Dan Villegas

Dan Villegas

Nacimiento : , Quezon City, Philippines

Historia

Dan Villegas is a director and cinematographer. He worked as a cinematographer in music videos for bands such as Parokya ni Edgar, Callalily, Sandwich, Spongecola in his initial years. He won the Balanghai Trophy for Best Cinematography twice from the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival for the films Huling Pasada and his directorial debut film, Mayohan. He won the Best Director award at the 2014 Metro Manila Film Festival for his movie, English Only, Please.

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Dan Villegas

Películas

Kahalili
Bungo
Una joven encuentra trabajo en la granja de una pareja adinerada, pero se le pide que brinde el mejor servicio: servir como madre sustituta. A medida que avanza su embarazo, el creciente apego sexual del marido se intensifica.
The Missing
Producer
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
The Missing
Executive Producer
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
Rookie
Producer
An awkward 6-footer teen is forced to learn and play volleyball half-heartedly when the Catholic school she transferred to did not have a basketball team. Everything changes when she meets their star player.
Kitty K7
Producer
After her boyfriend breaks up with her, Hana, an underpaid graphic artist, reinvents herself as Kitty K-7, the newest camgirl of the alter world.
i get so sad sometimes
Executive Producer
In the small town of Pagadian, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.
Zack Tabudlo: Episode
Producer
A collection of OPM singer-songwriter Zack Tabudlo's most personal experiences. Those experiences are put into stories, stories put into songs, and songs brought to life through a series of fourteen music videos with different narratives about love, heartbreak, happiness, and loneliness. Collectively, these are narratives that demand the viewer to feel, to confront, and to heal.
Zack Tabudlo: Episode
Director
A collection of OPM singer-songwriter Zack Tabudlo's most personal experiences. Those experiences are put into stories, stories put into songs, and songs brought to life through a series of fourteen music videos with different narratives about love, heartbreak, happiness, and loneliness. Collectively, these are narratives that demand the viewer to feel, to confront, and to heal.
Fan Girl
Producer
A starstruck girl sneaks into an actor’s house and discovers a horrifying truth about her idol.
Lucid
Producer
A young woman who leads a lonely, mundane existence in the real world but who has the perfect life in her lucid dreams which she can somehow control, meets a mysterious stranger who challenges her to turn her dream life into something a bit more adventurous. Then her dreams become more real than her reality and the line between the two starts to blur.
Cuddle Weather
Producer
Después de darse cuenta de que las prostitutas no tienen derecho a la mejor parte de hacer el amor, dos trabajadoras sexuales forman una relación loca como "parejas de abrazos" solo para darse cuenta de que quieren algo más.
Alone/Together
Producer
Christine an Art Studies major student at University of the Philippines Diliman a smart and very ambitious who is in a relationship with a Biology student at University of Santo Tomas, Raf a very total opposite character of Christine.
Heaven's Waiting
Producer
Lisang’s soul is trapped in purgatory due to her bad behavior. Once again, her name is picked and reconsidered. Will she be able to make it this time?
Heaven's Waiting
Director
Lisang’s soul is trapped in purgatory due to her bad behavior. Once again, her name is picked and reconsidered. Will she be able to make it this time?
Exes Baggage
Director
After a chance encounter, Pia and Nix instantly hit it off. Natural conversations eventually develop into deep attraction. Despite their wounds from previous relationships, both decide to take a chance on each other. But when their love blossoms into a relationship, their differences will test their love and will make them question: Are they ready for love when they're still carrying baggage from their past?
Never Not Love You
Producer
It tells the story of young lovers who tries to build a life together until career opportunities sends them to a different country where their relationship will be tested.
All of You
Screenplay
It’s time to get kilig to the bones with Jennylyn Mercado and Derek Ramsey who play to strangers who met, fell in love fast, and have to decide after three years where their relationship is really going. Will they give up on love or continue to make it last? All of You is sure to make you fall in love over and over again.
All of You
Story
It’s time to get kilig to the bones with Jennylyn Mercado and Derek Ramsey who play to strangers who met, fell in love fast, and have to decide after three years where their relationship is really going. Will they give up on love or continue to make it last? All of You is sure to make you fall in love over and over again.
All of You
Director
It’s time to get kilig to the bones with Jennylyn Mercado and Derek Ramsey who play to strangers who met, fell in love fast, and have to decide after three years where their relationship is really going. Will they give up on love or continue to make it last? All of You is sure to make you fall in love over and over again.
Changing Partners
Producer
The love story, shown through the perspective of different genders, paints how a real relationship works. It eschews the narrative for emotions and established that love knows no gender when it pains or soothes, when it hurts and heals.
Changing Partners
Director
The love story, shown through the perspective of different genders, paints how a real relationship works. It eschews the narrative for emotions and established that love knows no gender when it pains or soothes, when it hurts and heals.
Luck at First $ight
Director
Joma believes that a "life charm" would help him win money for his debts. He then accidentally meets Diane who gives him luck after they’ve been close to each other. Everything goes well for both of them until they discover their luck will disappear if one of them falls for the other.
Ilawod
Director
A story of a family's breakdown in the midst of a demonic attack. Dennis, a reporter, accidentally invites the ilawod which is a water spirit into his home where it attaches to his son, Ben.
How to Be Yours
Story
A story about two people who met and fell in love. Niño, a sales agent who's bent on attaining stability and Anj, a self-taught cook who dreams of working in a high-end restaurant someday.
