Ven
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Biography
Ven (Venice Lazatin) is a filmmaker who studied BA Film at UP Diliman. She is primarily focused on producing and production management. Nevertheless, her work continues to span across the other departments as she views filmmaking as a holistic process. Her recent producing work, Playhouse (2025), was a recipient of FDCP’s SFAP. Ven believes that filmmaking can be an act of resistance and an influential tool for expression.
Known For
Reyna, head of the school choir and daughter of the Parish Office Chair is rattled once her meticulously orchestrated music group is disrupted by the spontaneous and unorthodox new pianist, Sam.
tugtog
A delayed UP student faces obstacles when enlisting in her final PE class because she is a dinosaur!
Daynasor
A call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The two become stuck in a limbo as they accidentally stop time at the same moment, leading them to confront the frozen world together.
Moonlighters
After Faith undergoes a procedure to erase her traumatic childhood memories, she decides to confront the truth about her seemingly happy family.
Playhouse
A thesis short film by Kyle Demot
when you're gone tomorrow dad, i'll bring you sunflowers from home
A graduating college student and her ill grandmother explore the nuances of their so-so relationship when grandmother suddenly requests help to acquire a vintage sewing machine. As they accumulate funds, the two realize their occasional bond through a challenging journey alongside grandmother's declining health.
Ang Puting Sinulid
An artist is struck with a mysterious condition that fills up her lungs with water. As she is called to her imminent death, her sister serves as her salvation.
Daluyong
Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres’ meticulous yet generous approach is a synthesis of the personal and the political. Assembling fragments of discordant images and murmuring voices, this inventive parable creates a present that appears alien and a future that feels familiar.
Room in a Crowd
Kamil confronts her personal struggles when deciding to devote her life to serve the people in the countryside. Her sacrifice is remembered through an open letter filled with rage, grief, and revolutionary fervor.
Kamil
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
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
A short film by Samantha Santelices.
guniguni
Facing the imminent death of her people, the leader of a group of young rebels must decide whether she will take the risk of freeing her people by challenging their oppressors: an aging tyrannical king and his loyal knight.
Sa Ilalim ng Impyerno
A short narrative film about Cade, a young boy who quietly witnesses the late stage of his parents certain separation.