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Directed by San-San Onglatco
  • 2023
  • 4.53 mins
  • San Diego premiere
The Mercado household is busy with last minute preparations for a big gathering. Boyet, the youngest child, awaits his father’s arrival and disrupts the household. After Boyet gets into a fight with his sister, his mother steps in. He realizes that he can no longer postpone the inevitable.

San-San Onglatco is a Los Angeles based Filipinx-Chinese filmmaker who grew up in the Philippines. She is a 2021 Sundance Uprise Grantee and a 2022 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow. After over a decade working in the industry as producer and line producer, she decided to focus on directing. She graduated with an MFA from the AFI Conservatory’s Directing Program. Also a writer, she holds a Certificate in Screenwriting from UCLA. In 2007, she graduated from the prestigious Ateneo de Manila University with a B.A. in Literature (English).
Onglatco is an advocate for amplifying underrepresented voices both in front and behind the camera. She gravitates towards stories about the human connection within a sociopolitical context, with an emphasis on the immigrant experience and the Filipino/a/x diaspora.

Plays in

Shorts Program II – Scenes from Home

Scenes from Home takes us to the familiar but often complicated dynamic within our own households or homeland.

Dates & Times

Past