A recipient of the CCP Thirteen Artists Awards, Raya Martin is the first Filipino director to screen two films – breakthrough film Independencia in Un Certain Regard section, and urban noir Manila in the Special Screening section – at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. His notable works include: five-hour experimental film Now Showing, atmospheric horror How to Disappear Completely, and the co-directed meta-existentialist La última película filmed in Mexico. His films have been screened in various festivals and exhibited in dOCUMENTA (13), Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Moving Image, the Korean Film Archive, and the Asian Film Archive. He was a resident of the Cannes Cinéfondation and the Berlinale Residency programs.
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