Film & TV
Mia is a Filipino writer based in New Zealand. While she specialises in horror and genre feature films, her work never shies away from cultural and social issues. She also works as a producer and director.
Mia won the prestigious SPADA New Filmmaker award and was a participant in Filipino national artist Ricky Lee's competitive Cinemalaya writing intensive.
Grafted (2024)
Feature film
Role: Writer
Logline: Eight Pan-Asian female filmmakers’ powerful anthology film illuminates the immigrant experience in Aotearoa New Zealand through the lives of eight Asian women connected by the house they call home.
Awards and Festivals: NETPAC Best Feature Film 2022, NZ International Film Festival 2022, Hawaii International Film Festival 2022
Short Film
Role: Producer
Logline: A sexually frustrated young woman is desperate to persuade her vagina to open up when she bumps into an ex-boyfriend.
Awards and Festivals: SXSW Sydney 2024, Show Me Shorts 2024
Vivie (2024)
Kāinga (2022)
Feature Film
Role: Writer
Logline: Eight Pan-Asian female filmmakers’ powerful anthology film illuminates the immigrant experience in Aotearoa New Zealand through the lives of eight Asian women connected by the house they call home.
Awards and Festivals: NETPAC Best Feature Film 2022, NZ International Film Festival 2022, Hawaii International Film Festival 2022
TV Series Episode
Role: Director/Writer
Logline: When a Kiwi-Filipino doctor discovers that her deceased grandmother has become a manananggal, a corrupted witch, she must face her troubled past and make peace with her estranged brother before they both suffer the bloody consequences
Created for TV2 and TVNZ+
Albularyo (2022)
Short animated documentary
Role: Director/Writer
Logline: A social media fight over sexism is the last straw for the liberal daughter of a chauvinistic father.
Awards and Festivals: Loading Docs 2021, Rappler Originals 2021