Directing
Kayla Abuda Galang
Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines
Kayla Abuda Galang is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, drawing from the humor and details of her communities, surroundings, memory, and the television that raised her. Her short film, When You Left Me On That Boulevard, won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, received the Ani ng Dangal from the National Commission for Culture and Arts of the Philippines, and joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a voting member in the Short Films Branch. She works as a video producer at the University of Texas.
Acting credits
7.0After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.
Rent Free
2024
6.0In this lesson, Kayla teaches you Tagalog, the language of her homeland.
Learning Tagalog with Kayla
2021
Behind the camera
NRNarrated by four adult siblings, 'Papa' is an observational portrait of an aging Filipino patriarch and his declining health.
Papa
2013
NRLibrary worker Daniel catalogs an assortment of forgotten objects left in returned books.
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks
2025
NRLibrary worker Daniel catalogs an assortment of forgotten objects left in returned books.
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks
2025
6.0In this lesson, Kayla teaches you Tagalog, the language of her homeland.
Learning Tagalog with Kayla
2021
6.0In this lesson, Kayla teaches you Tagalog, the language of her homeland.
Learning Tagalog with Kayla
2021
NRJoan delivers an overzealous apology in a series of voicemails.
Joan On The Phone
2016
NRJoan delivers an overzealous apology in a series of voicemails.
Joan On The Phone
2016
6.8Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their Auntie Pinky’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
When You Left Me on That Boulevard
2023
6.8Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their Auntie Pinky’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
When You Left Me on That Boulevard
2023