JT Trinidad

In Bacolod, Kara feels a sudden surge of intense body heat as a distant rumble echoes from the mountains.

After a violent confrontation with his father, a teenager runs away from home and wanders the outskirts of Manila. There, he meets a fellow runaway, and they find something that feels like home.

It’s the last day of high school. Three misfits: Mike, Jeremy, and Marie are tasked to edit the graduation video. As they review the footage, their batchmate’s video contains a confession that their principal harassed her. The group has to decide whether or not to expose the issue as each deals with their own secrets.

As a child was innocently playing with their friends, an interruption comes along.

A silly bromance sparks out of the closeness of two laidback high school boys, Maki and Kaloy. When a night of reckless drinking with their friends leads them to share a bed together, they discover the true nature of their bromance and now must decide whether to embrace this or risk losing each other's friendship.

In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.

In Bacolod, Kara feels a sudden surge of intense body heat as a distant rumble echoes from the mountains.

After a violent confrontation with his father, a teenager runs away from home and wanders the outskirts of Manila. There, he meets a fellow runaway, and they find something that feels like home.

It’s the last day of high school. Three misfits: Mike, Jeremy, and Marie are tasked to edit the graduation video. As they review the footage, their batchmate’s video contains a confession that their principal harassed her. The group has to decide whether or not to expose the issue as each deals with their own secrets.

As a child was innocently playing with their friends, an interruption comes along.

As a child was innocently playing with their friends, an interruption comes along.

A silly bromance sparks out of the closeness of two laidback high school boys, Maki and Kaloy. When a night of reckless drinking with their friends leads them to share a bed together, they discover the true nature of their bromance and now must decide whether to embrace this or risk losing each other's friendship.

In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.

In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.

Along a river that undergoes a major change, Baby, a middle-aged transwoman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. As the people around Baby start to disappear, she realizes that she has been left behind in a stagnating city.

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)

A journey to someone's personal gallery and an unsent letter.

A journey to someone's personal gallery and an unsent letter.

40 years after having to marry a white man, Angie is deported and reunites with her ex, Badine. As they revisit the places buried by urbanization, they unearth the past and rekindle their love.

When his beloved daughter runs away with an engkanto, a lonely old man attempts to summon his daughter back home through her favorite dish.

A science high school graduate turned filmmaker reimagines the sudden death of their grandfather with Newton’s laws of motion. With repurposed home videos and mobile footage collected in 7 years, it explores life as a field of opposing forces, relationships as variables, and ruminations as something material.

Speeding cars. Dancing lights. The Philippine capital and the night. Burnt and distorted pictures of an unknown young boy. An image of a naked body mapping it in the city. A visual mood piece of the Philippine capital and a study on rhythm, pace, and restlessness. A sensual aural arrangement gathered from recordings of intimate moments with the persona’s visitor—their lover. A nauseous experience in an alienating world, finding peace and home in one’s existence.

Told through episodes, the filmmaker describes the places where they used to go with their late grandfather. As they revisit these places, they notice that the lands are no longer the same.

Told through episodes, the filmmaker describes the places where they used to go with their late grandfather. As they revisit these places, they notice that the lands are no longer the same.

Told through episodes, the filmmaker describes the places where they used to go with their late grandfather. As they revisit these places, they notice that the lands are no longer the same.