Nix Vergara
Acting
Biography
Nix Vergara is a QC based multidisciplinary artist. She is a filmmaker, an actress, a visual artist, and a writer. She is currently establishing her own production house (Sineninix.) with several films she directed, To Immaculate Whore (2025), Sa Lambong ng Lumot Nagtago si Kaka (2025), and Where The Cave Ends (2026). Her short experimental film Manila Behind the City Lights (2024) was selected to screen for Pugnant Film Series in Greece in 2025. Her film Where The Cave Ends (2026) was a finalist for Sinepiyu XVIII: DIWA "Mula sa Lente ng Katauhan". She won the Best Actress award for 20th Mise-En-Scene Film Festival University of the Assumption for her performance in When the Credits Finally Roll (2025) She is a feminist who explores gender themes often bending the images and confronting the norm in the patriarchal society, and uplifting the matriarchy. She is also an advocate for alternative cinema and she believes that the filmmaking and film schools in the Philippines should explore communal practices with a necessity to get deeply rooted with the community.
Known For
Jim, a journalist seeking the truth about the Babaylan in a cave who is presented by the media as responsible for the disappearance of a colonel in the area. As Jim wanders in the cave, he will find a truth that will set him free.
Where The Cave Ends
A burned-out man trapped in a job he never wanted receives a mysterious flower, leading him on a surreal journey where rediscovering his passion for filmmaking may be his only escape.
When the Credits Finally Roll
A queer film about a daughter who lives in a shaky relationship with her mother. Despite being mother and daughter, they have their own differences: The mother, conservative and religious, while Jamie is an epitome of a daughter who is trying to escape from the conservative norm. Her mother is a representation of a woman who never gets to explore her womanhood because of the system and societal pressures and expectations that pulls her away from enjoying her gender. The daughter cuts this generational curse through exploring her womanhood.
Where Lichen Blooms
An inmate jealous of a tree's freedom tastes the destruction of his own thought. This feminist film criticizes how patriarchy perceives women objectively and gruesomely oversexualizes feminine arcs. Confined to their own societal standards, this film shows that the controlling habit of the patriarchy came from the place of envy.
To Immaculate Whore
Dalena's difficulty in being comfortable with her entire skin, body, and thirst for people was solved by her friend Liyang.