Erik Manalo

Movies

Keys to the Heart
Production Design
Troubled and alone, a boxer moves in with his long-lost mother and autistic pianist brother — but must fit in with a family he hasn't known for years.
Ikaw
Production Design
Manila-based real estate broker Dee returns to Bulusan, Sorsogon, for her grandmother Dulce’s 80th birthday. She re-acquaints with past schoolmate Edong, a seemingly unambitious and simple-minded coconut farmer. While starting at the wrong foot, they soon get to know each other more. Their mutual admiration gradually turns into love.
Izla
Production Design
Two brothers accompany a group of vloggers on their search for a mythical island. But when they find it, they uncover one sinister secret after another.
A Faraway Land
Production Design
In the Faroe Islands, a married woman meets a reporter filming a documentary on overseas Filipino workers, which soon sparks a complicated love story.
Nuuk
Production Design
Elaisa is a middle-aged Filipino widow who lives in Nuuk with her rebellious adult son Karl. She meets Mark Alvarez, a visiting Filipino seaman. He is friendly and caring. But a blizzard is threatening to cause more havoc in her life.
Indak
Production Design
This song-and-dance musical follows the journey of an island girl with a natural gift for dancing as she navigates through life in the city to follow her dreams and find love along the way.
Through Night and Day
Production Design
It follows Ben and Jen whose relationship is put to test as they embark on a trip of a lifetime to Jen's lifelong dream destination Iceland.
Ang Pagsanib kay Leah Dela Cruz
Production Design
A lady cop who moves into a small town gets drawn to a case that involves a girl that's possessed by an evil spirit.
Saving Sally
Production Design
Marty is an aspiring comic-book artist who is secretly in love with his best friend, Sally, the gadget inventor. Like every love story, there are complications: Sally has monsters for parents and a literal dick for a boyfriend, while Marty has the innate ability to do nothing about everything despite his vivid fantasies of defending the love of his life from the big bad world.
Saving Sally
Sleeping Comic Shop Guy
Marty is an aspiring comic-book artist who is secretly in love with his best friend, Sally, the gadget inventor. Like every love story, there are complications: Sally has monsters for parents and a literal dick for a boyfriend, while Marty has the innate ability to do nothing about everything despite his vivid fantasies of defending the love of his life from the big bad world.
Tuhog
Production Design
Due to a road rage incident between two buses, an accident occurs which puts the lives of its passengers in jeopardy. But the ones greatly affected by such event are a middle-aged woman named Fiesta, an old and retired family patriarch Tonio, and a lad named Caloy. These three people are pierced through a single steel bar – a dangerous situation that even their doctors find hard to solve. But even before this unfortunate circumstance, these three have their share of ill-fated lives.
Crying Ladies
Art Direction
Three working-class Manila women — Stella, Ailing and Choleng — are hired as paid mourners at a traditional Chinese funeral.