How to Be Yours
Director
A story about two people who met and fell in love. Niño, a sales agent who's bent on attaining stability and Anj, a self-taught cook who dreams of working in a high-end restaurant someday.
My Candidate
Creative Producer
A promising young politician who’s running for the senate. He then meets a female spin doctor who helps in orchestrating his campaign and giving him a new image. The first choice to play his leading lady is Jennylyn Mercado, since they’ve already proven that they have good chemistry together.
Always Be My Maybe
Director
Una artista de maquillaje, que acaba de sufrir una ruptura sentimental, comienza a desgana una relación con un rico playboy.
#WalangForever
Director
Mia, a celebrated writer of romantic-comedy films, is at a turning point in her life which makes it difficult for her to believe that love could last. Everything comes to a head when Ethan returns, only for her to find out that he has become a cynic of lasting love because she broke his heart.
The Breakup Playlist
Cinematography
Una aspirante a cantante profesional y un cantante de rock colaboran en una canción y comienzan a desarrollar sentimientos el uno por el otro.
The Breakup Playlist
Director
Una aspirante a cantante profesional y un cantante de rock colaboran en una canción y comienzan a desarrollar sentimientos el uno por el otro.
Crazy Beautiful You
Cinematography
A bad girl and a province boy found love in the state of being broken and in the process of healing.
English Only, Please
Director of Photography
A Filipino-American man hires a translator to help translate a letter he wrote for the woman that broke his heart.
English Only, Please
Writer
A Filipino-American man hires a translator to help translate a letter he wrote for the woman that broke his heart.
English Only, Please
Director
A Filipino-American man hires a translator to help translate a letter he wrote for the woman that broke his heart.
Relaks, It's Just Pag-ibig
Cinematography
Bold Sari enlists with Josh, a young man whom she barely met. They set from Metro Manila to Leyte to find the owner of a letter she found and see the fulfillment of its vow. They discover that the journey is just as relevant as their goal.
That Thing Called Tadhana
Producer
A woman struggling to meet airline baggage requirements meets a man who comes to her aid. They form a friendship that helps them mend each other's hearts.
Beauty in a Bottle
Cinematography
The lives of three women change when a new beauty product arrives.
She's Dating the Gangster
Cinematography
Seventeen-year-old Athena Dizon unwittingly plays a trick on resident heartthrob and bad boy Kenji de los Reyes. All of a sudden, she finds herself pretending to be his girlfriend to make an ex jealous; however, she falls in love with him.
Bride for RENT
Cinematography
On the eve of his 25th birthday, the day he’s set to receive money from his trust fund, Rocco (Xian Lim) parties, gets drunk and loses all his money on a poker match. His dilemma: He has to produce the amount, otherwise he will lose the client he needs to defeat his father’s TV commercial production company. Meanwhile, Rocky (Kim Chiu) also needs money to pay the rent, otherwise her family will be homeless. There’s only one way for Rocco to be able to get money from his trust fund: Fulfill the conditions set by his grandmother and that is to get married. Rocky agrees to act as Rocco’s pseudo wife in exchange for a “talent fee.” They seal the deal. As they live like a married couple, Rocco and Rocky face one problem after another, forcing them with no alternative but to reconcile their differences and work with each other. Complication arises when they start to feel for each other, with their bond getting closer.
The Mascot
Director of Photography
A disgruntled fast food worker finds himself stuck inside his mascot costume.
She's The One
Director of Photography
A television hosts wakes up to her true desires when his best friend's video goes viral.
Quick Change
Cinematography
Dorina is a transsexual woman. She’s got herself a flourishing career, albeit in an illegal cosmetic surgery business. She is a mother figure to Hero, her eight year old nephew, and a devoted wife to Uno. Between her job and her family, Dorina feels that she is one lucky woman. Until Uno falls in love.
ÜnOfficially Yours
Cinematography
Macky Galvez is a depressed young man contemplating why he had several failed relationships. Galvez meets Ces Bricenio, a modern-day woman who is afraid of commitment.
Mayohan
Director
May is the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. In Infanta, Quezon, locals turn each of the 31 days of May into a charming honor not only to celebrate good harvest in their agricultural setting, but also to pay tribute to the virginal virtues of the Mayohan. Every month of May, a padasal or series of novenas commences to mark the beginning of Mayohan. This will culminate in a Pasayaw or Tapusan in every purok of each barangay. A system of ambagan or donation ensues for the festivities to take place.
Padyak
Cinematography
Noel is a young man who puts his dreams of college on hold to take over his father's pedicab route. While his mother constantly tells him that luck will eventually save them, Noel tries to save up what meager earnings he gets. But his passengers often take advantage of his naivete, leaving him with little to show for his suffering. To make things worse, the people around him seem to be falling into tragedy after another, making him question his purpose in life.
Still Life
Cinematography
A painter goes on an exile after finding out he has Guillain Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder that prevents him from painting.
Numbalikdiwa
Cinematography
Mystery surrounds all the characters and seemingly ordinary events become suspenseful and thrilling as the fate of two souls forever intertwined, affect destiny, change life… cause death.
Grandma's little angel
Director
When things go from bad to worse, Grandma Linda is forced to close her shop and worries about how she's going to tell her granddaughter. But instead of being sad, her little angel says she will bring her grandmother's smile back.
Boldstar
Producer
A wild celebrity sex tape has leaked and it’s starring ex-sexy star Ginger Paloma. Now living in a destitute tenement with two kids, it’s finally her second wind at fame and fortune - until the real star of the sex video comes out. Majesty Zamora is younger and fresher, and she’s here to claim the fame that’s rightfully hers. Not willing to let go of this new life, Ginger gets a brilliant idea.She makes a new sex tape.