Kumukulong Dugo

UNSPOKEN DISTANCE

2024

A young couple, "Kate" and "Luke", sit in their dimly lit living room. The mood is heavy with silence. The air between them is thick with unspoken words, tension hanging like a storm about to break.

The Man In My Window

Seemingly resigned to a life of passivity, a woman in a dysfunctional relationship reflects on her attempts to avoid the gaze of the man watching through her window.

Static Room

2024

An AI chatbot is programmed to think that it's a teenage girl.

Occurrences of Questionable Significance

2020 · ★ 10

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Pink Pill

2017 · ★ 1

A teenage girl is outed as lesbian in gossip that spreads quickly across her school. She finds herself judged and insulted by her peers, and coerced into trying to change herself by someone she took to be her friend.

The Art of Being Normal

2019 · ★ 1

David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school, Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long, and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means.

The Audition

2024

A good scene partner is everything.

FiSH

2023 · ★ 10

After distancing himself from his off-screen boyfriend, an IT graduate (and wannabe painter) finds himself on a suburban odyssey to get an old schoolmate's laptop fixed, accompanied by his life-long imaginary friend: a walking talking goldfish.

DIABLO

2023

DIABLO is a 2021 short film about a masked stalker who hunts down his victims like prey and ends up driving them into a state of paranoia and insanity.

Lovesick

2023

While getting ready for a special anniversary dinner, Zoe’s boyfriend receives a suggestive text message from an unknown woman. When he suddenly leaves, Zoe turns to Google to guide her on how to confront him and/or get the revenge she believes she deserves.

Face

2023

Running away from your demons won’t do anything. In a desperate bid to escape what she believes is a relentless stalker, a troubled girl battles escalating paranoia, and chilling noises, only to uncover that the haunting presence she fears the most resides within her own reflection. Face (2023) by Stephanie Mavi Garcia Panclas (SMGP), is their first horror/psychological thriller short film. Face, follows a character played by Vanessa Lopez, 19, in which she finds herself feeling stalked, watched, and followed. When she finally faces the stalker, things take a chilling turn.

Totality

I am working on the full version since this was originally made for an assignment. Looking back, I'm a little embarrassed, but this is essentially my first "narrative" project of many to soon come, haha. I will always hold this corny little thing near to my heart, and I hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for the full version, and maybe you can see how much I've improved.