Martika Ramirez Escobar

Martika Ramirez Escobar

Historia

Martika Ramirez Escobar is a filmmaker-cinematographer based in Manila. Most of her works are reflections on her relationship with cinema. After she graduated with honors from the University of the Philippines, her thesis film competed at the 19th Busan International Film Festival. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents Tokyo, Asian Film Academy, and is a recipient of the Purin Pictures Film Fund.

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Martika Ramirez Escobar

Películas

A Catholic Schoolgirl
Director of Photography
A 15-year-old A-student defies the views of her all-girls Catholic school as she confronts her feelings for a school nun.
Leonor Will Never Die
Executive Producer
La ficción y la realidad se difuminan cuando Leonor, una directora de cine jubilada, entra en coma después de que un televisor le caiga en la cabeza, lo que la obliga a convertirse en la heroína de acción de su guion inacabado.
Leonor Will Never Die
Screenplay
La ficción y la realidad se difuminan cuando Leonor, una directora de cine jubilada, entra en coma después de que un televisor le caiga en la cabeza, lo que la obliga a convertirse en la heroína de acción de su guion inacabado.
Leonor Will Never Die
Director
La ficción y la realidad se difuminan cuando Leonor, una directora de cine jubilada, entra en coma después de que un televisor le caiga en la cabeza, lo que la obliga a convertirse en la heroína de acción de su guion inacabado.
The Tigers of Infanta
Director of Photography
Henry
Cinematography
Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury.
Zack Tabudlo: Episode
Director of Photography
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.
Songs Happen Like Refrains in a Revolution
Director
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.
Don’t worry, we still hear you
Editor
A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.
Don’t worry, we still hear you
Director of Photography
A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.
Don’t worry, we still hear you
Director
A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.
Don’t worry, we still hear you
A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco’s wish list for Philippine Cinema.
Living Things
Writer
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.
Living Things
Director
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.
People and Plants
Editor
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.
People and Plants
Cinematography
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.
People and Plants
Director
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.
Quadrilaterals
Writer
A portrait of a family of Overseas Filipino Workers seen through the objects in their home.
Quadrilaterals
Director
A portrait of a family of Overseas Filipino Workers seen through the objects in their home.
Processions
Director of Photography
The news of Patricia’s sudden death disrupts the lives of her friends. After several years apart, they have to meet back together to pay their last respects to their dearly departed.
Fish Out of Water
Cinematography
Minjae is a Korean-Filipino teenager who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood. His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philippines one winter day.
Only Recollection of Past Events
Director of Photography
Memories shot from an iPhone to 往事只能回味 by You Ya.
Only Recollection of Past Events
Editor
Memories shot from an iPhone to 往事只能回味 by You Ya.
Only Recollection of Past Events
Director
Memories shot from an iPhone to 往事只能回味 by You Ya.
If People Such as We Cease to Exist
Cinematography
A grieving widow attempts to find the missing piece of her husband's remains.
Tisoy
Writer
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."
Tisoy
Director of Photography
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."
Tisoy
Director
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."
Anatomy of Love
Director
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.
Where's Grandpa Mê?
Cinematography
A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.
Stone Heart
Editor
“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.
Stone Heart
Executive Producer
“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.
Stone Heart
Director
“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.
Stone Heart
Writer
“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.
Dindo
Director
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.
Arrows
Writer
A short film written and directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar.
Arrows
Director of Photography
A short film written and directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar.
Arrows
Director
A short film written and directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar.
Hando
Editor
A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.
Hando
Director
A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.
Turog
Director of Photography
While haunted by memories of a tragic event, a stubborn writer unwittingly unleashes a familiar presence that will stop at nothing to fulfill what it was summoned to do.