Raya Martin

About

Named one of the 50 most important filmmakers under 50 by Cinema Scope, Raya Martin’s films have screened in Cannes, Toronto, Locarno, and New York. His breakthrough feature INDEPENCIA, hailed as a singular mix of Filipino history and Hollywood fantasy, screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. MANILA also screened at Cannes the same year as a Special Screening, marking the first time a Filipino director had two films in the festival. A programme of his works was featured in dOCUMENTA (13), and Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art and Museum of the Moving Image.