Jay Borilla
Editing
Biography
Jay Borilla is a senior year student filmmaker from the UP Film Institute of UP Diliman. Born on May 20, 2003 under a conservative and fanatically religious household, he aims to leverage filmmaking to break free from the stifling conditions of his upbringing and create films that are as liberated as how he aspires himself, and other suppressed individuals and communities, to be. Since 2023, he has specialized on numerous film post-productions, including QCinema official selections RAMPAGE! (o ang parada) (2024), Yelo (2025), and Honey, My Love, So Sweet. (2025), where the latter was also selected as part of the 78th Locarno Film Festival. He also edited Goodnight, dad. I love you. (2025), UP Film Institute's Likha Adarna 2025 Best Thesis and Coding si Papa (2025), an FDCP Sine Kabataan 2025 finalist and an official selection to the Hokkaido International Film Festival 2026. His own notable works include genesis (2024) and ipith (2025), where the former's named as a finalist in the 37th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video, and won the Best Experimental Film award in Far Eastern University’s 17th Sinepiyu Film Festival. His films highlight the potential of low-budget experimental films to foster larger-than-life stories that break free from the conventional constraints of standard narrative films, delving into a multiplicity of intrapersonal spaces depicted through very strong themes, visuals and editing, and soundscapes.
Known For
After a violent encounter with the police during a rally, a young boy is offered possible release by his detainees at great personal cost.
Sugod
A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in the form of an unanswered phone call.
bz...
In a small rural town, 9-year-old Gelo comes up with a plan to earn enough money to buy his tricycle-driver father a day off—so he can watch Gelo perform a poem written just for him at the school’s poetry contest.
Papa's Coding Day
With the world ending in ten days, a flamboyant gay worker endures a string of brutal jobs in a collapsing Manila, desperate to earn enough for a one-way bus ticket to freedom.
Fidel Ten Days Before the End of the World—The Universe Rather
In 7 episodes, a subject traverses through various phases of existence. He fully explores different facets of the human condition— a calm birth, a stifled growth, an outrage against injustice, a cumulation of scars, and the return to innocence.
genesis
After Faith undergoes a procedure to erase her traumatic childhood memories, she decides to confront the truth about her seemingly happy family.
Playhouse
A newly-turned sixty-year-old woman who just obtained her senior citizen card reunites with a long-lost high school friend, sparking a journey of nostalgia, self-discovery, and rekindling romance.
Sisenta!
Three former high school best friends reunite four years later in college. Their short reunion grows tenser as they recall something from their past.
21st Birthday
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.
'til my dying breath.
milk
In the cramped heat of a thrift shop in Cubao, the air is thick with the unspoken desires of Jessa and Candy. But when a foreigner arrives with the promise of America, their lives are led astray.
Yelo
A working student bustles through scorching Manila, pushed to a cycle of exhaustion as the disparities of a distant world of capitalist excess kindle a common tenderness.
ipith
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.