear; another from a mother raged and moved by fear—both looking forward to a better tomorrow.