Thop Nazareno

Directing

Thop Nazareno

Born

1985-01-01 (41)

Place of birth

Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Thop Nazareno is a multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker best known for his two critically acclaimed Cinemalaya films, “Kiko Boksingero” and “Edward.” Thop is the writer and director of the TV5 series “Niña Niño.”

Known for

The Chanters poster
NR

The Chanters is a comedy-drama film about Sarah Mae, a 12 year old school girl, the grand-daughter of the last chanter of the Panay Bukidnon tribe. She obsesses with pop culture and readies herself for the visit of a sensational TV star to her school. As she perfects her dance, her grandfather, Lolo Ramon suffers the onset of dementia. As her Lolo starts losing his precious memories, Sarah Mae is tasked to help him complete the last of the remaining 12 epics, their tribe’s vanishing tradition.

The Chanters

2017

Edward poster
6.8

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his playground, not knowing that it will be his source of liberation in the end.

Edward

2019

Apol of my Ai poster
NR

A young boy falls in love with his teacher, only to discover a shocking and awkward twist: his main romantic rival for her affection is his own father.

Apol of my Ai

2026

No artwork available
NR

A 12-act anthology film about the lives of several people whose love stories take tragic turns as they try to fill in the void in their respective lives.

Anatomy of Love

2015

Kuya Wes poster
7.0

Kuya Wes, a timid remittance clerk, feels like he does not exist, except when he is working at the remittance center. He is mostly ignored by his younger brother Raf and his family. His days are only brightened when his customer Erika comes in every month. One day, his life changes as Erika’s overseas husband leaves her. Wes decides to help her from his own pocket. His “relationship” with Erika and his friction with Raf starts to change him.

Kuya Wes

2018

The Ride poster
NR

Set in the roads of Manila, the rural, the sea, and the “underground”, the film tells the story of Leo, the son, forced to grant his dying mother’s request to accompany his estranged father, Barry, to come home.

The Ride

2025

Behind the camera

The Chanters poster
NR

The Chanters is a comedy-drama film about Sarah Mae, a 12 year old school girl, the grand-daughter of the last chanter of the Panay Bukidnon tribe. She obsesses with pop culture and readies herself for the visit of a sensational TV star to her school. As she perfects her dance, her grandfather, Lolo Ramon suffers the onset of dementia. As her Lolo starts losing his precious memories, Sarah Mae is tasked to help him complete the last of the remaining 12 epics, their tribe’s vanishing tradition.

The Chanters

2017

Edward poster
6.8

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his playground, not knowing that it will be his source of liberation in the end.

Edward

2019

Edward poster
6.8

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his playground, not knowing that it will be his source of liberation in the end.

Edward

2019

Apol of my Ai poster
NR

A young boy falls in love with his teacher, only to discover a shocking and awkward twist: his main romantic rival for her affection is his own father.

Apol of my Ai

2026

Apol of my Ai poster
NR

A young boy falls in love with his teacher, only to discover a shocking and awkward twist: his main romantic rival for her affection is his own father.

Apol of my Ai

2026

No artwork available
NR

A 12-act anthology film about the lives of several people whose love stories take tragic turns as they try to fill in the void in their respective lives.

Anatomy of Love

2015

Kuya Wes poster
7.0

Kuya Wes, a timid remittance clerk, feels like he does not exist, except when he is working at the remittance center. He is mostly ignored by his younger brother Raf and his family. His days are only brightened when his customer Erika comes in every month. One day, his life changes as Erika’s overseas husband leaves her. Wes decides to help her from his own pocket. His “relationship” with Erika and his friction with Raf starts to change him.

Kuya Wes

2018

The Ride poster
NR

Set in the roads of Manila, the rural, the sea, and the “underground”, the film tells the story of Leo, the son, forced to grant his dying mother’s request to accompany his estranged father, Barry, to come home.

The Ride

2025

The Ride poster
NR

Set in the roads of Manila, the rural, the sea, and the “underground”, the film tells the story of Leo, the son, forced to grant his dying mother’s request to accompany his estranged father, Barry, to come home.

The Ride

2025

Eyeball poster
4.0

A vain man is out to meet a woman he met on Facebook for the first time. While waiting for her, he comes upon a naive guy whom he teaches his ways to attract women. But the vain man may need to learn something more.

Eyeball

2014

Eyeball poster
4.0

A vain man is out to meet a woman he met on Facebook for the first time. While waiting for her, he comes upon a naive guy whom he teaches his ways to attract women. But the vain man may need to learn something more.

Eyeball

2014

Kiko, the Boxer poster
10.0

Kiko, an 11-year-old boy left aimlessly alone with his nanny after the recent death of his mother, rekindles a long lost relationship with his father in an attempt to find a new lease on life.

Kiko, the Boxer

2017