
Directing
Emmanuel Pamaylaon
Born 2005-10-03 · Nabunturan, Davao De Oro
EMMANUEL PAMAYLAON (b. 2005) is a student filmmaker currently pursuing a BA Communication and Media Arts at the University of the Philippines Mindanao. He is the President of UP Salida, where he also served as the Festival Director for Salida Fest ’25, and is one of the regional staff writers for SINEGANG.ph. His work explores themes of queerness, memory, and resistance, drawing from personal experience and the broader cultural and political landscape of his region. His film Hindi Nawawala Sa Pagkawala ang mga Alaala recently won the Gold Award for the Narrative Category and the Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan De Guia Kapwa Award by National Artist Kidlat Tahimik at the 2026 Montañosa Film Festival in Baguio City. Continuing to hone his craft, he was also named a fellow of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and the Filipino Screenwriters Guild (FSG) Regional Screenwriting Workshop in Malolos, Bulacan.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRA young man returns to his storm-ravaged hometown and confronts fragments of his younger self in the empty lot where his home once stood, forcing him to face what remains when nothing—and no one—is ever fully recovered.
Where the Drifting Flight Comes to Rest
2026
NRA young man returns to his storm-ravaged hometown and confronts fragments of his younger self in the empty lot where his home once stood, forcing him to face what remains when nothing—and no one—is ever fully recovered.
Where the Drifting Flight Comes to Rest
2026
NRFresca aspires to live with the dream of becoming a police officer and achieving a better life after losing her youth to extreme poverty. Fate unexpectedly makes a fool out of her when the dreams she craved the most led to her demise in the dark and cruel reality of the world in which she lives.
Tumba Lata
2024
NRIn a mist-shrouded mountain range, two young recordists search fragments of memory buried in static, silence, and soil. As they gather stories erased by conflict, an intimate resistance takes shape: quiet, tender, and defiant in the face of forgetting.
Memories Don't End in Disappearance
2026
NRIn a mist-shrouded mountain range, two young recordists search fragments of memory buried in static, silence, and soil. As they gather stories erased by conflict, an intimate resistance takes shape: quiet, tender, and defiant in the face of forgetting.
Memories Don't End in Disappearance
2026

