Baradiya

Film

  • Short Film

An indigenous trans woman grapples with becoming a Babaylan, a Filipino queer shaman.

The back of a figure looking towards mountains.

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Director Profile

Miko Reyes

Miko Reyes (he/him) is a filmmaker whose work is heavily influenced by his dance background. Having worked on fashion films, music videos, and brand advertisements, he intends to inject his unique understanding of motion and musicality into his films.

Director Profile

David Loughran

David (he/they) is an art curator working in the intersections of queerness, spirituality and ecology. In 2021 he co-founded Emerging Islands, a coastal art residency in La Union, Philippines working to create interdisciplinary stories of ecology and the archipelago, rooted in community experience.

Director Profile

Gab Mejia

Gab Mejia (he/they) is a queer Filipino photographer, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, environmental engineer, and National Geographic Explorer. Born and raised by the Philippine archipelago, he explores and weaves the different fabrics of visual storytelling, environmental design, and ecology through the arts, photography, poetics, and participatory research.

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Antonio Lantong Dagoc Jr.

Antonio Lantong Dagoc Jr. (them) is the head babaylan (indigenous shaman) of the Talaandig-Manobo indigenous community and by status, spiritual leader of the entire province of Bukidnon. He is also lead director and performer for Kulahi Pangantucan Performing Arts, an indigenous youth group telling old-new stories of their community’s history and traditions.