Directing
Max Canlas
Place of birth
Pampanga, Philippines
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
Max Canlas is an independent hybrid filmmaker, graphic designer, and animator. He was a fellow of the Amsterdam International Queer and Migrant Film Festival Academy, ASIADOC Documentary Scriptwriting Workshop, and Ricky Lee’s 19th Film Scriptwriting Workshop. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Film from the University of the Philippines Diliman. In 2020, he co-founded PinkFlamingos Multimedia Production, a visual arts collective that transcends different mediums in the practice of looking, aiding concerned artists translate and produce their genuine vision.
Known for
NRA slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined with animated sequences of an inmate's incarceration story.
Binibining Detainee
2018
NRA 50-year-old trans woman forgets she had gender reassignment surgery upon emerging from coma. Her 7-year-old daughter helps her recollect her memories.
Akalingwan Nang Rosa
2017
NRAn exploration on being and becoming. Fleeting moments of a Filipino queer filmmaker filmed over six years.
A Compendium of Brief Encounters with People I Might Be, Vol. 1
2020
Behind the camera
NRA slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined with animated sequences of an inmate's incarceration story.
Binibining Detainee
2018
NRA 50-year-old trans woman forgets she had gender reassignment surgery upon emerging from coma. Her 7-year-old daughter helps her recollect her memories.
Akalingwan Nang Rosa
2017
NRA 50-year-old trans woman forgets she had gender reassignment surgery upon emerging from coma. Her 7-year-old daughter helps her recollect her memories.
Akalingwan Nang Rosa
2017
NRAn exploration on being and becoming. Fleeting moments of a Filipino queer filmmaker filmed over six years.
A Compendium of Brief Encounters with People I Might Be, Vol. 1
2020