Maki Makilan is a Negros Occidental-born filmmaker based in Quezon City, Philippines. A recent graduate in film from the University of the Philippines Film Institute. Her film FOUR YEARS AFTER won several awards including Best Picture at the 2022 UP Film Institute’s Black Beret. It was also curated for the Cinemata Visions: Lived Lives in the Present Struggle.

As a queer and immigrant filmmaker, her works interrogate the politics of the personal and the sense of self, proposing and projecting possibilities in multiple spaces, pasts, and futures. Maki currently works as a cinematographer for independent film productions and works on her own independent projects as writer and director.