
Vrian Pamatmat
Camera
Biography
Vrian Pamatmat is dedicated to practicing cinematography and film direction to tap into the collective memory of Filipinos. He brought with him a wealth of experience and a unique perspective acquired from his roots in theater arts, and now uses the frame as his stage.
Known For

A larger-than-life cosmic woman sent from above must journey through a peculiar post-apocalyptic world with a human in search of something mystifying yet unfathomable to her.
KATHARINA

Marlon, a socially inept and reserved office worker, stumbles upon a mysterious beeper number. Intrigued by curiosity, he reaches out to this mysterious contact, leading to an unexpected bond that intertwines love, longing, and disconnection.
Paging Elise
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In the aftermath of a nuclear war in 2040, the world is ruled and surveilled by Jotorrists, and children are forced to be slaves. Within this hopeless world, two orphans, Bumi, 12, and Ria, 16, find one another and become each other's hope and home.
st[r]ay with me

An amateur film set descends into chaos when a lovers’ quarrel involving a crew member threatens their production.
Green Screen

In a small farming town, a graduating high school girl struggles to convince her distrustful father to allow her to continue her studies in college after her older sister gets pregnant while being sent to the same university.
Champ Green

When a rural village in the Philippines starts to vanish, leaving only carabaos as witnesses, a child plans out a journey to locate his lost father, revealing a secret that defies belief.
Gumamelas Are Still Red

While on an out-of-town birthday party, Bianca, an only child to a single father, receives a phone call about her father’s sudden passing. She spends the next 12 hours arranging the logistics of his funeral while tackling the feeling of an unexpected profound loss.
Sumalunan

After Faith undergoes a procedure to erase her traumatic childhood memories, she decides to confront the truth about her seemingly happy family.
Playhouse

An intoxicated graduating college student confronts her similarly inebriated father for the first time while waiting for him to drive them home.
Goodnight, dad. I love you.

To cope with his mother’s death, Anton, a graduating college student, adopts a pet fish - only to slowly discover how his grief and loneliness causes his emotions to grow more intense as strange fishlike traits appear around his body.
to drown a fish

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)
RAMPAGE! (or the parade)

40 years after having to marry a white man, Angie is deported and reunites with her ex, Badine. As they revisit the places buried by urbanization, they unearth the past and rekindle their love.
if tomorrow never comes

The daughter of an overseas Filipino worker is being haunted by a crow-like humanoid creature, the manifestation of her guilt and burden of life. While trying to run away from it, she eventually learns that the only way to stop the haunting is to embrace and accept the creature.
mariposa

Two friends embark on a quest to uncover allegedly planted marijuana in the backyard of their town's mayor, only to encounter an appalling surprise.
Chongking Express

A film by Kit Munsayac.
An Extra Super Special Mystery Film

In 1980s Bacolod, at the height of Martial Law, Teopisto—a principled yet warmhearted barber known for his strictness and gentle hands—works in a once-prestigious barbershop. Within its wall’s, customers from all walks of life reveal their quiet anxieties, loyalties, and doubts—turning each haircut into a glimpse of a nation in turmoil. As the conversations deepen and tensions rise, Teopisto’s long-held neutrality begins to crack as he is pulled into the very currents of change he once chose to ignore.
The Barber's Chair

Marco, troubled by past trauma and depression, encounters a cheerful boy named Makoy amidst the mysterious disappearance of the moon.
When A Gun Killed My Moon

A short thesis film by Karla Garcia.
MAMAMO

A 68-year-old matandang dalaga suddenly goes through pregnancy when her 19-year-old niece visits her home. As they spend time together, the two women are forced to deal with the cards life has handed them.
Ang Pagbubuntis Ni Ligaya

A short film by Zoe Olavides.