Martika Ramirez Escobar

A coming-of-age diary of “Leonor Will Never Die”.

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Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

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A woman tries to write a song. She looks for the right words and melody in places and through people. Through a hand-drawn map from a woman thrice her age, she finds people who have found what she is looking for. They tell her about how they found them. She listens, then she sings. We hear not a song, but a cry for a sing-along.

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A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.

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Kints and Charles have been together for almost a decade. One day, Kints wakes up and discovers that her lover has changed, literally. Although troubled at first, she eventually understands that what happened is a natural phenomenon. Through this, she is reminded that people change all the time and love can change people.

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A short documentary about village residents and their vegetable gardens set in the community that started urban farming in metropolitan Manila. It talks about its benefits, their successes in promoting it across other cities and abroad, and the growing awareness of Filipino citizens to sustainable living.

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A portrait of a family of Overseas Filipino Workers seen through the objects in their home.

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Memories shot from an iPhone to 往事只能回味 by You Ya.

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A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology "Anatomiya ng Pag-Ibig."

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A 12-act anthology film about the lives of several people whose love stories take tragic turns as they try to fill in the void in their respective lives.

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“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.

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Film Dindo, the son of a film editor in the 1970s, revisits the old workspace of his father and finds himself talking with the characters of a film.

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A short film written and directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar.

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A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.

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Martika Escobar's second feature film will deal with three Filipino sea legends, exploring the various types of paper maps, the sea, and the existence of time.

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Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

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A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.

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Longing for love and the promise of a better life, a grandmother finds herself swept into an unexpected online romance that challenges her sense of worth, family, and the dreams she refuses to let go of.

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Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.

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When an ongoing apocalypse halts the production of Gabby's new film, she escapes to see her artist friend Tona in La Union, a former booming beach town and strategic site for a US military base.

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A coming-of-age diary of “Leonor Will Never Die”.

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In the cramped heat of a thrift shop in Cubao, the air is thick with the unspoken desires of Jessa and Candy. But when a foreigner arrives with the promise of America, their lives are led astray.

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Grief-striken in urban poor’s hell, a child eager for viral fame and his beautiful, terminal-ill brother embark on a rescue mission to take back a beloved family jeepney in order to survive.

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