
Allyson Ramirez
Acting
Biography
Allyson Ramirez is an artist-filmmaker from UP Film Institute. Their artistic practice is influenced by their background in art, design, film, and performing arts. Ally's works navigate themes of queer love and worldly curiosities grounded in the shifts of the Philippine contemporary landscape, with experimentations on the filmic form.
Known For

After a long night shift, a single mother comes home to her six-year-old daughter asking a question about her father that she wasn’t prepared to answer.
Mango Skin

An overheard imitative playing of a tarot reading forces Tasha to confront all her suppressed life tensions in an overnight house party—including her admiration for her fond rival Mela.
Tarototu

3 different individuals from the past, the present, and the future get trapped inside a room where they must work together to find their way out.
Time Out

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by a plausible saleslady in a very unusual IT retail shop.
huhumcrediTT

In a Pacmanesque system, a P20 coin, Filipino fellowmen, and a family navigate their way through the glitching “mahal” (love), “mahal” (expensive), “mahal kita” (I love you), and “mahal kita” (earning is difficult).
barya lang po sa umaga (mahal, mahal kita)

Estranged friends Kia and Maria face an unexpected reunion in the chapel of their old all-girls' Catholic school, where they are forced to redress feelings left unspoken in their mutual fixations on the Virgin Mary.
Halikana

Pusanggala, a teen with the likeness of a stray cat, ventures off into the city with her distant brother to find a place for themselves long after their parent's separation— yet faced with the barricades of endless construction, she is forced to confront the memory of the places she once called home.
Pusanggala!

When a young woman is thrilled to finally fulfill her family’s long-time dream of becoming a teacher, a surprising turn of events reveals her own desires.
SUFFER EXTRA
Before graduating, high school sweethearts Ralph and Angelo face their final test: the rise of AI, love in turmoil, and the choices that could define their futures.