Tim Rone Villanueva

Directing

Tim Rone Villanueva

Born

1996-10-01 (30)

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

TIM RONE VILLANUEVA is an independent Filipino writer, director, and producer from Kawit, Cavite. He is known for his 2017 short film Santa Nena!, a Benilde film capstone project that won the 2018 CineFilipino Best Student Short Film. Working with his filmmaker friends, he produced acclaimed short films such as How to Dress a Mother-naked? (2018), My Mother’s Bicycle (2021), The Gossips of Cicadidae (2021), #bagets (2023), and The Longer I Wait (2024). His 10-minute theater play Mga Nakasusuyang Putahe was staged in the 2017 Short + Sweet Theatre Festival Manila and Shorts & Briefs 9 Theater Festival. It was lauded by Rappler as one of the Best Filipino Theater Plays of 2023. His upcoming fi…

Known for

All the Things I Leave You poster
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At a family-run restaurant in Ilocos, Jorge, a privileged young man, is forced to work alongside Kiko, a street-smart newcomer hired by Jorge's grandfather, Tino, a retired sakada. When Tino suddenly dies, the two discover a hidden cigar box filled with unsent letters and photographs that reveal a decades-old love story between Tino and his best friend, Bong - a bond shaped by migration, forgetting, and sacrifice. As Jorge and Kiko piece together this lost history, their own relationship begins to shift. Set across generations and rooted in Ilokano culture, the series is a quiet exploration of class, intimacy, and the legacies we inherit - and choose to carry forward.

All the Things I Leave You

2025

#teen poster
5.0

After an old wank video of him goes viral on social media, a young food delivery rider in Manila attempts to reclaim his body from societal consumption.

#teen

2023

My Dearest Darling poster
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A lonely queer soul in their early sixties, long devoted to their family’s well-being, is stirred to face the love they once turned away from after a chance encounter at a cemetery.

My Dearest Darling

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Child No. 82 poster
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At a wake, a persevering high school student must prove that he is the 82nd child of the Philippines’ biggest action-fantasy movie star in the hopes of seeing his late father one last time.

Child No. 82

2026

No artwork available
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When an old manananggal (self-segmenting flying beast) mother suffered from a stroke mid-air, her eldest daughter, Chandra, must reunite her estranged aswang (werebeast) siblings and recover her mother’s missing lower half before the fuchsia moon rises—a rare occurrence that happens once every 50 years and the only night their dying mother can pass on an ancient ritual that promises to free them from their aswang curse and make them fully human.

Chandra Catacutan and the Curse of the Fuchsia Moon

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Under the Crescent Moon poster
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A short film about a man who struggles with his sexuality.

Under the Crescent Moon

2022

Film credits

Behind the camera

All the Things I Leave You poster
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At a family-run restaurant in Ilocos, Jorge, a privileged young man, is forced to work alongside Kiko, a street-smart newcomer hired by Jorge's grandfather, Tino, a retired sakada. When Tino suddenly dies, the two discover a hidden cigar box filled with unsent letters and photographs that reveal a decades-old love story between Tino and his best friend, Bong - a bond shaped by migration, forgetting, and sacrifice. As Jorge and Kiko piece together this lost history, their own relationship begins to shift. Set across generations and rooted in Ilokano culture, the series is a quiet exploration of class, intimacy, and the legacies we inherit - and choose to carry forward.

All the Things I Leave You

2025

#teen poster
5.0

After an old wank video of him goes viral on social media, a young food delivery rider in Manila attempts to reclaim his body from societal consumption.

#teen

2023

Child No. 82 poster
NR

At a wake, a persevering high school student must prove that he is the 82nd child of the Philippines’ biggest action-fantasy movie star in the hopes of seeing his late father one last time.

Child No. 82

2026

Child No. 82 poster
NR

At a wake, a persevering high school student must prove that he is the 82nd child of the Philippines’ biggest action-fantasy movie star in the hopes of seeing his late father one last time.

Child No. 82

2026

No artwork available
NR

When an old manananggal (self-segmenting flying beast) mother suffered from a stroke mid-air, her eldest daughter, Chandra, must reunite her estranged aswang (werebeast) siblings and recover her mother’s missing lower half before the fuchsia moon rises—a rare occurrence that happens once every 50 years and the only night their dying mother can pass on an ancient ritual that promises to free them from their aswang curse and make them fully human.

Chandra Catacutan and the Curse of the Fuchsia Moon

—

No artwork available
NR

When an old manananggal (self-segmenting flying beast) mother suffered from a stroke mid-air, her eldest daughter, Chandra, must reunite her estranged aswang (werebeast) siblings and recover her mother’s missing lower half before the fuchsia moon rises—a rare occurrence that happens once every 50 years and the only night their dying mother can pass on an ancient ritual that promises to free them from their aswang curse and make them fully human.

Chandra Catacutan and the Curse of the Fuchsia Moon

—

Under the Crescent Moon poster
NR

A short film about a man who struggles with his sexuality.

Under the Crescent Moon

2022

Paano Bihisan Ang Isang Ina? poster
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Klaudia, a “live show” performer in a whore-house, was rented by Javier, a 12-year old millionaire, to be his mother for a week. Hesitant at first, Klaudia learns to adapt Javier in her world but everything suddenly change when Javier awakes the ghost of Klaudia’s dark past.

Paano Bihisan Ang Isang Ina?

2018

Paano Bihisan Ang Isang Ina? poster
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Klaudia, a “live show” performer in a whore-house, was rented by Javier, a 12-year old millionaire, to be his mother for a week. Hesitant at first, Klaudia learns to adapt Javier in her world but everything suddenly change when Javier awakes the ghost of Klaudia’s dark past.

Paano Bihisan Ang Isang Ina?

2018

Saint Nena! poster
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Santa Nena, a patron saint statue that springs to life every night, suddenly falls in love with a teenager even though God forbids her.

Saint Nena!

2018

Saint Nena! poster
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Santa Nena, a patron saint statue that springs to life every night, suddenly falls in love with a teenager even though God forbids her.

Saint Nena!

2018