Javi Villaluz is an independent filmmaker, writer, producer and editor. His latest film, "As July Ebbed into My August" was selected as apart of The Hechyeomoyeo Film Festival-Exhibition. His short film "Dali's Chime" was screened at the 1st volume of the PUP Filmbayan Open Program. His debut producing work "Mga Batang Lambak" directed by Kim Sta Ana was selected to be apart of the PFIM (Philippine Film Industry Month) Short Film Competition. His passion in film writing and Letterboxd poetry helped him become a fellow at the Sphere Festival’s Young Critics Program and the 3rd iteration of the QCinema Critics Lab under Jason Tan Liwag. He has also written for the Southeast Asian indie magazine MARG1N. His sensibilities have a strong relationship to East Asian cinema, filmic restraint; feeling, with the desire to show the unspoken and mysterious connections we have with other people without the melodrama in-between.
